Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Go Down. At the Same Time????

Wednesday, people around the world found out when all three services experienced interruptions throughout the day.

The problems began around 11 a.m. Eastern Time and affected users in countries including the United States, Japan, Australia and Mexico, according to DownDetector, an analytics service that calls itself a weather report for the internet.

Instagram profiles refused to load. Facebook users logged on to empty news feeds, while others could see their friends’ updates but couldn’t like them. And WhatsApp users had trouble sending and receiving messages.

Mr. Zuckerberg who runs Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. Expressed his intentions to change the essential nature of social media. He said he would focus on private and encrypted communications, that users message mostly smaller groups of people they know. Unlike publicly shared posts that are kept as users’ permanent records, the communications could also be deleted after a certain period of time.

The company added that the issues were not the result of a cyberattack.

What would happen if Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp go down at about the same time????