Love or Hate it - The servers have gone down.
Social Media Under Attack???

"Call it an internet Apocalypse today! It was only a matter of time until a major social network went down. Amidst severe internet outages across North America it looks like Facebook experiencing an outage for some users. Google’s App Engine, Tumblr and Dropbox have all experienced outages today and now it looks like Facebook is down. The Facebook outage appears to have occurred around 3:00 pm ET, the same time that Dropbox went down. News is just starting to spread on social media and a search for “Facebook Down” returns quite a few results. DownRightNow is also reporting that Facebook is down. And here is an Internet Traffic Report for North America, which clearly shows massive outages. Again stay tuned for more information as we investigate why Facebook is down and find out how all of these outages are related.

For more information on Facebook’s downtime, you can check Twitter or keep refreshing here. As mentioned above we are following Facebook right now and will continue to update this article as we learn more about the outage and reasons why the site was experiencing issues.

More details here:
http://bostinno.com/2012/10/26/facebook-outage-facebook-is-down-for-users-today-report/#ss__250342_245543_0__ss

Interesting because - I just go into Facebook so "Down" is a relative term.
I couldn't get on earlier - but I'm in now.