Facebook is unarguably the biggest social media network on the internet but Android users who have Facebook app installed on their device — a majority of you — need to reassess keeping the official app on their smartphone.
A report by The Guardian also corroborates our claims that Facebook app drains your battery and ‘uninstalling the Facebook app saves up to 20% of Android battery life’.
Not only does the Facebook app puts immense pressure on the battery of the device but also the internet plan.
According to Antivirus maker AVG, Facebook app emerges on top among the apps eating up into your internet data plan on your device.
Facebook is not only hogging up on storage, draining the battery, eating up on your internet pack and guilty of invading your privacy, it is also affecting the overall performance of your device and slowing it down.
This Redditor recorded the performance of his device with and without the Facebook and Messenger app installed on it. He found that with both of Facebook’s apps uninstalled, his phone’s performance was boosted as the other apps started launching 15% quicker than when Facebook was being run on the device.
Facebook is Invading Your Privacy
Every app requires a certain degree of permissions from the user to access either your contacts (in the case of apps like Truecaller), images (in the case of photo-sharing apps like Instagram) and the likes.
Similarly, Facebook also requires certain permissions from your device in order to be able to function to its optimum level but these permissions account for almost all of the permissions that any of the apps need.
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