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iPhone vs. Facebook

Thursday July 26, 2007 11:14 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
I was at Target today searching for an elusive pair of size 10 peep-toe canvas flats that went on sale for $6. I'm frugal (not cheap). As I'm digging through the aisle of shoes, I hear the sky open up, and thousands of gallons of water beat on the roof of the store.

Oh, happy day. It's raining like no tomorrow.

I keep looking for the little shoes as the rain comes down. Eventually I give up on my little mission and sit down at the in-store Starbucks and fire up my iPhone to kill some time. I can't drive in that weather! My tiny Hyundai will float away!Ok, I'll admit it: Like any other college student on the earth, I'm hopelessly addicted to Facebook, the social networking site for (mostly) college students. It's a great way to keep in touch with my friends (two are in Seattle, one is in Canada, another in Spain) and a great way to kill time as you wait for a downpour to stop.

I'm browsing, I'm leaving comments, I'm amusing myself, I'm happy. Suddenly, Safari crashes. I reopen it, try again, and BAM! Crash!! I wasn't even listening to the iPod at the time!

It seems to crash only when one of my lovely friends has about 20 Facebook apps on their page.

Is this only happening to me? I know some of y'all are Facebook-addicted Uni students. Do you find your iPhone to be Facebook un-friendly? Is it Safari being bad or Facebook needs to be nicer to the phone? Perhaps if we raise a big enough fuss, they'll come out with an iPhone version of the site, much like how there's a mobile version. That'd be pretty sweet!

Arn/Editor Note: We've heard that Facebook is actually working on an iPhone optimized version and it may be here as soon as Tuesday.
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katie ta achoo
Posted: 59 months ago


I was at Target today searching for an elusive pair of size 10 peep-toe canvas flats that went on sale for $6. I'm frugal (not cheap). As I'm digging through the aisle of shoes, I hear the sky open up, and thousands of gallons of water beat on the roof of the store.

Oh, happy day. It's raining like no tomorrow.

I keep looking for the little shoes as the rain comes down. Eventually I give up on my little mission and sit down at the in-store Starbucks and fire up my iPhone to kill some time. I can't drive in that weather! My tiny Hyundai will float away!

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janey
Posted: 59 months ago
my biggest fb+iPhone gripe is the inability to use mobile uploads. Unsupported, and no timeline on when there might be a workaround or something. Sigh.
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macduke
Posted: 59 months ago
i've never had any problems with facebook on the iphone. what upsets me is how the upload buttons and browse buttons for sending files are always grayed out. i wish i could upload photos on the go like any other phone. why does apple have to be so picky and lock us out?? i wonder if facebook will make an option where you can email the photo from the iphone to them and it will auto post it? that could be a possible work around.

now what about myspa...wait, that's for old people and little kids. facebook is the future. i love it.
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janey
Posted: 59 months ago

i wonder if facebook will make an option where you can email the photo from the iphone to them and it will auto post it?


I actually suggested this to facebook a couple nights ago...if iPhones can't do MMS, then it would be awesome if we could email photos instead a la Flickr...no go, at least, not yet.
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loudestnoise
Posted: 59 months ago
I use Facebook on my iPhone with generally no problems. The only issue I have is that the status update field is unelectable within Safari iPhone. The other problem I have is that Facebook's Mobile Uploads require an MMS message to be sent to upload pictures, so that means iPhone is not capable of doing so. Believe me, I've tried. I even sometimes will use Mobile Facebook (http://m.facebook.com) when I'm on EDGE, just because it loads quickly, and I can still leave comments, do general stuff. I would however gladly welcome and iPhone optimized version of the site. This would be fantastic
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samh004
Posted: 59 months ago
Do you think of of the newer apps could be causing the problem. Perhaps there are one or two that just don't work well with iPhone. After all, they are third party.
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rachaface
Posted: 59 months ago
i've never occurred any problems with facebook, but sometimes to be safe i'll just use m.facebook.com (the mobile version) because of edge speeds. that might work for you
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wannger27
Posted: 59 months ago
I've never had any problems with Facebook on my iPhone either.

On different note, I am a college student as well, and I was thinking: wouldn't it be awesome if you could give Power Point/Keynote presentations right from your iPhone? Like there would be some video out adapter that lets you connect the iPhone to a projector and you could even use the iPhone as remote. Just a thought... :rolleyes:
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sillycybin
Posted: 59 months ago
I dont have an iPhone, and I have never used Facebook before.... but I have to say, and I know other guys agree with me on this:

Flats donnot look good on any chick.... no matter how hot you are (or are not).

and ballet shoes are for ballet. just like wrestling shoes are for wrestling, and kleets are for turf sports. lets keep our shoes in their correct venue..

thank you for your co-operation.
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graymccarty
Posted: 59 months ago
I'm in Canada so I don't have an iPhone, but when I visited the states I tried one out, and one of the first sites I went to was facebook. Everything seeemed to be ok, except for the status update feature, which someone mentioned above.
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