Facebook

October 11, 2017 10:07 AM

On my laptop, Facebook does not load. I have tried on IE and Firebox, as well as Chrome. It works on my phone. I have cleared the cache, restored settings, and cleared cookies. I have tried it in an incognito tab, and have restarted. I can get to the log in page, but it goes blank after that. Any ideas?
posted by PinkMoose to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

This is a widespread outage. Not your fault.
posted by madcaptenor at 10:10 AM on October 11, 2017 [2 favorites]

Facebook was down for awhile this morning (for me, and for others) in a similar way, and while it's working for me again I imagine your stuff might be related to that.
posted by needs more cowbell at 10:10 AM on October 11, 2017

For future reference, this site is great about letting you know if the site you're trying to get to is down.
posted by cooker girl at 10:16 AM on October 11, 2017

Response by poster: thanks all!
posted by PinkMoose at 10:17 AM on October 11, 2017

This happens to people I know from time to time on laptops, even when Facebook is not down for anyone else. (Google: 'Facebook white screen') The only thing I've seen that fixes it is logging in on your phone, going to settings to see where you're logged in, and force-logging-off your laptop from the phone. Then the laptop works fine again.
posted by ctmf at 7:03 PM on October 11, 2017