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Panik Not, your Facebook account is NOT hacked! Yes, you heard that right! Meta’s popular social media services Instagram and Facebook, are down yet again! On Tuesday, March 5, 2024, millions of users around the globe found themselves unable to access Facebook and Instagram due to a significant outage. While Facebook logged out users, Instagram feeds weren’t refreshing at all!
The Impact of the Outage
This global outage affected not only individual users but also businesses that rely on Facebook and Instagram for marketing. Reports from Downdetector.com indicated over 150,000 reports of Facebook being down and 26,000 reports of Instagram cutting out, making this one of the largest outages for Meta in years.
X Becomes a Meme Ground For Instagram and Facebook Outage
In times of social media blackout, humour becomes the coping mechanism of choice for users worldwide. When Instagram and Facebook were experiencing downtime, users turned the internet into a meme ground faster than you can say “refresh.”
The disruption caused a flurry of activity on X, where users turned to share their reactions and humorously document this situation. #InstagramDown and #FacebookDown trend on X with memes pouring in.
Instagram and Facebook Down Memes
From cheeky Elon Musk digs at Meta to lighthearted jokes about engineers trying to fix the issue, here are some hilarious Instagram and Facebook down memes trending on the internet!
Elon Musk’s Dig On Meta Outage
X founder Elon Musk took a dig at his rival’s Instagram and Facebook’s worldwide outage and posted this on X. (See below!)
While, many users got logged out of their facebook accounts, suspecting a potential hack.
Users after seeing “session expired” and “unexpected error be like…
Engineer Mark to the rescue (LOL) !!
A user @Stonks_IU posted this funny instagram down meme captioning it as: “Facebook and IG employers right now, only X users are allowed to like this tweet ..!!“
Another user said, “This is what happened to Facebook and Instagram.” and posted a funny clip of a model.
FB and Instagram are down… Meanwhile, Mark in India is like…
Elon Musk seeing millions rushing to Twitter (x) after #meta outage be like…
#instagramdown#facebookdown
— Sunny Dass (@sunnydass_) March 5, 2024
When Facebook and Instagram went down
Everyone : pic.twitter.com/KvlOy0fo5z