OPINION (FaithWire) – You know how the saying goes: Idle hands are the devil’s workshop. While I think that proverb gives Satan a little too much credit for our bad choices, the principle proved true during the great social media crisis earlier this week, when Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp were offline for several hours. At around 11 a.m. Wednesday, the family of Facebook-owned apps started malfunctioning, according to The Washington Post. As a result, internet users could no longer spend their spare time browsing their social media timelines. They instead chose to turn their attention to pornography.

Because we live in a society desperate for dopamine hits and eager to drown out any encroaching silence, operating for a day without Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp just wasn’t an option. To ease the pain of our No. 1 addiction being yanked away from us, we turned to something else: deflated internet users flocked to Pornhub midweek. The smut website, which garners about 90 million users every single day, saw an 11 percent spike in traffic right after the Facebook outages started. Viewing dropped in the afternoon hours, presumably because people were back to work, but shot up by 19 percent in the evening compared to the average day. READ MORE


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