You might want to ask, Why is Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram not opening? Well, Facebook down is real! The most popular social media platform on earth is currently experiencing an unexpected outage for over two hours now and counting. Also, all Facebook companies; Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp, Workspace, and Oculus VR are all down. You might want to as, why is Facebook down? In this article, we will explain to you the reasons why Facebook and all its subsidiaries went down for so many hours.
The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – stopped working shortly before 5pm. Other related products, such as Facebook Messenger and Workplace, have also stopped working.
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp have been out around the world for several hours.
Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer, Mike Schroepfer, has taken to Twitter to explain the reason behind the social media blackout.
He wrote: “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now.
“We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.”
There’s no telling how long it will take before the online websites and apps are back up and running but you can probably guarantee that they’ve tried the old trick of turning it off and on.
Zuckerberg’s wealth is now down $7bn Big Tech stocks go DOWN as well Facebook’s employees are reportedly unable to even enter the building! The NYT reports Facebook says the hack is unlikely.
Facebook employees can’t enter the headquarters because their badges don’t work, and those already inside can’t enter various rooms because access is linked through the IoT (Internet of Things) and so goes through the same DNS routes that no longer exist:
Reasons Why Facebook is down
In slightly less nerdy speak, that means that effectively Facebook.com, Instagram.com and presumably the rest have had their records wiped from the internet’s address book. When you type one of those URLs into your internet browser, it should be able to speak to Facebook and ask it where it needs to go – but the system that does so has been withdrawn.
It’s like turning up at the Facebook office for a meeting but the receptionist isn’t there. You (or your computer) are just stuck at the desk, since you (or it) don’t know the number of the office door you’re trying to get to. (Or something like that analogy.)
It Could Be a Prank!
Facebook appears to have had its DNS records taken from the global routing tables. That’s according to Brian Krebs, a cyber security expert who runs a popular blog. Maybe this is a publicity stunt for the new Matrix movie?
We Suspect DNS Server Error
It’s not clear why that happened. Facebook is so big that it runs its own DNS – unlike other, smaller companies – so only someone at Facebook would have the power to stop it running, too.
It appears that the outage is caused by a DNS (domain name server) fail — this is the naming structure that forms the web’s infrastructure. So, if you try to navigate to facebook.com right now, the internet won’t know where to find facebook.com
Did someone delete Facebook?
According to a Twitter post made by THE ACADEMY, “So, someone deleted large sections of the routing….that doesn’t mean Facebook is just down, from the looks of it….that means Facebook is GONE.”
If this is true, it means that Facebook is basically gone for now…. nowhere to be found and this must have been an inside job or a very well planned cyberattack.
