On April 4, a press conference sponsored by Facebook will reveal it’s ‘home on Android’. On this day, the Facebook home screen will be shown off on an HTC handset, on a Droid system, with Facebook in control. Picture another version of Amazon Kindle.
They’re making all the right promises, like becoming closer to your friends. It will reduce the time it takes to make posts and respond to them, they say. You can use the Facebook phone to invite someone over for drinks, dinner or coffee if they are near you. And since Facebook is your home screen, as soon as you turn the phone on, you’ll be immersed in your Facebook world. Okay, this can be a great way for FB to attract advertisers and to help HTC handset, whose numbers aren’t doing that well. However…
Don’t you get enough Facebook already? It’s easy to get on your desktop, laptop or notebook. Just?about every device from the iPod Touch to the Ice Cream Sandwich offers a Facebook app. Yeah, you can let your friends know where you are, but can’t texting do that? Plus,?if I had a phone that directly?goes to my FB page, I’d probably never get anything done. I’d be on my home page, and everybody else’s, almost 24 hours a day, which is probably what?they want. So yes, I can see a few Facebook addicts?buying this device, as well as those who just have to buy into the latest trend every time they come?out. I like to call them sheeple.?Who wants a Facebook phone? Not I.