A number of Los Angeles residents resorted to calling the 911 just to report that Facebook was down on Friday.

As reported by Reuters, Facebook was not accessible to several countries for just around 30 minutes on Friday, but was fully restored after fixing the technical failure. Many residents of Los Angeles considered this as an emergency situation so they called the 911.

Sgt. Burton Brink, public information officer of the Los Angeles County Sheriff office, posted a tweet reprimanding those who called up the 911 lines just to cry for help on the Facebook outage: "Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don't call us about it being down, we don't know when FB will be back up!"

Facebook Inc. said they were able to restore the services the same day ater identifying the technical glitch, which affected multiple countries.

In a statement released, Facebook said: "Earlier this morning, some people had trouble accessing Facebook for short time. We quickly investigated and have fully restored service for everyone. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

Most of the Facebook users only saw the message this message in their accounts: "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."

The social media giant Facebook has more than 1.32 billion monthly users. The extent of the disruption was not clear to Facebook, but some of the areas affected include Chile, India, United States, and the Philippines.

Sgt. Brink, meanwhile, asked the Facebook users not to use again the emergency lines of 911 if the social networking site goes down again.

Apparently, the limitation to check out their contacts' latest meals or relationship status has become a serious issue for any Facebook users. Authorities, however, are keen in reminding the public that this should not affected their response to real-time emergencies.