UPDATE: Oct. 5, 2021, 11:52 a.m. AEDT Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are finally back up after a six-hour outage, though whether this is a good or bad thing depends on your point of view. Predictably, reactions have been mixed.

Our original story follows.

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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Workplace have been down for a good chunk of the day on Monday. So the people of the internet are doing what they do best, making jokes about it on Twitter.

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Twitter lives for the chaos, so it's no surprise that people are having hilarious reactions to Facebook and Instagram being down.

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If your brain is craving a scroll through Facebook or Instagram these memes might just satisfy it.

Here are a few of our favorites.

1. Has he tried this?

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2. Your influencer friends are brave everyday, but especially today

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3. They figured out how to shut down finsta

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4. Classic sci-fi joke

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5. Twitter is loving it

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6. Twitter of course includes CEO Jack Dorsey

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7. Tumblr is loving it too

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8. Wouldn't that be nice...

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9. Obligatory Squid Gamememe

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10. Another one!

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11. How many hours has it been now?

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12. Yeah :/

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13. Congrats to him!

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14. Always be optimizing

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15. That can't be a coincidence

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16. Makes you think

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