Facebook 12+

For a social media website that dominates the online world, I’m amazed at how glitchy the iPhone Facebook app continues to be after years and years. From phantom notifications to the endless random faults in the pages section. The Facebook app often drives me up the wall. Editing events seems to be the worst part, the amount of times, I’ve spent hours writing a carefully thought out description, only for it to suddenly disappear when I go to save has meant that I now have to make sure I always copy text and take extra precautions to make sure all the details on events appear the way they are supposed to. Recently, they gleefully announced changes to the pages section and a profile/page switching option. Not much has changed for the better. All the parts that were glitchy are probably still glitchy. Now I seem to get twice the amount of notifications because I’m notified on both my profile and my pages which is quite annoying. As much as I appreciate Facebook for being a leading social media site, I’m still left feeling there is a lot to be desired about the way the application functions on my phone. It could be so much better! A user friendly simplicity seems to be lacking.
Apart from that, the lack of accountability by the organisation leaves me speechless. Multinational companies like Meta get away with so much!!

Although Facebook is great for keeping up with family & friends. A lot is still desired to keep up with growing social media trends such as Instagram, TikTok & SnapChat. It would great to see more privacy control for individual stories, such as having specific audience categories (family, friends, colleagues). As well as intuitive & simpler interface navigation & menus. At present it feels stale & over cluttered. How about ability to add music to post & have carousel feature on video/photo posts. Also great to have ability to convert video post into reels & cross-posting with instagram, or ability to create reels from older posts & use to highlight memories. The platform is also filled with many irrelevant ads which goes against its original purpose of staying connected with loved ones. Facebook also has a history of poorly managing fake accounts & unsolicited spam. There’s also concerns of information validity with the growth of AI and misinformation in addition to privacy. Although meta ai imagine creation is an interesting feature, it useful to create personalised birthday cards. Also what ever happened to being able to use my avatar as my profile picture? It would be interesting to see what the future holds as Facebook no longer seems to captivate the younger audience.

Way too many adverts, don’t see my family and friends for adverts, my friends are all taking breaks from fb and when asked why, said sick of only seeing adverts and a waste of time. Market place is a big issue for me, I post adverts that get stopped and I have no idea why? Is it because I live in the suburb next door 500 m from boundary line of the suburb I posted in? The goods I’m selling are not brand names, not fakes? I’m often sent warnings and no idea why, can’t write in to explain anything etc. I often have rooms to rent because I have pensioner accomodation for disability or seniors but these get pulled down on discrimination to working normal people but I can’t take these people as it’s against my government laws on my houses approvals so I get taken down, have to advertise that it suits these people to attract them to apply. Then I get so many others applying it becomes a nightmare to answer as australia has a big homeless crisis but I can only take certain people but I’m not discriminating it’s my land purpose laws. I can’t ever put this in writing to get my warnings removed. Facebook should have somewhere for sellers on market place to defend themselves