It appears that Facebook is finally listening to some of its users' frequent grumbles as it is allegedly testing out an option to use less data in some Android user's mobile apps.
Some users have reported that they are seeing a "Use Less Data" switch in their Facebook mobile app, the Android Police reported. It is located near the top of the sidebar menu directly under "View Your Profile." It is possible though that it will only be there for the test phase to maximize engagement and will be relocated to the Settings page instead once wider rollout implementations starts.
So far the only tangible effect the feature has is the reduction of pictures' sizes in the News Feed in what is hopefully the first step to stop the app from consuming so much data, the Android Community reported. It makes sense for Facebook to address News Feed images first as they eat up (especially large pictures a lot of data).
Users have long lamented that Facebook is one of the apps that uses too much data (and battery life).
In other news, a former employee of Facebook revealed what happened in the company the day Google Plus was launched.
In a book called "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failures in Silicon Valley," Antonio Garcia Martinez recalled that a "lockdown" was announced in the company by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Vanity Fair reported.
The employees were said to be instructed to go to the Aquarium, which is the glass-walled cube that Zuckerberg call his office. They then gathered around the Lockdown sign attached to the upper reaches of the office after which Zuckerberg delivered a speech described by Martinez as "geek-speak," "borderline psychopathic" and "aloof."
Google Plus (stylized Google+) was Google Corporation's attempt to take on Facebook and Twitter in the social networking business that was announced in 2011.
