Several Google services from Hangouts to Gmail Chat went down Monday morning, causing some stress — as well as better productivity — for those that rely on the tools to communicate.
The Google Apps Status Dashboard shows “service disruption” for Hangouts, Google Spreadsheets and Google Talk, all of which have been down for the past hour or so.
The outage is affecting people in interesting ways and seems to be increasing the amount work being done on Monday for some:
https://twitter.com/jaredbkeller/status/445597904301199360
https://twitter.com/Destron_/status/445611481363525632
https://twitter.com/BeccaSayre/status/445610649654013952
For others, Google’s hiccup is actually making life difficult at the office:
https://twitter.com/EmilyNBrock/status/445613024783912961
https://twitter.com/BrotherMagneto/status/445596928504385536
People are also resorting to face-to-face conversation:
https://twitter.com/ImranGarda/status/445608955272630272
Gmail, which went down for several minutes in January, appears to be working just fine.
For people that absolutely need a way to chat online, there’s always the legendary — at least for my fellow 20-somethings — AOL Instant Messenger and its classic sound effects.