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Stumbling upon Droid Life randomly after purchasing a Motorola DROID in late 2009, then setting out to learn everything he could about Android, Tim quickly became an integral part of the site's comment section. After quite some time of strictly commenting on Droid Life, Tim was offered an opportunity to write feature stories for the site, such as custom ROM overviews, as well as interviews with Android community members. Following success of those, Tim became a full time writer and editor for Droid Life, now spending his time on news articles, device reviews, producing videos, and much more. Tim currently resides in Portland, OR with his longtime girlfriend and two wonderful dog children (Loki & Thor). In his spare time, Tim enjoys playing guitar, drinking coffee, practicing photography, and destroying kids on Call of Duty.

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  • i’m still waiting for the ability to swtich to a “most recent” events instead of the stupid “most poupular” or w/e

  • what’s up with the font being so big now! sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! looks fine on my nexus 7, but on phone looks like sh¡t! huge font, pictures are aligned to the left. nice job guys.

  • After this last update, I only get a blue screen with the word Facebook. That’s it. Quite annoying.

  • I had to uninstall updates, because after I updated Facebook failed to open. It just sat there on a bliush black screen. Droid RAZR MAXX. Stock ICS.

  • facebook app for android still has to many problems and uses to much battery. I will stick with the mobile browser Facebook until the native app is released since it was said to be in final testing stage.

  • Google+ is so much better in every way imaginable. I find myself using it more and more recently. Google needs to integrate more of it’s services into it to make Facebook obsolete for Android users.

  • Almost only thing I need in Facebook app 4 android is the share-button. where is it? why it isn’t there?

  • Did anyone else get asked to take the survey thingy in the Facebook app? I got asked to take one and in the comments I complained and explained that their app sucks!

  • These minor “improvements” have done nothing to make the app better. It still is a terrible app full of slowness and bugs. It needs be redesigned from scratch. The Google+ app is so far ahead at this point.

  • it’s better, but I’ll be a happy camper when it’s native. very eager to see how it performs then.

  • Now its crashing on a whole bunch of people. Including me. FB you such. Do you not test this before sending out ?

    • nothing wrong on my end. what make you think facebook own every model of android phone out there?

      • Well first of all I have a RAZR which is a fairly new model & one of the more popular phones & secondly others with newer phones were having the same issue ( go read the reviews in the play store)

  • I, by no means, understand my Android. But this seems to be an appropriate place to ask one of my many questions. While I do have the Facebook app installed on my Droid I always connect to my FB account via my browser rather than the app. The browser version seems to be easier and “cleaner.” Does the app version do something the browser version does not? Why even have a FB app?

    • Off the top of my head: The app has a widget, easier image sharing (from the share menu), contact integration (yuck), and push notifications.

    • The app sucks. You are already on the right path. Stick with the browser and uninstall the app.

    • honestly the only reason i first installed it over using the browser is contact pictures. then i just got used to it. and it continues to get better. even just earlier this year it was unusable. at least now it’s just littered with ads.

    • The main reason is just for notifications, and ease of getting to the page. If you want to know when someone comments, then go “straight” to the comment, the app should be better.

  • Not even kidding, I may quit FB and wait for the herds to come to G+. If FB wants to know how to make a good app they should get on G+. So much smoother and better in many ways, just no users…

  • Still can’t share somebody others’ posts. Yes you can share a photo, but it really just downloads and then uploads it again. That’s real efficient.

    What good is a social app where the sharing part is missing?

  • Switched to Friendcaster the last time they released an update that didn’t make it not suck, haven’t looked back,

    • i noticed my friend posts from friendcaster. i havent looked at 3rd party apps since they started out on my droid 1. none of them seemed like they were any better and actually most were even worse. i didnt mind having to check 3 different feeds, cuz they were all different. anyhow… i just installed it and i already like it cuz it notifies for bdays. i dont know why fb doesnt do this at all. thanks.

  • It’s so bad that I’m learning how to code for Android, with my only previous experience being in graphing calculators and Matlab, so I can write a sexy Facebook/Twitter app.

    • i just uploaded 199 photos and a video i took at a recent concert to facebook…took 10 minutes, and then another 10 to convert the photos to HD

    • The question with that though… is it the APP? Or is it that there simply isn’t enough resources made available for mobile on the servers?

  • My complaint is with the widget it never seems to update, and it doesn’t respond a lot of the time. I plus it needs photos, and posts with photos incorporated.

  • Don’t like the push notifications like the *phone uses. That’s what text messages are for

  • I keep hoping it’ll be good, but it always lets me down heh. I thought for a second I could tag people in posts a couple weeks back after an update, but then I couldn’t. It’s so ironic that Facebook, the largest social media company in history, can’t roll out a proper application for their own website – considering the majority of their users have moved to using mobile.

    You’d think they would focus their efforts now that they know they have to monetize mobile and they’ve even acknowledged that their mobile site isn’t up to par. I have to say, I’m a bit worried that it’s become a managerial problem, because you know they have the talent around there to get this done.

  • Anyone else having the issue of location NOT being shown when updating your status? (Yes, I have location turned on… GPS, VZW, and Google). Seems like it just stopped doing it one day. Today’s update hasn’t fixed it.

  • I gave up on Facebook for Android and now I just use a browser bookmark on my homescreen. This lets me load up the full desktop browser version when needed so I can block feeds I don’t want to see and moving photos to albums (which I guess is fixed in the app now according to above). As an added bonus, it keeps Facebook out of my phone contacts and location.

  • I noticed I can finally delete posts from mobile, which has always been a buggy if nonexistent feature in previous versions. Its still slow, but its getting there.

    • That’s been around for a while. Swipe right to left and delete pops up, every time. That’s been working since before they made the camera, messaging, and other shortcuts come with the app. (and after they killed it, thank god.)

  • I ditched Facebook back in June or July (I don’t even remember) and I don’t miss it one tiny bit.

    • I ditch it radomly from time to time for a month or more, but everyone I know uses it and likes referencing crap they posted on my wall…

    • Agreed, if it wasn’t the only way to keep in contact with some out of state relatives/friends, I’d ditch it altogether.

      • I would totally ditch FB it not for that and the fact that I manage a couple of “pages” that some decent attention. It’s a great advertising tool, but it’s not as personal as it used to be.

      • An email address is required to have a Facebook account, as is a phone number (last I used it).

        It can’t be the *only* way.

        • Well, obviously not only, but it’s hard to find someone you haven’t seen in a while by guessing at their email address. Facebook you can find people with just a name.

        • You don’t need to have a phone number to use facebook. A e-mail, yes, but how else will you log in?

          • Your comment would have been taken more seriously if you spelled “Asians” correctly. God help us.

          • Whatever, I can spell dipshit any way I want (Chris) that’s my spelling. Good one trying to make me feel small, but I’m pretty sure I’m a foot taller than you and a good 80lbs on you. I guess if it helps your short-man syndrome, good for you!

          • If you think no one uses G+, you’re using it wrong. It is not facebook. It is more like twitter where you follow people or entities you’re interested in (like Droid Life or Gamespot) and your G+ feed is very much a great news source.

    • SO BRAVE! It’s this kind of helpful, thoughtful, well-reasoned commentary that elevates the discussion of social media for us all. Do you have any interesting thoughts about Microsoft or Apple products as well?

    • EFF Facebook and their hidden cookies that track every website you go to and their intellectual owners rights to everything you upload to facebook like pictures, videos, & anything you say. Plus they still keep everything you post even if you deleted it from your page. G+ doesn’t.

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