Trying to load Facebook and Instagram? You may have to wait a while...

Are you trying to log into Facebook on your phone or desktop? You might have to wait a while because it appears to be down for many users.

Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, is also displaying a "failed to load" message for some users when trying to upload photos to the platform.

According to Facebook (for developers), this is a partial outage.

Users took to Twitter to express their concern (but mainly sarcasm).

Facebook has an outage. Will the world survive?

What did you do when Facebook, Instagram and Messenger went offline Wednesday?

Did you feel that? Are your nerves still a little frayed? Can you get that photo of your recent trip to Maui posted?

What? Did you think we were talking about an earthquake rattling the region? Oh, how silly of you!

No, we meant the outage that hit Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger on Wednesday morning. Reports circulated that the social network’s popular sites were out around the world, and millions of people didn’t know what to do with the comments they were about to post about, say, the latest weirdness from Florida, their best friend’s adorable baby/puppy/cat/muscle car, or the college entry exam scandal.

There was no immediate word if the Facebook issues resulted in people resorting to outrageous communication methods like actually speaking face-to-face with one another. But Twitter was up — and thankfully, people could discuss the horrible turn their lives had taken via the hashtag #facebookdown.

A request to Facebook for comment on its outage — and how the world might make it through the greatest catastrophe since “The Macarena” became a hit song — wasn’t immediately returned. Thus, there was no way of confirming if Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg was furiously refreshing his own page from his compound on Kauai.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/13/facebook-has-an-outage-will-the-world-survive/

Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

Having trouble accessing Facebook or Instagram on Wednesday afternoon? You weren't alone.

The massively popular social network went down early afternoon with issues popping up across Facebook proper, Facebook Messenger and Instagram.

As with nearly every Facebook outage, users headed to Twitter with the hashtag #facebookdown quickly becoming the top trending topic in the United States.

Downdetector.com, which monitors websites, showed the company experiencing issues across a large portion of the U.S. and Europe in addition to issues in other areas in South America and Asia.

Facebook, Facebook Messenger both down. Instagram having issues. WhatsApp seems fine for now. #facebookdown

— Eli Blumenthal (@eliblumenthal) March 13, 2019

It is not immediately clear what caused the Wednesday issue. Some users reported seeing a message saying the site was down for "required maintenance."

"We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement provided to USA TODAY. "We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible."

Facebook-owned WhatsApp did not appear to be immediately impacted by the outage.

https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2019/03/13/facebook-instagram-go-down-around-world-apparent-outage/3152505002/