Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp go down temporarily

Facebook, you may have heard, is off to a scary October. As the month got started Friday, Facebook had already decided to delay its planned Instagram for Kids because of privacy concerns. On Sunday, a whistleblower who had already released thousands of pages of Facebook research revealed herself on CBS' "60 Minutes," bringing new life to her charges. And then came Monday. Facebook — along with all of its related applications, like Instagram and WhatsApp — went offline. That meant that tools…