A recent outage on various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger, shed light on the significant role these platforms play in our lives beyond mere entertainment. While the outage may have seemed like a minor inconvenience, it underscored the fact that social media platforms serve as modern-day mediums for storytelling and community building.
Humans have an innate affinity for stories, using them as a means to connect, understand others, and make sense of the world around them. Social media platforms have become the contemporary spaces where these stories are shared through various forms such as photos, videos, memes, and text threads.
