Facebook and Instagram went down Tuesday morning, with users around the globe reporting issues updating statuses, slow load times and connecting to Messenger.

According to downdetector.com, reported outages were heaviest on the east coast of the United States and across Europe.

While the site seemed to come back slowly as the morning went on, posts on social media (those that weren’t Facebook and Instagram, of course), showed that when their social media goes down, the internet just can’t handle it.

https://twitter.com/Ceka_D/status/1064874036184956928

Messenger is down. I repeat messenger is down #FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/j0vtlpiFP6

— J (@jonbarradell) November 19, 2018

It certainly put a few people out.

Apparently Facebook is down which means suburban housewives are currently popping Xanax because they can’t comment “what a beautiful family 😍” every 4 minutes.#FacebookDown

— Jes (@DoYouEvenLIf) November 18, 2018

Of course – the day I’m hosting an all-day Facebook promo event…Facebook goes down… 🤯 #FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/zlhCXNmarl

— Jo🦔McNally🦔Romance (@JoMcNallyAuthor) November 20, 2018

We in the media understand fully their pain.

Social Media Managers rn#FacebookDown #InstagramDown pic.twitter.com/qHi08IJ2FE

— Cannes Lions (@Cannes_Lions) November 20, 2018

Others were looking for someone to talk to about it.

Facebook is down. Where do we go to complain about this?

— Brian Kornfeld (@TheRocketManBK) November 20, 2018

WHAT. IS. HAPPENING??! Is Facebook is down again!? NOOOOOOOO!!! #Facebook #FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/pITOaLte5p

— Denise Caputo (@dmcaputo) November 20, 2018

So, what does a tech-(un)savvy person do?

Facebook is down, so just manically refresh the page/app over and over again. That should help it. #FacebookDown

— Ivica Milarić (@filmzadanas) November 20, 2018

Ah, that’s what we do.

https://twitter.com/valentinadprm/status/1064018735722319872

It's funny how we're all conditioned to come to Twitter to see if Facebook is hosed again. #FacebookDown

— Elaine Reeder (@ezeereeder) November 20, 2018

It all meant that Twitter was enjoying a very good morning.

Facebook is down. Hello everyone. Welcome to Twitter. It's nice you could join us. #FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/qqeGa3AwAS

— Rob Jeffries (@RobJeffries) November 20, 2018

I don’t mean to alarm you but there’s a caravan of Facebook people headed towards the Twitter border#FacebookDown

— Jeff Dwoskin – Hashtag Roundup (@bigmacher) November 20, 2018

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