 The power of Mark on Monday, the 4th of October 2021, the whole world experienced a social media downtime. Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook were down and the world stood still for a bit. Over 4 billion people around the world interact with one or more of these platforms. 4 billion humans all under the messy of one man. The way I see it, the leaders of the future won't be the government. It will be the tech-preneurs that can impact the lives of billions of people with just the click of a button. Are there pros and cons to someone having this much power? Yes of course there are. So let's discuss. One man controlling 4 billion people. Oh my god. Like we don't know. I kept calling my network provider just to find out is anything wrong. I switched off my phone for like 5 times. And that was really insane. People were licking some cards. Switch off your phone. Turn off Wi-Fi. The world literally stood still. Someone drove from one place. It was like 45 minutes to my place because he wanted to connect to Wi-Fi. It was in the network. And I was like it is everywhere. The world stood still for about 6 hours or more. But anyway I love it. I love it right because it revealed how much. A lot of things. It revealed power. It revealed technology dynamics. The importance of technology. Again I mean it reveals how much the value of the solution of to what we are talking about. Not just Nigeria all over the world. This is really amazing. But of course like you said there are downsides to these things. To one man owning this much power. There are downsides to these things. There are downsides to these things. Well to me I am not bothered if one man has it. Because the government has the right to make policies that would control the excesses of one man owning this. The importance of this thing. This is to tell the government of Nigeria that you can't use policies to stifle youth. Allow our youth to thrive. They should take advantage of technologies to do things to shape their own future and thereby develop Nigeria. So the banning of Twitter is one. Imagine what happens that Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp was not working and then the Twitter was banned. You know a lot of us are using these things not just for entertainment. We use this education, business and what have you. So is to teach everyone a lesson that we have to be serious with technology and allow our youth to thrive. Because we can have so many Magsuka Begs in Nigeria. Why can't we develop a Nigerian own app that will be used globally that can have the global relevance. So the government has also supported youth. So apart from even having like global developing our own app locally and then having global relevance. In China, they don't use this product. They don't use this platform. They built their own platform that they use. In India, they started back in 2019 they stopped using all this platform. They have their own platform. So as we are experiencing it some people are still using it but as we are experiencing it it wasn't as bad in those parts of the world because they have their own platform. As this one was down to their own platform using but in Africa, in Nigeria, Kilani, what do we have? What do we have? We were leaking seams and some people were afraid to make like Mak, don't do this one. Please come back. I was cracking my brain like what was I using before this platform? What was I using? I could not remember but I don't know if you... Did you experience it? How was the experience for you? I had to run back to LinkedIn because people were just looking for different ways way out and all that. So while this goes to show that technology is important in our day to day life I mean this is 2021 you cannot be talking against advocating against technology when you are supposed to use it to advance your systems even governments rely on technology even many governments around the world they felt weight that was on Monday right? On Monday it was soon. On Monday they felt the weight so I mean saying that technology is backward it's not good. You have to rethink your policies. Yeah and you know Nigerians did you see the meme about when the world stopped because of social media that is the end time or what did they call this? That the angels are about to drop that's why the world dropped. Stop. Oh my God. That brings me back to the previous conversation around entrepreneurship within entrepreneurship into education right? So when you think about when did Mark really start his journey into technology I mean when he invited four friends I mean three friends into the dormitory and just some people build out and then we have some people that are now co-owners of Facebook and Instagram and Twitter that tells you that the 70 year old or even from 15 year old what are they really learning and I must give kudos to some very tech platforms that are now beginning to teach girls to code teach boys to code and young people we need to get our young people quickly quickly and be there into this whole technology because that's the future if the world could freeze that's the future it's the future I'm sure the relevant government institutions are listening number one first things first the concept of saying is 16 year old under 18 should not have access to same time is backward number two saying that a girl should not use a smartphone because religious reasons is backward and number three please can we just allow our young people to fly like birds that is the only way see the worlds of nations do not rely on beneath this earth's surface it's between the years of the humans means that your brain these technologies is the future of the world it can generate billions of dollars worth of revenue to the government if they would just allow the youth to thrive because if you keep doing the same thing the same old way you get the same results you always get the same old way let's talk about heading cows heading cows from social and so please to another place whereas people are thinking of how to solve global problem from Nigeria can we just allow young people to thrive enable them enable environment enable them we're not even asking for give us the fish create sustainable platforms and then enable us to actually we are creators in Nigeria is a creator how do I know this when we move offshore we really really thrive we thrive so I think we just need that enable an environment to create thought of October has come never for it to show up again it could show up again we are hoping it does we are begging Mr. Ma I'm not against we using this social media platform the fact that we encourage Nigeria to set up the earth I'm not saying to use it I'm saying do your own go global like their own let's have fair competition amongst persons that are technically inclined and we go for the best should in case disciplines again if you have an app in Nigeria doing the same thing you can share with us so that we'll keep communicating but yeah that's all we have time for today on the advocate join us again next week the advocacy continues on our social media platforms on Facebook at plus TV Africa hashtag the advocate and Instagram at plus TV Africa hashtag the advocate NG to catch up with previous broadcast go to plus TV Africa dot com slash the advocate NG don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel plus TV Africa join us next week same time on this station let's keep advocating for a better society