Facebook is the world's largest online social network with 1.15 billion members and approximately 700 million active users every day.

According to Fox News, Facebook has 100 petabytes of photos and videos at its U.S. data centres in Oregon, North Carolina, Iowa and Lulea, Sweden.

With a scope this immense, a minor glitch on updating status Monday morning had irked worldwide users for not being able to like posts, comments and upload photos.

Thankfully, by Monday afternoon, Facebook stated that they had fixed the glitch and explained that the problem was due to some network maintenance.

"Earlier this morning, while performing some network maintenance, we experienced an issue that prevented some users from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 percent. We're sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused, a spokesman sated.

In a report from SkyNews, Michael Allen (director at Compuware Corporation) explained that the technical problem had an enormous impact on millions of people because there were already businesses and Web sites connected to Facebook.

"For example, Facebook is used to enable people to login to many other sites and applications. Any organization that is seeing errors or slowdowns with their own site or application should check to see if they are relying on Facebook services before they start firefighting, as this might be the cause," Mr Allen explained.

Meanwhile, after the glitch was reportedly fixed, a report from BBC said that Facebook had lifted its ban against gory photos and videos as long as the manner of posting was to condemn the act being shown.

"Facebook has long been a place where people turn to share their experiences, particularly when they're connected to controversial events on the ground, such as human rights abuses, acts of terrorism and other violent events. People share videos of these events on Facebook to condemn them. If they were being celebrated, or the actions in them encouraged, our approach would be different," Facebook said in the statement.

Facebook also said that it is in the process of creating new ways to permit users to control the content they see in their feeds.

At present, Facebook's community standards still do not allow users from posting contents that are threatening to others, hate speech and sexually explicit photos and videos. Facebook particularly ban users from "sharing any graphic content for sadistic pleasure."

Facebook also disallowed groups with violence and criminal records to maintain an active presence from the site.