Facebook and Instagram suffered from widespread outages for hours on Friday before the service began to come back online.
Outage reports spiked throughout the morning on the third-party website DownDetector.com before the disruption appeared to ease.
"We're aware people are currently having trouble accessing our services," Meta's communication director, Andy Stone, said in a 10:11 a.m. ET post on X. "We're working on it."
At the time, Meta's systems dashboard page also showed "high disruptions" for its Facebook Ads Manager, Messenger API, Messenger platform, and WhatsApp Business Platform.
Just before noon EST, Stone said in another update: "We're coming back, though it may take a bit of time for everything to be fully back to normal."
Users were quick to take to X to complain about the disruptions amid the outage.
"This is the third time Facebook has gone down this week. Every time, it takes Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger down with it," one user said.
Another added, "Anybody else just been logged out of Facebook messenger and can't log back in? Unknown error."
FACEBOOK IS DOWN
INSTAGRAM IS DOWN
META ADS MANAGER IS DOWN
QUICK EVERYONE GO OUTSIDE AND TOUCH GRASS
Others took the opportunity to make light of the moment.
"QUICK EVERYONE GO OUTSIDE AND TOUCH GRASS," user Peter Czepiga said.
Then there were the memes. "Everyone's yearly instagram down drill to X," one user shared with a GIF of a crowd.
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