FB is still down here in communist Minneapolis.

Folks, I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but this outage may or may not be significant. I work for a large software company and yes, systems are more sophisticated and automated than ever. But they're still controlled by humans and humans make mistakes as well as deliberately destroy things.

Primary access to Facebook.com is literally two "A records" in a DNS zone.

And if a mistake is made in one of the root servers, that error is propagated to DNS servers world-wide.

Yes, this outage could be meaningful. But it could also be just a run of the mill (albeit a very high profile one) mistake or malicious act.