Hilarity and jokes after Facebook malfunction: ‘Fortunately there are books and beer’ | Inland

One Dutchman became impatient, while others saw great advantages. The outage inspired large groups of pranksters.

A selection of the opinions on Twitter, which as one of the major platforms still worked. “Luckily there are books and beer.”

For some people, the outage was confrontational…

The ‘old-fashioned’ text message or telephone conversation was rediscovered by many Dutch people…

Twitter itself also saw a huge surge on its own platform and welcomed everyone.

Comedian Peter Pannekoek:

Useless?

Why are you texting?

And then..

Messaging service Signal was an alternative for some.

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