The Facebook iPhone app is starting to drive me insane. Sometimes there’s a Lists section in the left menu area (including Smart Lists and custom Lists), sometimes there’s not. Sometimes the Lists toggle becomes a button in the upper right of the main News Feed screen. Sometimes it’s in both places. Sometimes it’s in neither place. The same is true for the iPad app.

I get the power and ease of populating these things dynamically through HTML5, but we still need some consistency. At least if I update an app, I can brace myself for some change. But Facebook is pushing all of these changes on the backend so no app updates are needed. Every time you open the app, you never know what you’re going to get. 

It’s really kind of a nightmare. It’s completely disorienting and frustrating. I’m surprised more people aren’t complaining about it.