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For those of us who rely on social networks to feed us the latest news, tips and conversations even a little down-time can really shake up your normal routine. I depend on multiple layers of social-nets to keep me plugged into the happenings of the world. Today, I found myself at a loss, confused and a bit dazed. I realize how much I count on functioning info-tubes only when there's a brief interruption of the free-flowing data.

First, my trusted Feedly RSS Reader/ Magazine went down for awhile. Of course, I could just jump back into my gReader but I'm adjusted to the layout, features and connecting tools that Feedly provides me. Reverting back to gReader had me feeling a bit woozy- where am I? How do I get the latest news feeds to sort just the way I'm used to seeing them?

Next up on the wobble wagon was FriendFeed who experienced some down-time. The remarkably stable social aggregator didn't respond to my multiple requests for connection. What kind of a world is this?! Then TinyUrl stopped working, wakoopa wasn't updating my program usage, what next? I kept checking my net connection just to make sure I was still up and running. Within just a few moments, things started to return to normal, phweeh. I started to breath normally, pulse rate stabilizing. Endorphins still racing through my body, I realized that these little outages remind us of how reliable these new-fangled net tools are. The "uptime" of the aforementioned services are far greater than cable-tv, cellphones and even the California Power-Grid.

I have come to expect an "always-on-always-working" networld. This isn't my fault- it's the engineers, programmers and managers of these social-tools who have done such a great job with reliability, that I couldn't imagine my world without them. Maybe this was an orchestrated wake-up call by these services to remind us of how good they are at what they do.

I'm just glad things are returning to normal, or at least normal for this avid social-net user.

msw