Facebook and Instagram back up with company saying outages are not linked 

It is the second time in a week that there has been an outage at Facebook

Engineers confirmed that the outage was not related to the one that occurred earlier this week.

Facebook and Instagram are back online after the social media services suffered an outage on Friday evening. 

It is the second time this week that the two services were hit with an outage after Monday saw the sites go down for hours.