Facebook was down

This is the first time I have observed upvotes piling up so fast. It was just 7 points a few minutes back, now it's 70+

Could not use Connect with Facebook in an iOS app. So their APIs seem to be down as well.

How many submissions do we need on this topic?

Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function.

I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3 submissions commenting on a procrastination portal being down is really scraping the barrel.

[edit]

I see the submissions have now been consolidated. That makes much more sense. Good work HN admins :)