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Still way smaller than the massive 541.6mb Facebook app (16 times smaller to be exact): https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/facebook/id284882215 https://itunes.appl

Still way smaller than the massive 541.6mb Facebook app (16 times smaller to be exact): https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/facebook/id284882215 https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/facebook/id284882215

macNchz 8y ago
I know a bunch of people whose phones seem to be perpetually full or nearly full. I'm surprised that Facebook hasn't seen an incentive to slim down the app to keep it out of the top few items in the 'Manage Storage' list, reducing the chance it that it gets deleted when people are scrambling to make room for more pictures or videos. Maybe they've found their users to be sufficiently hooked that it's not a risk.
ilovecaching 8y ago
If you think about it though, Facebook is many apps in one. It's a marketplace app, a social media app, a videos app, a specialty camera app... the list goes on. Sure, you can call them 'features', but for other businesses these would be entire products. Everyone complained when messenger was rolled out into its own app (now Facebook wants me to download two apps??), so maybe the size is justified. I don't personally use every feature, but I'm glad that I don't have to switch apps to use marketplace and live videos, both of which I use quite frequently.
- hackujin 8y ago
  Yea.... no thanks. It doesn't even have vital social features like looking up a past event (because pictures). I tend to have to use the website. I uninstalled the Android app and now I just use the mobile website in a browser. I do have messenger installed cause that's what I actually use.
  - gnicholas 8y ago
    I do the same, but without Messenger installed. Just m.facebook.com and then request desktop site.
  - Arbalest 8y ago
    I use an app which wraps the website up. Helps to keep the cookies at bay. Maybe.
- nitwit005 8y ago
  I downloaded Facebook lite and I never noticed the lack of any of those things. I doubt most people will. The overwhelming usage is text posts, or adding photos and videos.
  - ilovecaching 8y ago
    Well, I think it's easy to get caught up in our own use cases. There are massive user bases in other countries who rely on things like marketplace to buy and sell goods in a safe manner.
    - nitwit005 8y ago
      Evidently, Facebook doesn't think most people need marketplace either, given that they didn't include it in the lite version.
netsharc 8y ago
Wow, my first HD was 420 MB, and it fit Windows 3.1, the Office suite, and a lot of games...
- ilovecaching 8y ago
  Yeah, computers have come along way in the past twenty years.
- DrScump 8y ago
  My first HD was 30MB. Get off my lawn, you whippersnapper.

Still way smaller than the massive 541.6mb Facebook app (16 times smaller to be exact): https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/facebook/id284882215 https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/facebook/id284882215

macNchz 8y ago

I know a bunch of people whose phones seem to be perpetually full or nearly full. I'm surprised that Facebook hasn't seen an incentive to slim down the app to keep it out of the top few items in the 'Manage Storage' list, reducing the chance it that it gets deleted when people are scrambling to make room for more pictures or videos. Maybe they've found their users to be sufficiently hooked that it's not a risk.

ilovecaching 8y ago

If you think about it though, Facebook is many apps in one. It's a marketplace app, a social media app, a videos app, a specialty camera app... the list goes on. Sure, you can call them 'features', but for other businesses these would be entire products. Everyone complained when messenger was rolled out into its own app (now Facebook wants me to download two apps??), so maybe the size is justified. I don't personally use every feature, but I'm glad that I don't have to switch apps to use marketplace and live videos, both of which I use quite frequently.

hackujin 8y ago
Yea.... no thanks. It doesn't even have vital social features like looking up a past event (because pictures). I tend to have to use the website. I uninstalled the Android app and now I just use the mobile website in a browser. I do have messenger installed cause that's what I actually use.
- gnicholas 8y ago
  I do the same, but without Messenger installed. Just m.facebook.com and then request desktop site.
- Arbalest 8y ago
  I use an app which wraps the website up. Helps to keep the cookies at bay. Maybe.
nitwit005 8y ago
I downloaded Facebook lite and I never noticed the lack of any of those things. I doubt most people will. The overwhelming usage is text posts, or adding photos and videos.
- ilovecaching 8y ago
  Well, I think it's easy to get caught up in our own use cases. There are massive user bases in other countries who rely on things like marketplace to buy and sell goods in a safe manner.
  - nitwit005 8y ago
    Evidently, Facebook doesn't think most people need marketplace either, given that they didn't include it in the lite version.

netsharc 8y ago

Wow, my first HD was 420 MB, and it fit Windows 3.1, the Office suite, and a lot of games...

ilovecaching 8y ago
Yeah, computers have come along way in the past twenty years.
DrScump 8y ago
My first HD was 30MB. Get off my lawn, you whippersnapper.