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The short version is: they don’t want to. The whole of facebook’s interaction model is to keep you on Facebook. They want you to discover in Facebook, engage in
by sircastor 5y ago
The short version is: they don’t want to. The whole of facebook’s interaction model is to keep you on Facebook. They want you to discover in Facebook, engage in Facebook, and share in Facebook. They do not want you to leave Facebook. Being able to select text and copy it is giving you a method of getting something out.
- mhdhn 5y agoI think it's pretty much a failure on their part. You could be copying something to form a post, staying in FB. This and probably other annoyances led me to uninstall the app some years ago. To FB's credit the web app works pretty great.
- mhdhn 5y agoWow, I just noticed the web app even "succeeds" at not letting me select text normally in a post. Oh well, that sucks, and maybe why I don't use it much, esp. on iOS.