On Friday morning, Facebook had a brief outage affecting the Los Angeles area. According to Sgt. Burton Brink of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, many residents called 911 as a result of the social network going down.
Brink decided to tweet out the following message to prevent any further calls being made:
#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don't call us about it being down, we don't know when FB will be back up!
Twitter users were quick to verify whether the sergeant was joking or not.
@LASDBrink do people really call to say that or was that a joke?
@moneyries yes, we get calls all the time like this, cable TV, all sorts of things not working, they think we control.
No, really, is he joking or not?
@LASDBrink @sistertoldjah seriously, people were calling the police to ask about Facebook?
@Brad_Lovett @sistertoldjah Yes, they do. We get it all the time.
OK, so people really do call the police when Facebook goes down.
Yes we got calls #facebookdown That is why I sent out my previous msg to prevent them. Unk number received on 911 or reg number TY #LASD
SAVE US.
ON IT