Facebook should just replace their Android app with this picture - it would be smaller and nobody would notice a thing

icerfish · 2 months

Still incorrect, mine would have no notifications...

significantpickle · 2 months

You know what works better than the Facebook mobile app and platform?

Everything.

rifraf90 · 2 months

I'm glad it's not just my phone!

awe300 · 2 months

The app is so fucking bad. I actually prefer the mobile website, it works much better

sadfacewhenputdown · 3 months

The mobile site was the better alternative until recently. Now it's as clunky as anything clunky.

randazza · 2 months

What amazes me is that unofficial Facebook Android apps continue to work better. It can't be that hard for a multibillion dollar company to build a functional application if a couple of 20 year olds can do it in their spare time, can it?

Vole85 · 2 months

I'm not sure about android, but on iOS, I just hide the actual facebook app in a folder (keep it installed so I still get push notifications) and add the mobile site to my homepage. The icon is exactly the same as the app. It just works a lot better.

stealthcopter · 2 months

Interesting fact: My coworker rewrote the facebook SDK for iOS, so if the facebook people actually use this instead for their app it would work at lot faster. Only real news article I can find for it apart from the github project.

lukmcd · 2 months

The Iphone app would be the same.

PhishGreenLantern · 2 months

The "tablet version" is atrocious. My Fiance has an Ipad. I can't believe the difference. It's insulting. I'd switch to G+ but there's nobody there.

wruckus_effer · 2 months

Everyone is facing this shit of an app. How come they haven't done anything about it? The Play store has 3.6 rating right now. HOW? Do you need phones with more processor or always 3G mode to let it function smoothly? At a point it's not funny. Google plus is far better and smoother social app. There should be an app to sync all the Facebook data to Google + so you can browse more efficiently. /rant.

whiterungaurd · 2 months

The iPhone community understands.

justinsidebieber · 2 months

My Facebook app seems to work fine all the time. However does anyone else have to deal with pictures sticking out of the frame like this?

ThaFuck · 2 months

Yup. Same on iOS and the hundreds of app store reviews concur.

The cynic in me wonders if the slow down is intentional. I first started noticing it not long before the IPO being first announced, and a lot of talk around the fact that Facebook aren't geared well to moniterize the fastest growing market (mobile).

Hence frustrate users to use traditional access to browse.

ShoopSkillz · 2 months

I clicked on the link and waited for the data to load for five minutes before remembering that I'm a moron.

Going back to sleep now.

CUNT_SUCKING_PHAGGOT · 2 months

Friendcaster shits all over the Official app, it makes me wonder how a company with billions of dollars can't create an app that actually functions properly.

change the Friendcaster icon to the official icon, then you have what the official app should have actually been.

asdfirl22 · 2 months

I use friendster.

IainStanford · 2 months

Am I the only one who has no issues with it at all. Loads as quick as another app/browser.

I never use 3G to, wifi only...in the Uk, Galaxy S2.

triobot · 2 months

There is an app which can display mobile or desktop version of facebook: tinfoil for facebook

gajano · 2 months

I think there is something wrong with your link, it says "Loading." I've pressed it about 5 times and even waited 30-min, but still, just "Loading." I'm going to click it a few more times to make sure.

Pxtl · 2 months

Wp7 Is a bit flaky, but not that bad.

MrCorporate · 2 months

I feel like I am the only one who doesn't have a problem with it. What phones are you using? On my Samsung Galaxy SII it works great.

dondillon · 2 months

Tinfoil is your friend.

leguellec · 2 months

All that for only 90% of the storage space! -.-

Grahamr1234 · 2 months

I use FriendCaster, Its much better than the official app.

dewey_do_me · 2 months

I just tought it was just my phone. shit app.

torino_nera · 2 months

Surprisingly, the best Facebook app I've used on a mobile phone has been the one for Blackberry. The one for iPhone is complete garbage. I kinda miss my little keyboard phone sometimes. It makes me sad how far RIM has fallen.

5NL70 · 2 months

My user experience with the Android Facebook app is a bit comparable to walking into a restaurant that is advertised as, and looks on the outside like, having 5 Michelin stars and once inside finding yourself in front of a crowded McDonald's counter with someone shouting "CAN I TAKE YOUR ORDER PLEASE!!" in your face. Except that is a bad comparison because in McDonald's you would at least get your food in no time. This is a pathetic excuse for an app of a company where the owners are multi-billionaires. Laughable.

saadghauri · 2 months

I hate this and the fact that it takes about 14mb of space on my phone. I have a low end phone and 14mb on internal storage is a bit high but the worst part is i can see no justifiable reason why an android app that mostly pulls data from the internet needs that much space

Ginger-Nerd · 2 months

I bought a windows phone, i don't know what the problem is...

Deusdies · 2 months

I feel like I'm the only Android user who has the official FB app working great and not draining any battery...

Trayf · 2 months

If anyone's curious, this would also apply to the iOS version.

dm42 · 2 months

I can't understand how such a huge company has such a shoddy Android app of their website.

Robinsaneyo · 2 months

I've had a Blackberry and two Android phones over the past 4 years, never had a Facebook app that actually worked with full functionality. There was a brief period of time it worked perfectly on my Blackberry, but it had such limited functionality to begin with that it would be impossible to fuck up.

I would almost never use the actual site to do things if it simply worked correctly on my phone.

pogiface · 2 months

I used to not have any problems but now days i can start scrolling down and mid way it will just reload and be stuck that way for no reason even when i could clearly keep scrolling down, the ones below were already loaded. wtf

t0advine · 2 months

I occasionally fire up the app just to embarrass my phone. The point doesnt seem to be getting across, though.

Renix · 2 months

About the same on iPhone.

TreehouseAndSky · 2 months

Poor android users think they're the only ones getting floqued.

Don't worry, hombre, the app sucks just as hard on the iphone!

Semajal · 2 months

In all honesty my iphone facebook app has got worse and worse. I have no idea why but it just seems stupidly slow. Heck my iphone itself is getting slower (3GS).

Personally I feel that Apple is deploying updates to slowly fuck up older gen phones so people upgrade. But damnit I will get at least 3 years out of this thing!

Wehrwolf666 · 2 months

The Iphone app is just as bad, and the way I found to fix it was uninstall and reinstall the app. The reason it is so slow is because it creates cache files every time you run it and then updates all the old cache files and eventually its updating a shit ton of them

schaft0620 · 2 months

Am I the only on here not having a problem with this app!?

Shaosil · 2 months

It is literally faster for me to open the browser, type www.facebook.com, and sign in, than wait for this slow-as-molasses-in-January app to finish "loading" Come on, app devs...

izpants · 2 months

I don't even use it any more. It taunts me with notifications but then refuses to show them to me.

JackImpact · 2 months

Are you on CM9?

cronini · 2 months

What about when it is the same notification over and over again?

DisturbedPuppy · 2 months

If you don't update the app when it asks, it eventually it does this. At least that is what I've noticed.

PittsburghStruK · 2 months

Should be screen saying "Force Close"

Weathermaker · 2 months

I'm so glad this is here, I've spent the last couple months saying "this thing is fucking useless"...glad I'm not the only one.

ephex_SA · 2 months

Friendster.

jatanis · 2 months

Opened my Facebook app after reading this post... http://www.imgur.com/xHfgV.jpg

Strange1130 · 2 months

I feel the same way about iPhone's.

rustysniper · 2 months

Not just Android

FreaXoMatic · 2 months

Needs to be a gif with this spinning/loading thingy in the middle.

SandstoneD · 2 months

The iPhone app is just as bad. Good luck trying to update any page in under five minutes. For such a large company their app sucks sweaty nuts.

duvakiin · 2 months

it would load faster

KMFCM · 2 months

god

it's the WORST trying to get your notifications on that fucking thing

that takes longer than anything else

HAVE_A_CHILL_DAY · 2 months

my new wallpaper

cjhelms · 2 months

The useless Facebook app. Finally something iOS and Android users can agree about!

Imjoeandiliketoparty · 2 months

Ill I want to know is how the hell did you do a screen shot on your android?

drdrderp · 2 months

http://imgur.com/LDu96.jpg

Luriker · 2 months

Same for the iphone app, I have to restart it all the time just to load pages.

funny

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