# Trouble accessing Facebook

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-accessing-facebook/998497>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 5, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-accessing-facebook/998497 "2024-03-05T16:55:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-accessing-facebook/998497/1 "2024-03-05T16:55:31Z")

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I cannot access Facebook at all right now. I tried to change the password via their system: typed in my email address, received code via email, typed in code, got sent to “change password” page and did so, hit enter…and got an “unexpected error” notice and a request to try again. What now?  
By the way, it was fine late last night, I didn’t sign out, but it was inaccessible this morning.

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-accessing-facebook/998497/2 "2024-03-05T16:57:59Z")

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Facebook is (was?) down. There’s already a few threads about it here.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-accessing-facebook/998497/3 "2024-03-05T16:58:33Z")

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Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-accessing-facebook/998497/4 "2024-03-05T16:59:39Z")

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> [@The Faceboopocalypse has begun {Instagram and facebook seemed to have crashed 2024-03-05}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-faceboopocalypse-has-begun-instagram-and-facebook-seemed-to-have-crashed-2024-03-05/998489):
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> I just went to check something and I had been logged out. Logged back on and it told me Facebook was down for “required maintenance” and should be back within “several hours”. Apparently it is widespread and affects Instagram, too. I’m imagining the final scene from Asimov’s Nightfall.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-accessing-facebook/998497/5 "2024-03-05T17:02:02Z")

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-accessing-facebook/998497/6 "2024-03-05T17:03:08Z")

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Since this is already being discussed elsewhere I will close this one.