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Facebook Introduces New 'Home' Screen for Android Devices, Arrives April 12th
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Yes and everything is getting posted automatically to your wall - so everybody knows whom you text, call, .... etc. This will be automatically turned on and the option to turn it off will be hidden somewhere where you never look for it.
Merge the phone app, the contacts app, the messages app, the email app, and the social network apps all into one.
Genius.
Shove aside every other app?
Retarded.
Genius.
Shove aside every other app?
Retarded.
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That's a pretty presumptious and offensive statement. Given all the outlets that kids have nowadays and most are glued to their smartphones as is, I don't see how this would be any to be concerned about.
Do you know what fragmentation is? Here is an example of fragmentation... You go to the AT&T or Verizon stores, check out four different Android smartphones, and each one has a different UI layer and looks/feels/functions differently. Now you are going to have some phones with Facebook Home, others without, and consumers are left holding the bag to figure out why their friend's phone has it but theirs doesn't. Those phones running Facebook Home will have to go through a few additional layers to get to apps because Facebook has said it is reducing the visibility and dependency upon apps. Thanks, Facebook, for hiding those things we use all the time on our phones in preference to your stupid chat bubbles.
Android on HTC versus Android on Motorola versus Android on Samsung versus Android on Nexus are each going to look and function differently. That is fragmentation.
lmao
"Sucks that I don't have FB though"
oh wow, I thought I would never hear that outta someone, ever.
It isn't like you're being locked out of of something, you do have the option of signing up. Invitations aren't required anymore.
This truly does look like an awful mess. Facebook is ad driven, now that they are in the middle of your texting conversation, you can bet all conversations will be mined and ads inserted. I will pass on this, just like im sure anyone with an ounce of (un)common sense will also.
"Sucks that I don't have FB though"
oh wow, I thought I would never hear that outta someone, ever.
It isn't like you're being locked out of of something, you do have the option of signing up. Invitations aren't required anymore.
This truly does look like an awful mess. Facebook is ad driven, now that they are in the middle of your texting conversation, you can bet all conversations will be mined and ads inserted. I will pass on this, just like im sure anyone with an ounce of (un)common sense will also.
Hey guys, am I late for the "I hate Facebook, let me complain about it on a social network" party?
I love people who assume so much about how Facebook works. Have you checked in to reality?
Twitter is actually kind of neat since you can follow famous people (if that is something you are interested in) and semi-famous people (if there is some niche that you are interested in (like bass fishing, you could probably follow the world's best bass fisher) you can follow an expert in that field and interact with them a bit). I sometimes use it to communicate with authors of articles that I read. I'm having a little back and forth with one of the authors on the Grantland website over the last few days. That is kind of neat. So it is actually useful for following people you don't know.
This assumes that everyones life revolves around Facebook , i have Facebook, just so i can be contactable by the half dozen people i know that ONLY use the bloody thing to contact people (those few people have forgotten about texts or emails).
Other than the above idiots i don't use Facebook for squat, i don't play games on it, i don't check it every other minute for a post of a friends cat and often i ignore it for weeks on end.. having a phone based entirely around my Facebook account would be utterly useless as no one i actually NEED to contact, are on it.
i am going to assume that FB will be monitoring how often you interact with certain people , how often you call, what locations you are near when you make the call etc, etc, etc somewhere in the T&C of this app, (and if they don't i bet they auto-opt you in later in the hope that 99% of people don't opt out, like the do with the mobile and web app privacy "upgrades")
All the better to market crap to you, FB, G+ and to a lesser extent Twitter are the evil empire
Other than the above idiots i don't use Facebook for squat, i don't play games on it, i don't check it every other minute for a post of a friends cat and often i ignore it for weeks on end.. having a phone based entirely around my Facebook account would be utterly useless as no one i actually NEED to contact, are on it.
i am going to assume that FB will be monitoring how often you interact with certain people , how often you call, what locations you are near when you make the call etc, etc, etc somewhere in the T&C of this app, (and if they don't i bet they auto-opt you in later in the hope that 99% of people don't opt out, like the do with the mobile and web app privacy "upgrades")
All the better to market crap to you, FB, G+ and to a lesser extent Twitter are the evil empire
umm.. yea you can just go to the Play store and download Facebook Home if you want it... same with other apps as well... what can an HTC phone do that a Moto phone can't?
Yes - I checked out of facebook (after they automatically showed articles I read on 'partner' sides while logged into FB on another tab) and then check into reality (without FB) - and I love it.
They gave up this practice pretty fast - but I just don't trust them anymore (based on a variety of incidents while I was on there)
Gotta love hands-off parenting, what could possibly go wrong?
What sort of content is your kid looking at? Who is watching and/or stalking your child through their Facebook interactions? What type of privacy settings does your child have on their Facebook Home? Who are their "friends" and how did they meet them? Who are your kids chatting with? Are your underage children chatting with adults? What are they saying to each other?
I could go on and on... your response to my post is even more alarming than the original post to which I responded.
Like you won't be able to have an .apk posted on XDA for most any device out there the day it launches... especially the Nexus!
