WASHINGTON: If you could not log on to your Facebook account Wednesday afternoon, it was because the popular social networking site suffered an outage for about 15 minutes that affected users around the world.

The outage was due to "an error while making an infrastructure configuration change", Facebook later said in a statement.

"We immediately discovered the issue and fixed it, and everyone should now be able to connect," a Facebook spokesperson was quoted as saying.

"We first noticed the outage at 3:39PM Eastern Standard Time, with staff from North America to Europe confirming the issue," The Next Web reported.

The world’s largest social networking site, Facebook lately had become an indispensable want that most of us visit at least once a day. It has become a palpable reality, where its users can feel joy, envy, guilt, love, hate, voice and much more.

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