Facebook makes your Android phone run slow
Filling the phone memory with thousands of photos and videos only slows down the operation of the phone Something that users already know. However, some of the applications installed don't make things easy for the terminal either. We are talking specifically about Facebook, which will not surprise anyone by saying that consumes many valuable mobile resources What you may not have known is that by uninstalling this application, you can speed up the operation of the terminal again Something that will help many users to rethink the use of this tool.
This has been demonstrated by a user in the forums of Reddit, where he has been in charge of demonstrating with tests those sensations that some people already suspected when having the application Facebook installed among their contents. And it is that, tired of the “I think the mobile is slower”, he has decided to measure the times loading of applications when the social network is installed and when it is not present in the terminal And yes, there are notable differences.
Thanks to the test application (from benchmarks for connoisseurs) DiscoMark , this user has been able to measure the real time it takes to initially load 15 of the applications he uses regularlyWith it, he's clocked in about seven seconds in total with the Facebook app installed, without taking into account the time elapsed between the start of one application and the other, only the initial load of each one of them. After uninstalling Facebook and restarting the terminal to measure times under the same conditions, he has returned to using DiscoMark in those same 15 applications The result gives a time of about six seconds total. In other words, 15 percent more agility than when you had Facebook installed on your mobile .
With this, it is clear that the application of the social network hinders the normal functioning of the mobile, although acting differently and with different times on each mobile, depending on the usage patterns of each user, as well as the applications they use
The question is, then, what is this social network doing wrong to negatively affect mobile devices. At least in the case of platform Android, where these tests have been carried out. It is here where there is no longer a common opinion, since some affirm that the fault comes from being an application built step by step, function by function, without an order that helps mobile phones to run it easily and quickly. Others state that it consumes abusively of battery and RAM memory, even when it is not started. Question that is not far from reality either.
And, at this point, what are the alternatives? According to users who have commented on the Reddit topic that has responded to this controversy, many choose the web version of Facebook to avoid installing any application related to the service that could affect the operation of the mobile.Another alternative is Facebook Lite, known for being a watered-down version of the social network that makes much more respectful use of the terminal's resources.
