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There's no denying that 'Facebook' has become one of the defining websites of our generation. With close to a billion users worldwide if Mark Zuckerberg's baby were to be considered a country based on population it would come in 2nd after only China. With the Nexus 7 you basically have two options when it comes to accessing your Facebook account; You can fire up the browser and use the standard Facebook website, or you can use an app. Now while using the website directly through your Chrome browser is doable, the Facebook site isn't really designed for touchscreen input. The buttons are too small, the chat is a nightmare to navigate and it's just not real fun. So the next option would be to use the official Facebook app right? Well...if you've used Facebook's Android app we probably don't have to tell you that it leaves a LOT to be desired. In a word...it kinda stinks. So what's a Facebook addicted Nexus 7 owner to do? The answer is 'Facedroid', hands down the best Facebook app available for your Nexus 7.
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facedroid brings all the functionality you enjoy on the Facebook website & delivers it to your Android tablet in a way which makes it easy to share & browse everything you enjoy on Facebook, including:
• Access your Facebook news feed & friends list at a glance
• View your Facebook profile & your friends' Facebook profiles
• Share your Facebook status updates
• Share other people's Facebook posts (i.e. videos, photos, links)
• Comment, like & tag photos
• Write on your friends' walls
• Chat in real-time
• Friends list with VIP friends at the top (long-press a friend to add them as a VIP) then Online friends also displayed
• Widget allows super fast voice updates to your Profile or Pages you Admin (additional widgets coming soon)
• Pages: View Facebook Pages and post from Pages for which you are an Admin
• Places: Check-in to places, see where friends checked-in etc
• Send & receive messages
• Search/browse your list of friends and check out their info, wall, photos and videos
• See who's birthday it is & write on their wall
• View and respond to friend requests & event invitations
• Long-press photos to save to device
• Long-press posts to delete (only posts made in facedroid)
'Facedroid' was designed from the ground up to be a tablet app. The spacing and location of menus and buttons are perfect, the sizing is just right. All the features and access you are used to from the Facebook website are available right on your Nexus 7...and it looks gorgeous. From uploading pictures, to chatting with your friends to commenting on their status updates...it's all here and done right. Now 'Facedroid' was developed by Platinum Apps and they've announced that as good as 'Facedroid' is already...they are planning a 'major update' real soon that will make it even better with a number of improvements such as the ability to turn notifications on/off, photo pinch to zoom, pull to refresh, marking messages as 'read' plus performance improvements and optimization specifically for the Nexus 7 and other 7 inch tablets.
If you're a Facebook user (and who isn't these days) I highly recommend you use 'Facedroid' as your 'goto' app for using Facebook. It's the best $1.99 you'll spend today and with a bunch of cool improvements for the Nexus 7 just around the corner it'll quickly become one of your most-used apps. Grab it in the Google Play Store at the link below and let me know what you think in the comments.
'Facedroid' In The Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.platinumapps.facedroid)
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