Facebook continues to grow. Over 2 billion active users now. It would seem that the changes they've been making are only making people even more engaged with the platform.
I wonder how many of them use it primarily so they have a FB log in to other accounts. That feature is one reason I have not totally shut off my account. I simply made it dormant so it looks like I am gone.
Have they fixed the iPhone app so that it doesn't drain battery so much? I had to switch over to the Friendly app because the official FB app was killing my battery and doing goodness knows what in the background.
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Well, I wouldn't mind those other features if there was a way to hide or disable them but I'm always accidentally tapping on stuff that I personally have no use for and it gets frustrating.
The same can be said for what Apple has done to iTunes and the Music app. All I want from those two things is the music I've synced from my personal collection but now we have all this other stuff that just gets in the way and with no way to disable it.
Maybe I'm just getting too old and grumpy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm definitely old and grumpy. I have had the pleasure of using so many apps and services when they were clean and streamlined in their feature set and user interfaces. I've had the sadness of watching too many become cluttered and bogged down.
These companies need an editor who can look at proposed new features and look at the ways they can become intrusive and/or confusing and either insist on a redesign or kill a proposal altogether. Often what is needed to grow is to upscale infrastructure to keep existing services running smoothly. Too often, features are added before the underlying infrastructure can smoothly support them.
Pacing of additions and deletions can also be a problem. If a service doesn't allow their customer time to adjust and become acquainted with new features and services, or losses of ones they were fond of, it all can reflect back on the company as sloppiness.
Facebook was fluctuating wildly when I exited. If they've settled down any, I might give them another try, but at the time so many features were not working properly and there were too many new additions and deletions that got in the way of a smooth end user experience.
I understand technology advances swiftly. But the end users are still human beings and human beings need time to adjust so companies need to be mindful of that. I'm not saying Instagram in this case is doing anything wrong or poorly. I'm not their customer, so I don't know. I'm just addressing general points other forum members have made about social media services and their issues in general.
