It’s quick to load, has end-to-end encryption by default and is easy to use – the result of which is that there is likely a group chat made for every aspect of your life, causing potentially hundreds of notifications per day, all competing for your time and attention.īut with evidence to suggest social media and digital apps like WhatsApp are contributing factors in the rise of mental health issues, are people becoming tired of a digital world that never sleeps?Įspecially in this lockdown era of digital-only interaction, group chats have become hubs of continuous activity. With 1.5 billion global users and 29 million messages sent every minute, WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world.
The likelihood is, you’re either reading this article on your phone, or it is somewhere within arm’s reach, demanding your attention with social media updates, emails, or the worst culprit of all – WhatsApp notifications. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.We are living in an always-on world. We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.” “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” a spokesperson said. That went up to 36,298 for Facebook, with up to 76% of reports were related to the website while 14% were linked to the app, while a total of 12,144 reported issues with Instagram, the Mirror reported.
More than 20,000 WhatsApp users reported issues using the global instant messaging service from about 4pm UK time. Meanwhile, users are unable to access the smartphone apps and websites of the hugely popular services. JUST IN: We are receiving reports that Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp are down for some users.Īre you experiencing this problem, too? #FacebookDown #MessengerDown #InstagramDown #WhatsAppDown /Rz7AWrlS5O
Problems with the services, which are all owned by Facebook, began around 4:30pm BST (11:30am T), according to online outage trackers. The three platforms have gone down for thousands of users across the globe. Social media giants Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down in a global outage, DownDetector reported on Monday.
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