Topics: Facebook, Instagram, News, Technology, Twitter, UK News, US News, Social media
OK guys, the panic is over.
Earlier this afternoon (5 March), Meta suffered a worldwide outage affecting millions.
The outage has since seen Facebook and Instagram users over the globe all saying the same thing after the major social media platform went down.
The chaos first started when Facebook and Instagram users tried to access their accounts only to find they had been logged out and were left completely unable to log back in.
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At the time, Meta acknowledged the issues and said it is 'working on this now'.
"We are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. Our engineering teams are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible," a page on Meta's website explained.
Today's outages were first reported at about 3.30pm and, after around an hour or so, Meta was back up and running but everyone had one question on their minds: "What on earth is my password?"
Many rushed to Reddit and X to share their reactions.
One Reddit user penned: "Great, now I gotta remember my password!"
A second joked: "Hundreds of thousands - 'F*ck, what was my password?'"
"Can’t remember my Facebook password situation right now…" revealed another X user.
A fourth wrote: "Me trying to remember my Facebook password after Facebook logged me out..."
"Meta's back. Now, everyone is trying to remember what their password is," joked someone else, while another chimed in: "I hate Meta now we gotta dig deep in our brains to remember the password we set."
And a sixth piped up: "The real panic starts when your Facebook got signed out and it ask for password and you don’t remember what your password was."
"My Facebook got logged out and it is asking for the password. Me who signed in almost five years ago and trying to remember what my password was," revealed a seventh.
Another echoed: "Facebook has logged me out and I don’t remember my password from 2014."
And, a final X user added: "Meta, am I going I have to remember my password??? Because I definitely don’t."
Meta's social media platform are some of the most popular in the entire world with Facebook having a staggering three billion active users every month.
Meanwhile, Instagram is expected to hit a colossal 1.4 billion worldwide later this year.
Andy Stone, comms at Meta, has since issued a statement explaining the outage: "Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience."
Tyla has previously reached out to Meta for comment on the matter.
