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I just deleted the Facebook app from my iPhone. I have no idea if it altered any of my contacts, but this certainly does scare me enough to warrant deletion.



I wish I could do that. I wonder if Facebook paid HTC a lot of money to make the Facebook app un-uninstallable.


I have suggested this before on another thread and i'm not sure if you can do it on your phone but here it goes.

Root it and use titanium backup to force uninstall, it's how I removed all the junk.


I rooted my HTC Evo just so I could "freeze" the facebook and sprint apps. I got a good amount of extra battery life by doing so.


If you go to Settings >> Accounts & Sync, can you at least uncheck "Sync Contacts" for Facebook?


Or just remove your Facebook login credentials entirely, thus rendering the app unable to do anything? (I don't have that exact model but I think this should work, no?)


I have the Facebook app forced on my Nexus One (thanks, Google!) but I never logged in and it didn't touch my contacts as hoped.


Delete facebook from your life. Lawyer up. Hit the gym.

Words to live by.


If your HN contribution is nothing more than a catchy meme, you're gonna have a bad time.

(So am I. I'm aware.)


Memes are fine, as long as they're amusing.

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