Facebook Mobile Sucks

By Luke

Apparently Facebook Mobile’s growth is on a steady appreciating curve. Currently 25% of the total users of Facebook access the social network via mobile and this number is predicted to increase in the near future. You can view their entire strategy with mobile networking in this post.

While all this is very impressive, the fact that their standard m.facebook.com mobile version (that is used by 50% of smartphone users counting Nokia devices only that is) sucks doesn’t help their cause. Apparently they have abandoned the development of their standard mobile product.

For starters, any friend that writes a wall post to a mutual friend appears on a friend’s timeline as a status update (i.e. without the recipient) of the aforementioned friend. This obviously can make things a little confusing. Also, Facebook probably handles hordes of bandwidth every second on their standard web product and mobile products but somehow they are looking to cut corners with their light bandwidth standard mobile product. The Recent and News Feed displays around 20-40 of the latest updates which is a tad cheeseparing in my opinion.

While the above two points are the main factors behind my rant, they are major inconveniences that should have been addressed several weeks (or perhaps months?) ago, however I’m baffled that out of 50% of Facebook Mobile users that use the standard m.facebook.com version of the site, I am yet to find anyone complaining on the blogosphere or anywhere for that matter. Maybe it’s just me?

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4 Comments so far

Number Of March 11, 2010 11:07 pm

May be we are getting tired of Facebook, even small inconveniences irritate us so much.
.-= Number Of´s last blog ..Number of BPO in India =-.

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Adam May 10, 2010 2:15 am

Had my HD2 for about a week now & I have to agree. Facebook Mobile is definitely lacking in a lot of simple features. You can’t ‘Like’ status, add/remove photos or switch to landscape mode. & in general I think the layout looks kinda sloppy.

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Udegbunam Chukwudi June 1, 2010 2:41 pm

I admit Facebook Mobile doesn’t have its lapses/limitations but it still helps those of us on seriously limited bandwidth to communicate on a low budget

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Udegbunam Chukwudi reply on June 1st, 2010 2:42 pm:
Oops! I meant does have its lapses/limitations lol

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