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Does your Facebook app for iPhone suck balls like mine does?

Asked by kevbo (25672points) August 21st, 2009 from iPhone

I constantly get errors when I try to post comments and such. Am I doing it wrong or is the app a worthless pile?

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Lost_World's avatar

Nope, mine runes fine. You should try re downloading.

eambos's avatar

It’s a worthless piece of crap. It crashes, won’t let me post, etc.

Hopefully the coming update will fix these problems.

Grisaille's avatar

It sucks balls? What the fuck are you complaining for?

willbrawn's avatar

@kevbo mine does the same thing. Usually a re-start of the phone fixes it. Some days though I cant post anything on Facebook its annoying. And hopefully Apple approves the newest version soon. It dosent have push yet. But soon, and that will be a welcomed feature as well.

dynamicduo's avatar

Mine works fine.

robmandu's avatar

Just be glad you’re not stuck on the jacktastic turd that is the Blackberry app. The app on my iPod touch seems to work just fine, though.

Unless I’m doing some specific-to-Blackberry thing (like uploading a mobile photo), I prefer the mobile version of the web site directly.

It’s actually kind of amazing to me how many different render methods that FB supports:
– Full web (IE, FF, Safari, Chrome, Opera)
– Mobile web (BB browser, Opera Mini)
– iPhone web (Mobile Safari)
– iPhone app
– BB app

XOIIO's avatar

ive had the same problem (i have an itouch), you need to make sure you have a good wifi connection that is close by, and sometime you need to close and re-open the app. if it doesnt work try multiple times. that always works for me.

aprilsimnel's avatar

I’ve never had a problem with the FB app on my iPhone.

J0E's avatar

I’ve never had a problem with mine, nor have any my friends.

TheCreative's avatar

Don’t worry, Facebook 3.0 will be out soon and with tons of new bug fixes and features. You can follow the Facebook iPhone developer’s Twitter account for updates.

PupnTaco's avatar

In the meantime, I’ve found toggling between notifications and status updates allows posting comments. But I still can’t comment on links or videos.

DomG's avatar

Mine works fine. Try “refreshing” before posting. Problem might be when what you see is no longer what is.

hearkat's avatar

@DomG: I’ve noticed this, as well… but how do you Refresh? Only the Mail Inbox has a Refresh button.

willbrawn's avatar

@hearkat give it a shake. It uses motion to refresh.

hearkat's avatar

@willbrawn: I recently turned that on on the Settings, but it is not unusual for the spinning wheel and ‘Updating’ to appear on the screen and then go away and nothing changes, even though I know it should because I’ve gotten an email.

I’m hoping the new version will be better, because the iPhone App stinks, the Mobile Web version stinks, and the full version on the iPhone is a pain to navigate.

toomuchcoffee911's avatar

Mine’s alright… when viewing photos the tagging is WAY off, chat crashes almost every time I use it, and some photos just don’t show. But otherwise, it’s free and convenient.

kevbo's avatar

Thank you, baby Jesus.

willbrawn's avatar

The new facebook 3.0 is out now on the iPhone. It’s so much better!

TheCreative's avatar

@willbrawn Indeed! I am very happy with it.

Noel_S_Leitmotiv's avatar

An upgrade is now available. A huge improvement IMO.

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