Facebook has sent a statement saying: "Earlier today, some Facebook users were unable to access Facebook briefly due to a technical issue. We have now fixed the issue and apologize for any inconvenience caused."

If your Facebook page was down for a couple of hours — it wasn't just you.

People all across the globe realised on Monday night that the social media platform was down. People in Asia were waking up to it on a Tuesday morning.

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And by the looks of it on Twitter, they were pretty freaked out about it.

Naturally, #facebookdown started trending.