Today, Facebook has suffered the longest outage in history, with many countries around the world affected by the issue.

On opening facebook.com the error message "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.".

The outage lasted for approximately 20 minutes!

Mark Zuckerberg has been famously quoted stating Facebook will never go down, and will never crash, countless posts on twitter from around the world seem to say otherwise.

Seeing how the Facebook outage has affected people around the globe, is this a preview of the world without Facebook? Can people cope without the massive social network? What would it be like without Facebook, Google+, Twitter and numerous other social websites?

Further details to follow.