Silicon Valley techpreneur, Mark Zuckerberg, has said that
he was not worried about the money lost or the number of users who migrated to
other social media platforms during a seven-hour outage of his services on
Monday.
Zuckerberg, who made this known in a Facebook post late
Tuesday, said he was rather concerned about those who rely on his products to
connect with friends and family.
About three billion
social media users regained access to their online community late Monday as
Facebook-owned services, WhatsApp and Instagram, came back online after the
record seven-hour outage.
With Monday’s outage of his apps, Zuckerberg’s personal
wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion, knocking him down a notch on the list
of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages
took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline, according to Bloomberg.
The stock slide on Monday sent Zuckerberg’s worth down to
$120.9 billion, dropping him below Bill Gates to No. 5 on the Bloomberg
Billionaires Index. He’s lost about $19 billion of wealth since September 13,
when he was worth nearly $140 billion, according to the index.
But the big tech founder wrote, “The SEV that took down all
our services yesterday (Monday) was the worst outage we’ve had in years.
“We’ve spent the past
24 hours debriefing how we can strengthen our systems against this kind of
failure. This was also a reminder of how much our work matters to people.
“The deeper concern with an outage like this isn’t how many
people switch to competitive services or how much money we lose, but what it
means for the people who rely on our services to communicate with loved ones, run
their businesses, or support their communities.”
Also, Zuckerberg said the allegations of a Whistleblower
against Facebook services are untrue and do not depict Facebook and its sister
platforms.
He wrote, “I’m sure many of you have found the recent coverage
hard to read because it just doesn’t reflect the company we know. We care
deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health. It’s difficult
to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives. At the most basic
level, I think most of us just don’t recognize the false picture of the company
that is being painted.”
“The argument that we deliberately push content that makes
people angry for profit is deeply illogical. We make money from ads, and
advertisers consistently tell us they don’t want their ads next to harmful or
angry content. And I don’t know any tech company that sets out to build
products that make people angry or depressed. The moral, business and product
incentives all point in the opposite direction,” he added.
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