Both experts from different companies and students from high schools and colleges showed dissatisfaction on social media due to the bad timing on a busy Monday. Some professors might have wondered ’’Is Google Meet down for good today?’’, but had shifted towards WhatsApp. Some business teams resorted to phone calls.
While some people were annoyed about the Google Meet outage, due to important business meetings or work-related conferences, others showed relief and expressed happiness.
A couple of users posted on X GIFs from the TV show, ’’The Office’’ celebrating the Google Meet down situation: ’’Google Meet is down, I repeat, Google Meet is down’’.
Another person made a post, using a funny GIF: ’’Google Meet crashed right in the middle of my meeting’’.
In addition, an X user made an ironic and amusing remark, attaching a screenshot with the information regarding the Google Meet outage: “Attention - Google Meet is down. Time to catch up on emails or go touch grass’’.
Thanks to the Down Detector, users acknowledge that they weren’t the only ones doubting if it ’’was Google Meet down?’’.
Moreover, the internet communities united and tried to give some answers to the ’’Is Google Meet down?’’ issue and some insights that people can try to improve their experience in situations like this one.
For example, some suggest either refreshing the browser cache or trying private browsing, utilizing incognito mode. Before Google solved the problem, the media platforms were full of hashtags, with the most common one being the #GoogleMeetDown, which became a widespread trend.
