It's time to imagine a world without Facebook – Mashable

People are considering logging off for good. Should they? Credit: BOB AL-GREEN/ Mashable In early October, Facebook shut down for six hours. No one in the world could access the site, or any of the sites they owned, including Instagram and WhatsApp. And, for a moment, we peered into a potential new world in which Facebook does not exist.Spoiler: It was alright. There were negative effects, of course, like shutting creators and small business owners out of their work, but overall, everything turned out OK. Maybe even better than OK, as it afforded everyone a chance to spend a few hours off of the addictive platforms. Now, more people than ever are considering logging off, possibly for good, including every member of my family besides myself — but only because I have to stay on for work and the Shrek fan theories page. On Reddit, users chalk the mass departures up to everything from the platform being less fun to its harm on democracy. Currently, according to Facebook, more than three billion people use the site every month, and about 2.6 billion people use it daily, which means there are some 400 million people who have accounts but don’t log on every…
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