Facebook goes down, leaving thousands of users across the U.S. and Europe unable access pages

Facebook appeared to be offline on Friday night to some users in the United States and Europe leaving thousands of users across the globe unable to access their profiles or use the chat services during a widespread outage.  

Downdetector.com which measures website problems saw the problems start to occur around 10pm EST. 

The most common problem appeared to revolve around those attempting to log in to the site – which they were unable to do.