Instagram Is Down on Thanksgiving and the Internet Is Freaking Out

There are few certainties in this life. Most people like to mention death and taxes as two things you can always count on, but it's probably time to add a third to the list. You can always count on Instagram to crash. It seems like the popular social media has gone down more and more over the last year or so, and we've gotten to the point where Instagram malfunctioning is a pretty common occurrence.

The new Instagram outage is affecting users around the globe, though some areas are having more issues than others. It looks like Europe and the eastern United States are the most heavily affected, at least for now.

Losing Instagram is always a frustrating affair for some folks, but this time around, the actual timing of the crash makes it even more unbearable. The site went down on Thanksgiving day, which poses a number of problems for people.

How is anyone going to post pictures of their Thanksgiving spread if they can't access the site? Furthermore, how are people supposed to deal with being around their extended family all day without having a social media site to stare at? Are we supposed to just talk to people?

According to the Internet, the most common way to fix Instagram's issues is to hop on over to Twitter and complain to your followers or dunk on Instagram.