# Is anyone else having trouble accessing Facebook right now? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879 "2021-10-04T17:10:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/1 "2021-10-04T17:10:36Z")
About an hour ago I noticed that Facebook was getting glitchy. I wanted to read the comments to a post, but when I clicked on the link I just got the screen full of fake blank comments like you sometimes get when they’re loading. Then some time later there was an error message saying that I had no internet connection. (Everything else on the phone works fine.) I tried logging out of FB and logging back in, since that’s one of the recommended fixes, but now I can’t log on at all. Again, the error message is that I have no internet connection. I’ve tried logging via wifi as well as the mobile data connection, but the error is the same. I’m not in FB jail, am I? (Not that I can imagine any conceivable reason why I would be.) Even if I’m in jail, I should still be able to log in and read the site, shouldn’t I? All this is also being experienced by my wife, who has a different model phone, though also a Samsung Galaxy. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/2 "2021-10-04T17:13:50Z")
Same issue here (no comments loading). I’m also unable to use messenger, which really sucks as I use that more than texting. I tried uninstalling and then installing the messenger app, now I can’t even log in. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/3 "2021-10-04T17:14:20Z")
No, not just you. I just tried now and it’s not loading for me either. Apparently, this is a known issue: > **[Facebook is back online after a massive outage that also took down Instagram,...](https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22708989/instagram-facebook-outage-messenger-whatsapp-error)** > > It’s always DNS. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/4 "2021-10-04T17:15:00Z")
There’s some incredibly delicious irony somewhere in the fact that literally the morning after 60 minutes aired the FB whistleblower’s segment and while a Facebook spokesperson was on CNBC defending the company, the whole online shebang a bang goes offline. Nothing to see here, move along! 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/5 "2021-10-04T17:17:19Z")
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! I just saw the headline on the AP: > **[Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage](https://apnews.com/article/facebook-whatsapp-instagram-outage-8b9d3862ed957029e545182a595fdce1)** > > Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours. Facebook said late Monday that “the root cause of this outage... For those that didn’t see or hear about the _60 Minutes_ segment: > **[Whistleblower: Facebook chose profit over public safety](https://apnews.com/article/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-4a3640440769d9a241c47670facac213)** > > NEW YORK (AP) — A data scientist who was revealed Sunday as the Facebook whistleblower says that whenever there was a conflict between the public good and what benefited the company, the social media giant would choose its own interests. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/6 "2021-10-04T17:19:22Z")
Assuming they’re all independent and separate, how could they all going down simultaneously be anything other than some massive pre-planned attack? Unless they all rely on the same server or system. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/7 "2021-10-04T17:24:08Z")
Hearing it’s DNS issues… [https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1445072650720591875?s=19](https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1445072650720591875?s=19) But who knows for now? Meanwhile, Twitter is like… [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51550942094_71fa6352c3_z.jpg "20211004\_122111") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51550942094/) Also, independent vaccine researchers have taken a heavy blow: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51549431092_894ba4e81d_b.jpg "20211004\_122514") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51549431092/) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/8 "2021-10-04T17:24:27Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Assuming they’re all independent and separate, how could they all going down simultaneously be anything other than some massive pre-planned attack? Unless they all rely on the same server or system. I read an article that said it was a DNS attack but offered no proof. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/9 "2021-10-04T17:51:20Z")
Brian Krebs sez DNS attack: > ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/10 "2021-10-04T17:59:17Z")
Hopefully Twitter will go down and we can pretend it is 2002 all over again. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/11 "2021-10-04T18:01:14Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Assuming they’re all independent and separate They aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/12 "2021-10-04T18:27:29Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Hearing it’s DNS issues… 60% of the time, it’s DNS every time. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/13 "2021-10-04T18:27:54Z")
Could it be a hack? I don’t see how FB wouldn’t have the redundancy to handle any possible routine failure/outage, absent a massive regional power blackout. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/14 "2021-10-04T18:37:28Z")
I hope it doesn’t come back I mean, I use it, because the alternative is fall out of touch with certain friends, but I hate it. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/15 "2021-10-04T18:41:19Z")
Like the OP I also wondered if I was on Facebook jail. Even when arguing with an idiot I try to be civil but I have seen some weird suspensions happen. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/16 "2021-10-04T19:01:20Z")
NY Times tech reporter: > ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/17 "2021-10-04T19:03:27Z")
The sysadmin’s haiku: _It’s not DNS_ _There’s no way it’s DNS_ _…it was DNS_ ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/18 "2021-10-04T19:18:20Z")
It’s affecting much more than just FB and related. Half the websites I go to normally aren’t working. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/19 "2021-10-04T19:34:08Z")
My new girlfriend and I only ever communicate through FB messenger. Was wondering how I’d be able to get in touch without making a surreptitious call to her work tomorrow, coded to avoid risking grief from her manager. Fortunately she dug up my phone number on an scrap of paper from when we met a couple of years ago and texted me. There’s a load off my mind, but still. Not exactly comfortable with how much I depend on FB for all my social interactions, especially at times like this. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-accessing-facebook-right-now/951879/20 "2021-10-04T19:35:34Z")
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