Facebook 12+

Name: Facebook
Rating: 4.6 (357074 reviews)
Author: Meta Platforms, Inc.

Explore the things you love

Meta Platforms, Inc.

- 4.6 • 357.1K Ratings

- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Where real people propel your curiosity. Whether you're shopping for second-hand gear, showing a reel to that group who gets it or sharing laughs over fun images reimagined by AI, Facebook helps you make things happen like no other social network.

Explore and expand your interests:
* Ask Meta AI to search topics that matter to you and get instant results more interactive than just text
* Shop Marketplace for deals and hidden gems to nurture your hobbies
* Personalise your Feed to see more of what you like and less of what you don't
* Dive into reels and videos for how-to's or quick entertainment

Connect with people and communities:
* Join groups to learn tips from real people who've been there and done that
* Turn on sharing to Instagram to save time
* Privately message relatable posts that only your BFF will get, or that Reels trend everyone's talking about

Share your world:
* Use generative AI to delight friends with custom images, or just get help with writing posts
* Customise your profile to choose how you appear and who sees your posts
* Effortlessly create reels from trending templates or showcase your creativity with a full suite of editing tools
* Capture moments on the fly with stories

Terms and Policies: https://www.facebook.com/policies_center

29 Aug 2024

Version 479.1.0

We’ve updated the app to fix some crashes, make features load faster and support iOS 17!

4.6 out of 5

357.1K Ratings

Review of FB

Thanks for FB as it has opened up worlds for family and friends across the Globe. It is also great for businesses and all the access to coaches like Dr Ramani, Mel Robins and Martha Beck to name a view. You are actually assisting in wellness and mental health apart from helping entrepreneurs.
The structure of this might need refinement. If you need help with this I am great with creating order out of chaos.
What can you improve - if we want to report harassment the options are restrictive and limited especially where people are imposters or in cases of animal abuse. You should allow the FB complainant a space to state their case. These posts should not be allowed and your people need to look out for this. We could clearly see the bots and imposters but on review your people stated there is nothing wrong.
Please be mindful of this as well as fun animal clips might be an animal in captivity who has to do these tricks. Let’s please protect our animals from media exploitation and be awake for imposters.

Why Facebook is diminishing

Facebook was created to bring communities together, which it initially succeeded in doing. Then it’s revenue model based on selling our data to advertisers began to dominate the algorithms, which pushed sensational posts to generate engagement, resulting in echo chambers that became more and more divisive and polarising. Consequently the government stepped in demanding that Facebook cooled down the rhetoric, censorship and shadow banning ensued, choking voices that they did not like.
I have found that the algorithm is choking longer articles and references of articles. It pushes short memes.
Subsequently Facebook genuine opinions, original content by my friends has diminished while advertising and clickbait has increased. Resulting in less participation and Facebook becoming boring and mundane.

Hacked on Instagram, Disabled on Facebook No Support!

I was hacked on Instagram, by a profile that somehow linked to mine, without my knowledge and without Instagram warning or informing, or blocking me. Then Facebook Disabled my account because it said “my” linked profile on Instagram goes against Community standards. I was able to delete and report the offending profile on Instagram but can’t get any support to explain my Facebook was wrongfully disabled. I’ve been on Facebook since it had only 4 million users. Never an infringement, never a warning. 14 years of photos and writing is gone and all I get to do is go around and around in circles, with an endless collection of articles and no support. Facebook makes billions but is too cheap to hire people to perform customer support. Facebook also doesn’t have any real plan for the non-stop hacking and fake profiles. It’s time to accept: Facebook is not a secure platform and it’s unsafe to have the app and use it to log into other apps.

The developer, Meta Platforms, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Used to Track You

The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

Contact Info
Identifiers
Other Data

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

Health & Fitness
Purchases
Financial Info
Location
Contact Info
Contacts
User Content
Search History
Browsing History
Identifiers
Usage Data
Sensitive Info
Diagnostics
Other Data

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Information

Provider

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Size

355.8 MB

Category

Social Networking

Compatibility

iPhone: Requires iOS 15.1 or later.

iPad: Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.

iPod touch: Requires iOS 15.1 or later.

Apple TV: Requires tvOS 13.0 or later.

Languages

English, Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Age Rating: 12+ Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes

Copyright

Price

Free

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