Facebook is experiencing issues that are preventing many users from using many aspects of the service, including status updates, liking, commenting, and more.

A quick search of Twitter reveals that the issue is widespread, and the hashtag #facebookdown is trending globally.

We’re experiencing issues here – this is message we get when attempting to post a status update:

And we’re also getting an error message when we attempt to like or comment on posts:

We still have access to Facebook.com and Facebook mobile, but the site is slow to load.

Facebook has yet to make any statement on the outage, but we’ve reached out and will let you know when we hear back.