Mobile App Review

Facebook is a social media mobile app that was started by Mark Zuckerberg and eventually launched to the general public on September 6, 2006. Facebook currently has over 2 billion active users.

Facebook helps you stay connected with friends and family. The Facebook app is very intuitive, and you can easily create a profile, add pictures to your posts, react to friend's posts, and even join groups of people who share your interests. The design is simple which makes it intuitive, but they have tried to add too many features into this app, which causes quite a few issues when trying to use the app, the app tends to crash often, and at times I have difficulty reading comments that others have posted. There is a lot of functionality, and I believe developers can add too much functionality, which can cause performance issues and glitches in the mobile application.

Recommendations

One of the things I would recommend is removing the People You May Know feature. Most users are not interested in adding people they don't know to their list of friends, let the user choose their friends, not Facebook.  Another feature that should be changed is the algorithm Facebook uses for its news feed. The algorithm has changed many times, and the latest iteration is supposed to make your friends and family posts appear at the top of your news feed.  Many of your favorite posts and groups will still not appear in your feed unless you edit your news feed preference for that user /group to See First; otherwise, you will find them buried at the bottom of your feed.  Another recommendation is to lower the amount of sponsored advertisements that are allowed to appear in your news feed. I know that Facebook allows businesses to post ads for their products to help the businesses sell their products but I don’t enjoy having my news feed interrupted by sponsored ads for an item I have no interest in purchasing.