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Facebook app vs. facebook access from browser

I don't understand. I use the android facebook app. I get chat and notifications. Plus if I am not in the app, and someone tried to chat me or friend request me, I get a notification on the top bar of the phone.

I might not get a notification on my home screen outside the app when someone posts to my wall, but I get around that by having my email push notification when that happens.

I don't see hardly any difference between using the app, or sitting on my laptop using firefox.
 
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I use Flow, it's much more stable than Facebook for Android and has a lot more functionality. I had the free version for about a day and soon bought the paid one. The dev is immensely committed and active. He usually updates a couple of times per week. I've only had it a couple of months and it has been improved greatly in that time. The only thing it doesn't have is chat. That suits me - I use ebuddy or Go Chat when I want to chat, and I can go on Facebook on my mobile for a quick nose around without getting caught by people trying to message me. I know not everyone agrees though and I would think chat will be integrated soon enough.
 
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I use Flow, it's much more stable than Facebook for Android and has a lot more functionality. I had the free version for about a day and soon bought the paid one. The dev is immensely committed and active. He usually updates a couple of times per week. I've only had it a couple of months and it has been improved greatly in that time. The only thing it doesn't have is chat. That suits me - I use ebuddy or Go Chat when I want to chat, and I can go on Facebook on my mobile for a quick nose around without getting caught by people trying to message me. I know not everyone agrees though and I would think chat will be integrated soon enough.

Chat is already available with the Facebook App..? Atleast for me, when I go into the App I can see a chat option and it does work.
 
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Chat is already available with the Facebook App..? Atleast for me, when I go into the App I can see a chat option and it does work.

Yes, that's correct (although it's never worked consistently for me). That's what I was saying - Facebook for Android has chat and Flow doesn't, but IMHO Flow is so, so much better in every other way. It's more reliable and feature rich, and chat is readily available via alternative apps anyway :)
 
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