People Apparently Called the Police Because Facebook Went Down

It looks like Facebook is down. Many are reporting the outage on Twitter and other social networks. Even downforeveryoneorjustme.com confirms that Facebook is down. Facebook has been offline for about 5 minutes at this point. I expect it to go back

Facebook wants to help other businesses sell things, so it's done selling its own. Facebook Gifts will shut down on August 12th and stop selling gift cards for businesses like Starbucks and iTunes. Facebook tells me no layoffs 

Facebook was down for 30 minutes around noon on Friday, prompting a flood of 911 calls to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office. Sgt. Burton Brink of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department tweeted about the incident 

facebook down Twitter went into overdrive after Facebook users were shut out of their accounts for about 40 minutes Friday morning. The failure at the social networking giant was felt globally with users receiving the message 

People started reporting the outage around noon on Friday. As of 12:35 p.m., Facebook was back online. According to the Facebook status page, Facebook acknowledged the error at 12:01 p.m.: “Facebook is currently experiencing an issue that is affecting