Dec 19, 2019

Version 251.0

3.1 out of 5

381.4K Ratings

Buggiest app on my iPad

Let’s face it, if you use social media Facebook is a must have to stay connected. However the Facebook app is a complete bug filled app that only seems to break more with every update. I’ve been waiting for years for it to work right and yet I always know when an update comes, because something you use regularly will break guaranteed. If by some miracle it gets fixed in the bi-weekly update, I promise you something else you use will be hindered in the next version.

Sorting has always been a mystery to me. I understand sponsored posts and ads as something as to pay for the backend but I never understand why something as simple as seeing recent posts just doesn’t happen. Most recent is a joke...it just never works. I constantly get days old posts in my news feed even if there’s been no replies to them. If I see something and then accidentally refresh I may never find that post again because it’s lost in the Facebook algorithm.

In the end Facebook is still the best way to post and share news and info with friends, but the constant failures of the app time after time makes it beyond frustrating and disappointing to use.

Edited Review: By Far The Worst for Artists & Small Biz

If I could give 0 stars, I would. It’s bad enough that you can’t feel safe with them harvesting and selling your data. But the attack on sellers has become a serious issue, which is strange because they apparently fail to screen scam artists who, via a simple google search produce hundreds of poor reviews and claims for being ripped off yet still manage to reach THOUSANDS with FB ads, yet they put legitimate hardworking artisans/sellers through HELL when they try to utilize business tools and promote/market/network. They pretend their platform is free, but as soon as you spend years busting your tail to get a huge base, they throw algorithms at you so that your posts are seen by 1% of those followers you worked so hard to get in an effort to make you pay for their ads and boost posts- which I’ve done, and it’s never helped me or made any sort of positive impact. I finally uninstalled this and Instagram when my product tags suddenly stopped being approved, my posts kept being marked as spam/taken down for violating some unknown policy, and they started issuing me warnings about posts from FOUR YEARS AGO saying my account could be restricted/locked due to their new policies. Facebook has become scum. It’s nothing but greed and algorithm games designed to cycle right back onto their greed. So glad to be rid of this superficial nonsense and to take back my power as an artist.

The mutating app that breaks itself.

There is an almost schizoid approach to the interface design, wherein FB keeps switching where things are located, adding or removing features as they see fit.! Don’t get too comfortable or familiar, because things will change. This being said, it sometimes feels like an arms race and ongoing cold war between the company and the user, whereby content is increasingly being intruded by an incessant need for the user to react rather than passively enjoy communicating and sharing things without an overbearing app presence. Further, settings and user controls are deeply buried, making it very difficult to opt out of data tracking or minimizing your online presence, away from data hungry companies which should require a transparent opt in process instead.

The worst part of the experience is usually video related, whether it is the terrible interface itself, or the annoying funneling of design, making it difficult to track through a video or to ignore overlays for comments and emotes over live and recorded content. On top of that are the bugs which plague this latest version with its frequent crashes.

I used to enjoy the simplicity of this app, but the more unwanted features they continue to cram in, the more bloated and annoying it has become.