Giving Thanks: Facebook, Instagram Outages

You may already have experienced this if you've tried to do some Thanksgiving connecting.  (Sorry not sorry.)

Facebook has stopped working, amid a major Thanksgiving outage.

Users complained that the social network broke at the same time as Instagram, which is owned by the same company. WhatsApp, which is owned by the same company, did not appear to be affected by the issues.

Vast numbers of people complained about the issue, according to tracking website Down Detector. The issues were seen across the world, but not everyone appeared to be affected.

Many Facebook users said they were able to get on the site as normal, but that important parts of its functionality were broken. That included sharing new posts, for instance.

Facebook Messenger, which is part of the Facebook platform but exists as a separate app, was also affected by the problems.

A few (?) hours (?) without Trump ads, right- wing memes, lies and conspiracy theories being spread.  Thankful.