It was down for maintenance the other night, Not sure how long it lasted as I did exactly what I put in my OP & put the laptop down and had a chat with my long lost sister looking through actual physical photo albums rather than Facebook albums
3 months cold turkey so far 
You won't miss it.
I did wonder where all the Shady abuse went
I was directing my "abuse" at a chap who was standing for Borough Councillor - L is for Labour, L is for Lice - and he was a right numpty. He was trying and failing to score points against the incumbent in a long conversation on a mutual friends post that he hijacked.
After tearing him a new one several times, and getting quite angry about how stupid he was I decided it was best to have a bit of a rest from castigating the plebs.