It’s been a long time in preparation, and yet nobody saw it coming.
The Social Media Reboot
For an entire day, all social media sites, from the big companies to the smallest and most obscure forums, are down. And then, they come back just as mysteriously as they left. But not the same. They’re blank.
Every account, every post, every user, every archive, every page, erased without a trace. All of your friends, followers and messages, all gone.
It’s a fresh start, for everybody. A level plane.
I stared at the computer screen, feeling a weird sort of numbness about losing all of my followers, my posts- everything.
But as realization washes over me, a smile forms on my face. “Finally!” I rush to create a new tumblr. With all the accounts wiped clean, I can FINALLY have the url I’ve wanted that has been taken by a vacant account for years.
I type it in, and click enter. Red bubble. “Sorry, it appears someone already has that URL.” What the fuck. How? Already?
Out of curiosity I type in the url. There is only one post:
“i only made this so the person who has been messaging me for the last four years asking for this url cant have it.”
I lean back in my seat. Gotta hand it to them honestly. I can respect that level of petty.
