‘It was scary at first’: social media users on the Facebook outage

Three people tell how they were affected by the temporary loss of the site, and WhatsApp and Instagram

• The global outage just adds to Facebook's many recent woes

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram experienced an outage that left users around the world unable to access the social media platforms for nearly six hours on Monday and Tuesday.

The outage was one of the worst Facebook has experienced, with the company blaming faulty configuration changes on its routers for the extended disruption.