Why you should DELETE Facebook from your smartphone, right NOW

FACEBOOK'S official mobile app is slowing down smartphones and draining battery life, according to reports.

 

If you do one thing today, you might want to delete Facebook from your Android smartphone

 

If you have the Facebook app installed on your smartphone, you might want to consider deleting it.

The hugely-successful smartphone app has been hit with controversy this week after a number of reports showed the app drained battery life and slowed phones.

Tests revealed that when Facebook is installed, Android smartphones can run up to 15 per cent slower.

Facebook fans discussed the impact of the US social network's app on Reddit, with one user publishing a chart to show the drain caused by the Android app.

The user's test involved launching 15 popular apps in succession.

Each app loaded significantly faster when Facebook wasn't installed on the same smartphone.

 

 

Reddit user pbrandes_eth was so shocked by the performance issues he uninstalled Facebook, posting: "So yeah, I think that settles it for me... I am joining the browser-app camp for now."

"Messenger seems to be worse than FB," pbrandes_eth has claimed. "Both apps individually caused a slow-down of roughly 5% in the test."

In order to perform the test and measure the impact of Facebook and Facebook Messenger, the prominent Redditor used an app called DiscoMark.

 

According to the Google Play Store listing, "DiscoMark tests your phone's performance based on the launch-times of your applications.

"Instead of artificial computations that result in numbers that are hard to interpret, DiscoMark tells you how long it takes to start your Apps. 

"This is a performance metric that reflects the real-world performance of your phone."

 

Tests show the Facebook app on Android can significantly slow your other smartphone apps

 

Reddit user pbrandes_eth also explains, "I picked a number of apps and selected 15 runs for averaging. Then before each try I restarted my phone to make sure that the experiment is as fair as possible."

Another user added: "I am not sure if the app is poorly written or just does so many things in the background that it seems that way."

"I think it had just become so bloated with features, things they kept adding to the main site that people wanted in the mobile apps also," one Android fan posted to the discussion.

"Combine this with Android's tendency to let apps run wild in the background."

Users flooded the forum with pictures and screenshots of their own tests, trying to prove that Facebook was slowing their hardware.

   

 

"Guys I just tested their benchmark on my phone (Nexus 6). With Facebook 3.8s without 2.9... Nice!" one added.

As well as a drop in speed, it appears the official Facebook app can drain Android batteries, too.

In a test performed by The Guardian, the Facebook app munched its way through an extra 20 per cent of the smartphone's juice.

Their findings showed that while the Facebook app itself doesn't consume a huge amount of power, when uninstalled the Android operating system appears to be far less battery hungry.

 

NewsNewsBlog.blogspot.com is running our own set of power tests and we will bring you a full report soon.

For now it seems the best way to avoid the Facebook issues is to browse the site via your smartphone's Chrome browser.

This isn't the first time Facebook has caused power issues on phones.

Last year a glitch within the app began sucking the life out of iPhones, with some users reporting a drain of almost 40 per cent.