On the night of March 5, people around the world were shocked when they suddenly couldn't log in to their Facebook and Instagram accounts.
Thousands of people admitted that they logged out of their Facebook accounts and its Messenger app without any warning.
Similar to the Facebook platform, Instagram users attempting to log in were greeted with an error message stating, "There was a problem logging you in, please try again soon."
The unexpected issue left users around the world baffled as they were unaware of what had happened to Meta Company
Not only are they faced with issues regarding their passwords, as they find that their entered passwords are not correct upon attempting to log back in, but there is also a growing concern of a hacking incident.
The more they try to log in to their Facebook accounts, the more they fail to do so.
According to Down Detector, there were over 239,000 reports for Facebook and more than 37,000 reports for Instagram during the outage.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, then issued an official reply through a tweet from their communications lead, Andy Stone, stating, 'We're aware that people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on resolving this issue".
After the chaos of the incident, Elon Musk and numerous others took to sharing memes to mock Facebook and Instagram.
On X (previously known as Twitter), Musk shared a tweet from Andy Stone, overlaying it onto an image of three penguins donning Meta logos, and saluting a penguin with an X logo.
This action by Musk was intended to mock Facebook and Instagram after they experienced a worldwide outage.
On social media, many joke about the superiority of X (formerly known as Twitter) and the millions of social media addicts left craving their fix during the outage. Meta has yet to comment on the cause of the outage.
People flooded the platform with amusing gifs and images depicting large crowds or marathon runners, anxiously awaiting any news or updates.
