Chicago, IL – Facebook users across the United States experienced widespread outages Friday afternoon, with reports of errors beginning around 4 p.m. ET.
According to Downdetector, a site that tracks online service disruptions, reports of Facebook issues spiked sharply just after 4 p.m., with hundreds of users noting problems loading feeds, logging in, or accessing the platform’s mobile app. Nearly half of the complaints involved the website not loading, while 32% reported issues with the app and 21% with login access.
Users quickly turned to other social media platforms to voice their frustration. Comments posted on outage monitoring forums described repeated error messages such as “something went wrong” when attempting to access feeds, while other parts of the platform remained functional. “Technical issue – feed doesn’t load,” one user wrote, while another added, “Still over a week re=loading crashing Facebook. Pennsylvania.”
The outage does not appear to be localized to a single region. Reports poured in from multiple states, with some international users also noting difficulties. A noticeable surge in outage reports was reflected on Downdetector’s live outage map, showing heavy clusters in major U.S. cities.
As of late Friday afternoon, Facebook had not publicly issued a statement addressing the cause of the disruption. Outages of this scale are uncommon, though Facebook and its parent company Meta have experienced large platform-wide crashes in the past due to technical errors.
Users are advised to monitor Meta’s official status channels for updates as engineers work to resolve the disruption.
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