Social Media
Facebook is Meta's flagship social network with nearly 3 billion monthly users for sharing posts, photos, videos, and messaging via Messenger.
What is Facebook?
Is Facebook down? Facebook is the world's largest social network, founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard students, and now operated by Meta Platforms, Inc. With over 3 billion monthly active users, Facebook reaches nearly 40% of the global population, encompassing personal profiles, Groups (communities of shared interest), Pages (for businesses and public figures), Marketplace (peer-to-peer buying and selling), Facebook Live, Watch (video), and Facebook Messenger. It remains the world's most used social media platform by active user count despite facing increasing competition from younger platforms.
Meta operates Facebook's infrastructure across a network of owned data centres globally, including hyperscale facilities in the US, Europe, and Asia. Facebook's infrastructure handles not only social media traffic but also the broader Meta advertising platform — the revenue engine that powers Facebook, Instagram, and the Audience Network — making its uptime critical to billions of dollars of daily commerce.
Facebook outages are among the most consequential internet service disruptions in existence. The 2021 Facebook outage, which lasted approximately six hours, simultaneously took down Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp and was estimated to cost Meta hundreds of millions of dollars in lost advertising revenue. Searches for "Facebook down", "Facebook not loading", and "is Facebook down" regularly generate tens of millions of queries during major incidents.
Outage.gg aggregates real-time Facebook outage reports from users globally, providing immediate confirmation when a Facebook server outage is confirmed and how broadly it is affecting users across regions.
Common Facebook Problems
Issues users most frequently report when Facebook is having problems.
Messages not sending
Messages appear stuck, fail to deliver, or recipients are not receiving them.
Login & authentication
Unable to sign in, 2FA not working, or being unexpectedly logged out.
Feed & content not loading
Posts, stories, or notifications are not appearing or are failing to refresh.
App & website errors
The app or website returns error pages, crashes, or is completely unreachable.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Facebook outages and server status.
You can check the live Facebook server status at outage.gg/services/facebook. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
Facebook can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/facebook and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
Click the "Notify Me" bell button on the Facebook status page at outage.gg/services/facebook. Create a free account and we will send you an email the moment Facebook comes back online — no app download required.
Many services maintain official status pages with planned maintenance notices. Outage.gg aggregates real-time community-reported outages which often surface faster than official channels.
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