Facebook is down and people are losing their minds

If your Facebook page doesn't appear to be working - it's probably not 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.

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Even officials got in on the action.

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According to Down Detector, Facebook appears to on the fritz in the Asia-Pacific region and on the West Coast of the US, spreading down to Mexico.

Looks like it might be time to revive your MySpace profile.

Mashable has reached out to Facebook for information on the outage.

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