BLACKOUT BEHAVIOR WHEN SITES GO DOWN

摘要

it's no secret that Silicon Valley has monopolized our time: The average adult spends 24 hours per week online. It's tempting to imagine what we might do with that time if we weren't thumbing through Face-book photos, retweeting GIFs, or spiraling down YouTube rabbit holes. Turns out we can get a glimpse into that alternative reality from a rare online event-website outages caused by technical problems. What happens when Instagram glitches or Slack stalls, and we snap out of our Very Online existence? Spoiler: Research shows that we don't log off. We just scurry off to different (sometimes darker) corners of the web.