Or it may result in real-world friendships.
Too bad I don't have the Facebook app installed any more.
Facebook uses location to suggest new friends
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Re: Facebook uses location to suggest new friends
#32i never use facebook on mobile devices, i have a different "supervised" profile on Chrome for facebook use and nothing else. i use it because of how many people are on there, but i wont let them snoop on me
Do you need anybody else to snoop upon you if you're using Chrome?
Has Google stopped identifying a given Chrome installation using unique IDs?
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#33I don't understand why people use the Facebook native app at all. Their mobile website works quite well and should avoid many of the issues with the app (location sharing, battery drain, etc).
I don't understand why people use Facebook at all.
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#34I don't understand why people use the Facebook native app at all. Their mobile website works quite well and should avoid many of the issues with the app (location sharing, battery drain, etc).
Facebook recently disabled their messenger platform on the website, when you click the messages tab it brings you directly to the app store to install their app. This means you have to use the App to message people. The app requires such egregious permissions that I absolutely refuse to install it. It's a shame because it worked perfectly in the past.
When exactly did the function disappear for you? I'm still using the website messenger with no issues, but I wonder are my days numbered.
They've also recently added WebNotifications support to the website messenger functionality which leverages the phone notifications as an app would.
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#35I don't understand why people use the Facebook native app at all. Their mobile website works quite well and should avoid many of the issues with the app (location sharing, battery drain, etc).
I don't understand why people use Facebook at all.
In case you're not being facetious, adoption begets adoption.
People use it because some people they like to follow aren't on Twitter
People use it to communicate with people who aren't on [insert competing messaging platform] because it's easier than convincing every friend to move to your preferred one.
People use it to track events because it has wider adoption than Eventbrite/etc. (and that platform choice lies largely with the organiser rather than attendees)
etc.
Re: Facebook uses location to suggest new friends
#36I don't understand why people use the Facebook native app at all. Their mobile website works quite well and should avoid many of the issues with the app (location sharing, battery drain, etc).
Because it offers a far superior user experience...for the times I find myself in self-loathing after checking Facebook for the nth time, at least I want to not be struggling with the interface.
The thing with Facebook is that I use it when I know I want to give away information. For example, when I'm at an airport about to takeoff to an unfamiliar city but I'm not sure which of my casual friends (too casual to send out an email blast) are at the destination, I appreciate the location-based feature of Facebook that detects that you're at an airport and makes it easy to autofill origin and destination. I want my location to be known and so, I might as well use the native app.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook recently disabled their messenger platform on the website, when you click the messages tab it brings you directly to the app store to install their app. This means you have to use the App to message people. The app requires such egregious permissions that I absolutely refuse to install it. It's a shame because it worked perfectly in the past.
I've been able to use https://mbasic.facebook.com from an Android device for messaging. Not ideal, but better than installing one of their apps.
Yeah I've been trying to use mbasic now, it's obviously a really poor experience. I also like the ease of video calling on Messenger, but I'm still keeping it off my phone. Hopefully Google Duo is better. My phone got very laggy after I installed Messenger as well. I'm very suspicious of Facebook.
Re: Facebook uses location to suggest new friends
#38I don't understand why people use the Facebook native app at all. Their mobile website works quite well and should avoid many of the issues with the app (location sharing, battery drain, etc).
Facebook recently disabled their messenger platform on the website, when you click the messages tab it brings you directly to the app store to install their app. This means you have to use the App to message people. The app requires such egregious permissions that I absolutely refuse to install it. It's a shame because it worked perfectly in the past.
What about on iOS with fine-grained permissions? Messenger works just fine for me. I've revoked everything except background updates to get notifications.
When will these fine-grained permissions come to Android?
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#39Linkedin does this too. It suggested that I connect with an academic copy editor. My only other connection? We sat next to each other at a co-working space. Of course Linkedin was not using geo-location. They must have noticed that we were both on the same network.
I can't think of a single reason to use LinkedIn's native app.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook recently disabled their messenger platform on the website, when you click the messages tab it brings you directly to the app store to install their app. This means you have to use the App to message people. The app requires such egregious permissions that I absolutely refuse to install it. It's a shame because it worked perfectly in the past.
What about on iOS with fine-grained permissions? Messenger works just fine for me. I've revoked everything except background updates to get notifications. When will these fine-grained permissions come to Android?
Android 6.0 Marshmallow has fine-grained permissions.