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The Day Facebook Broke

Hi my name is Iva and I’m an addict

Iva Ursano
4 min readOct 4, 2021

Raise your hands if you were one of the people who lost their motherfucking minds today when the two giants of social media went down-Facebook and Instagram? 🙌 Don’t be embarrassed. I kinda snapped a few times too.

I’m not much of an Instagram girl but Facebook, ya. It’s my lifeline, my kryptonite, my addiction. Well, that is, up until today. 🤦‍♀️

At first I thought it was my internet. I live in Guatemala. It gets wonky at times. I was trying to post a question. I needed advice on something. It wouldn’t post. I’ll admit. I was annoyed. A lot.

Let me post my damn question please!! Damn you, what the hell is wrong? Stop fucking around. I got things to post, people to chat with, memes to share, work to ignore….c’mon dammit!

I tried uploading a photo. I tried on my phone and on my tablet and on my laptop. Oh how I tried. Then I tried to send a Whatsapp message to my friend. Yup. That was a no go too.

I eventually gave up and went to work on other stuff. That’s when I noticed something.

Hi my name is Iva and I’m a Facebook addict 🙋‍♀️

I’m a Facebook addict for good reason ( I think ). I run a big page over there and belong to a few really…

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