FerrariDave

My iPhone Apps: Facebook

Now that the majority of us are now on Facebook or one of the other similar social networking sites, it was inevitable that there would most certainly be an iPhone app created to access the site while you are on the move.

I of course am on Facebook, hence why I have the app on my iPhone.

Facebook on the iPhone is particularly useful for me as not only does it allow me to quickly update my status or post a new photo quickly, but I can also do the following:

• Check new friend status updates
• Read any notifications that I have
• Act on friend requests
• Read inbox messages and reply to them

Basically everything that you can do accessing your Facebook at home on your computer, you can do on the iPhone application. Which is pretty impressive as Facebook on different mobile phone platforms tends to be a more basic version with limited functionality.

I more often than not use Facebook on my iPhone to access different friends’ profiles whilst on the go. I find this particularly handy when certain situations arise when I am out with friends. For example if a certain person (who is not with us at the time) was to come up in conversation and someone has seen something on their Facebook or has some rumour on that person, this can be quickly verified by checking up on their Facebook.

The same applies if someone in the conversation doesn’t know a particular person that we are talking about, a quick search on Facebook can bring up an image of this person. This could mean that the other person involved in the conversation may recognise the person we are talking about once they have seen a photo of them.

All in all, the Facebook app for the iPhone has pretty much everything you would need from Facebook while you are on the move, as I have said, the app has nearly everything that you can access by visiting Facebook on your home computer.