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Turn off chat. Nothing is forced onto you.
by thejosh 12y ago
Turn off chat. Nothing is forced onto you.
- Havoc 12y agoI never even turned it on. Since they split messenger off I can no longer read read messages on my cellphone...without installing a separate app. Functionality that worked perfectly fine previously until they decided to disable to force messenger onto people. http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/28/facebook-moving-messages/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/28/facebook-moving-messages/
- 0x0 12y agoI agree. It is terrible and I have stopped responding to messages on facebook when I'm on mobile.
- acdha 12y agoCan't you just open facebook.com in your phone's browser? I've been doing that for a couple of years since noticing that it's both faster and more reliable than the Facebook iOS app.
- Havoc 12y agoYeah its tedious though. So mostly I just decide it can wait till I get home and have access to a computer.
- traitorjoe 12y agoIf you're on Android, you should check out Tinfoil for Facebook. It's a wrapper for facebook's mobile page. I find it more useful than the regular facebook app. You can also get notifications back using IFTTT.
- Havoc 12y agoThank you for the suggestion. I'll check out Tinfoil. On the whole my FB interaction is fairly minimal and I expect social companies to push the limits so to speak. Such is life. This particular case was just so blatant that I can't help but react with "go shove it a place the sun don't shine" (colloquially speaking). If they added new functionality & put that into a new app...cool. But to strip existing functionality, block it from existing users and add it to a new app with extended privacy intruding permission...that is simply unforgivable in my books. (FB employees reading this - and I know you are - see sun reference above for exact instructions).
- gtremper 12y agoWhat about people that only want to use chat, without having the Facebook app. Especially since you don't need a Facebook account to use messenger.