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by Jaleki

I loved the Friendly App. I’ve used it exclusively since it first came out, way back in 2010 or 2011. I told everyone about it. I tried the official Facebook app many times but I always delete it and returned to Friendly. I liked that the news feed stayed on Most Recent and it was easy to navigate. I like that I can personalize it by color and add other social media accounts. But this most recent update is awful. I used to be able to click a link and it would take me to Safari. Now, it doesn’t take me to Safari- I have to copy the link, exit Friendly, then go to Safari and paste and go. Trying to go back to the news feed after going to someone’s post and thread doesn’t always go back to the news feed, or it takes me so far such as back to the top of the feed. After checking notifications, I get stuck there and can’t get back to the newsfeed. There are just so many things wrong with this and I’m so disappointed. There’s a saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I definitely will not be downloading the official Facebook app, and I’m ready to delete this one. It was a nice run, but your updated look is not better than before.

by Dusk82784

This app is a fine substitute if you just want to get Facebook off your phone, but it definitely has its flaws. There's no way to upload photos into people's comment sections. I always have to go to Facebook's mobile site and do it there. There is also no way to upload video from your phone to Facebook, I'm not sure if they'll be able to fix that, but it would be nice. The ads can be a little annoying but it's what you'd expect.
If you are planning on also using this for Instagram, forget about it. Just keep the instagram app because the Friendly version is terrible. While the photo filters do work, the editing tools do not show up at all- it's just a blank empty space where they should be. I've updated this app several times and it's never been fixed, I think they only care about the Facebook portion of it. There is also NO way to receive direct messages from Instagram- I just found out today that people had been messaging me months ago and I never knew about it.
Twitter seems to work fine on here, I haven't noticed any problems, but I also don't use it as much.
The app periodically cleans itself which is good, and while it's nice to have everything in one place, just keep in mind that their main focus is Facebook so if you have other social media you might be better off keeping the original apps for those.

by Eatstorming

I'll preface this with my overall opinion: this is a decent app. When you consider how hard Facebook makes for developers to create anything that gives users more control over their experience, what these developers have accomplished with this app so far is remarkable.

That said, the latest update (8.8) made a change that seriously made me rethink using this app and Facebook altogether.

Perhaps the biggest feature for me is the filters on the feed, where you create a list of keywords that automatically hide or highlight posts. I don't care about highlighting posts, but have been using it to hide the plethora of useless nonsense Facebook forces upon us for years (memories, games, etc) and some subjects I don't want flooding my feed.

Then on 8.8 the devs moved the filters to a different section of the settings and my guess is that internally the filters section changed its name.

Result?

Dozens of filters created over years of using this app (yes, I have the paid version) wiped out. Apparently either I submit to seeing all of that stuff I filtered out over years, or manually add everything again.....

The worst part is how tedious the filtering works on this app. You need navigate to the settings, scroll to the hide by keyword option, enter the keyword, save. If at least there was an easier way to add a filter from a post you don't want to see.. But there isn't.