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    Facebook And Instagram Went Down, And Everyone Freaked The Hell Out

    The great social media meltdown of 2015.

    Facebook and Instagram both crashed around 6am GMT.

    Facebook and Instagram appear to be down. Let us all pray.

    Facebook was offline, on the web and via the app, for just over an hour.

    Map shows extent of Facebook outage. Looks like a big chunk of U.S. affected #facebookdown

    It was pretty intense.

    Facebook users are roaming the streets in tears, shoving photos of themselves in people's faces and screaming 'DO YOU LIKE THIS? DO YOU??'

    Meanwhile, at Facebook and Instagram...

    It's the first time Facebook has crashed since September 2014, when the social network went down twice in one month.

    Tinder went down too.

    Facebook, Instagram and Tinder are down. Twitter, let us go, we will finally be free.

    The world's news outlets rushed to report this important news.

    Thankfully, everyone on the internet kept a sense of perspective and in no way sensationalised the situation.

    Facebook and Tinder are down. So this is what the apocalypse looks like.

    Facebook is down,instagram is down, blizzard is hitting the east coast are these signs of the apocalypse?

    Facebook is down, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are coming!. #FacebookDown

    "@abcnews: #BREAKING: Social media services Facebook and Instagram appear to be down."

    @facebook, hold me, tell me it's going to be all right.

    NEXT YOU'LL TELL ME GRINDR IS DOWN AND THEN TWITTER WILL GO DOWN. AND THEN SNAPCHAT. WHY DONT I JUST DIE. #SocialMeltdown2015

    People on Twitter upon hearing Facebook and Instagram are down:

    The usual suspects were blamed.

    Facebook down. Instagram down. North Korea? Or Tom from Myspace #backfromthedead #receipt

    People dispensed helpful advice.

    Hey Mark, did you try turning it off and on again?

    And alternatives were suggested.

    This is LiveJournal's moment. I can feel it. #SocialMeltdown2015

    Manual Facebook Update Protocols Engaged: #FacebookDown

    Thank god for Twitter.

    Facebook and instagram are down. Whole world comes to twitter to complain about it. 😂

    The hacker group Lizard Squad has said it is responsible for the outage. Over Christmas, the group claimed to be behind the Microsoft and Sony gaming network hacks.

    However, ITV News reported that both Facebook and Instagram denied being hacked, blaming the outage on "a change that affected our configuration systems".