A number of Popular Social-Networking applications reported that their services were impaired in mainland China, two days after a massive pro-democracy demonstration in Hong Kong on Thursday.
These apps users were unable to access many of the features since Tuesday, which made this the first major service crisis in the country for the companies. The interesting thing is that Line Corp. and Kakao Corp., themselves didn't know what caused these services to be unavailable to users in China.
For more information, please click here: http://online.wsj.com/articles/social-networking-apps-report-service-outages-in-china-1404389056
For all we know, China's government has been blocking a lot of information flows on the internet and even blocking Facebook that we almost all use. As the focus on our blog is social media in mobile apps, it is interesting to see how the purpose of social media could easily be blocked by the government. Perhaps something interesting thing for us to give a little time to think about if the social medias are serving the original purpose or that our freedom of connecting with other people should be ignored like this? What we also should think about is that, not only China, but a lot of news and information are secretly taken down in other countries too. We might as well go back using phones with no internet accessibility?
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