As if it wasn’t bad enough that one of most popular websites in the world seems to be down for the majority of users on the planet, the downtime of Facebook has also been responsible to slowing up a good portion of the internet.

Not only is Facebook.com down, but the like button, share button, and like widgets are also down. This means that any sites which have these features integrated into their site will experience slower load speeds as user’s browsers get tied up trying to load the various widgets and buttons from the facebook servers. Also any sites using Facebook connect will also be unusable during this time.

The downtime seems to have started approximately 70 minutes ago, and is one of the more widespread outages that Facebook has experienced in recent times.