UPDATE: May 9, 2017, 12:38 p.m. SGT Facebook has sent a statement saying: "Earlier today, some Facebook users were unable to access Facebook briefly due to a technical issue. We have now fixed the issue and apologize for any inconvenience caused.”

If your Facebook page was down for a couple of hours — it wasn't 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.

Trying to login to facebook, and got this error again?

What's wrong with this @facebook #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/VJbhJ0k2yR

— Roberto Onggo Kusumo (@RobertoOK96) May 9, 2017

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And by the looks of it on Twitter, they were pretty freaked out about it.

Naturally, #facebookdown started trending.

OMG!!! #facebook is down and I can't even get to Facebook to tell all my facebook friends that facebook is down!! — Bruce Krochman (@bkrochman) May 9, 2017

holy crap, facebook's down! everyone start rioting and looting, the end of the world is here! — Chris Hayward (@ellji) May 9, 2017

#FacebookDown Do I have to talk to people in real life now?! #panic pic.twitter.com/hr7FlkaAe1 — Caroline Williams (@caroline_nz) May 9, 2017

Even officials got in on the action.

We don't mean to alarm you but FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!! How will we know what you ate for lunch!? pic.twitter.com/j3z6Uf4q13 — NSW Police (@nswpolice) May 9, 2017

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

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