People Are Still Calling The Police Everytime Facebook Goes Down

October 1, 2015

Facebook went out of commision for several minutes earlier this week, causing frantic chaos among many Facebook users. Several people did not know what was going on, so their first instinct, according to the

Seriously? Well actually, kind of.

Many police stations tweeted about the reports they were receiving and told people to stop calling.

Yes we can confirm Facebook is down, please don’t call us! What a great opportunity to spend some time with your family… #FacebookDown

— Kingston Police (@MPSKingston) September 28, 2015

Folks please do not call the police because #facebookdown we are as upset as you are but we cannot fix facebook. #sorry #wetried #techpolice

— HPOU (@HPOUTX) September 28, 2015

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While it is clear that some people do not know that the maintenance of social media platforms is not a police-related issue, the police stations indicated that there were no phone calls actually received pertaining to the Facebook shutdown on Tuesday.

The tweets were sent out as a preventive measure to ensure no phone calls were made like they were earlier in January, when five calls were placed to police in one city alone about Facebook being down.

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