timppu: As it happens, I am starting to feel the need to create a Facebook account now too, for work and career reasons (e.g. I am supposed to follow certain things in Facebook). Phuck it, I guess I just have to do it even though I have zero other reasons to use it (or Twitter, or Whatsapp, or Snapchat, or or or...). I guess it is ok as long as I use it for "professional use" only, then i don't even mind using my real name in it.
I read earlier that the Android version of Facebook is "buggy" in that it eats your battery a lot, even if you are not really using Facebook actively. Apparently it wants to run and spy in the background all the time, and as a poorly coded piece of code, it uses lots of battery (something that it doesn't necessarily do on iOS).
Is this battery usage still a concern on Android? Can I fully close the Facebook app when I am not using it, and run it only when I want to use it?
Alternatively, if I feel I need to use it only on my PC (for work use), is it still fully usable on PC, ie. you don't really need the mobile app for anything specific? I know Facebook started on computers, but some newer social media apps are apparently mobile-only, there is no Windows version at all AFAIK.
I can't say I've noticed it myself... though smart phone batteries are notoriously poor anyway so Facebook may well be part of the culprit.
I know the messenger (chat) app (yes, they have a separate app for an integral part of the service) got a lot of flack for apparently always recording or something because it was listening for voice commands, but I'm not sure that's still the case.
But the Android FB app is pretty useless. I only use it as a last resort and would definitely advice using the full web version (though not on a mobile, the mobile site is even worse than the app) for anything you do use it for. The web version is more fully featured than the app so you're not missing out on anything by not having it.