Facebook was down for brief time this evening, and some users are still complaining of sluggishness on the site.
via news.cnet.com
The outage appears to have begun around 4:26 p.m., according to flood of tweets by Facebook users complaining that they were unable to access the site.
Facebook is acting like its stock. It keeps going dow
Downforeveryoneorjustme.com was giving visitors intermittent "down" answers this evening when they checked on Facebook's status. Later queries at the site indicated Facebook was up, but several users around CNET reported their Facebook pages taking more than a minute to load.