Facebook. It’s the most popular social networking website on the web today. If you’re really addicted and you have an iPod Touch or iPhone, you’re lucky, because there’s an application called Facebook. To a Facebook lover, this may be heaven, but let’s take a look at this application.

Quick Review (For those that are too lazy to read anything else)

Overall – 7.5/10

Price – FREE

Functionality – 6/10

Layout – 9/10

Thorough Review (For those that want more information)

Functionality – This app just plain doesn’t work…Well I can do better than that. There are many things about this application that don’t work. When you first open up the application, you need to log in, obviously. That works well. Moving on after that, you are brought to the “News Feed” section. This section is okay, but there are slight problems. Some news items are shown twice in the feed, and some out of order. The whole feed itself only gives about 10 items, which isn’t useful if you haven’t checked Facebook in a day or two. Also, some news items are out of order; for example, right now I’m looking at three status updates: One from 2 minutes ago, one from 13 hours ago, and one from 3 minutes ago. There’s obviously something wrong with that. Right next to the “News Feed” tab is the “Notifications” tab. This shows you all your notifications as going on Facebook on an actual computer would, but it doesn’t always update if you update the “News Feed” tab. Some of the time, you need to update within the Notifications tab to actually get your new notifications. One other problem with the “Notifications” tab is that you can’t view some comments that are posted. This application doesn’t provide a direct link to the pictures/notes*, so you have to manually find the pictures. Some other major problems I have are with the chat and the inbox. Facebook Chat is very useful to me, but on this application, it just doesn’t always work. Messages aren’t sent, and messages aren’t received…’nuff said. With the message inbox, the messages don’t always open correctly, and all you see is a “reply” button. This gets very annoying when you have important messages you need to see but cannot. My last problem is that *you can’t use some features on this application, like notes, and calendar. This can also get annoying when someone comments on your notes and you can’t view comments.

Layout – I love the layout of this application. It’s very clean, and you can easily find things that you need to. So you want the News Feed? Boom. You just tap on the News Feed tab and you got it. Uploading pictures is also a breeze, except tagging and viewing tags isn’t too hot.

To conclude this review, the Facebook application for iPod Touch/iPhone is a good deal. I mean, it’s free, so you can’t expect too much. However, before you complain, it’s the best iPod Touch and iPhone users can get. It beats Facebook mobile by a long shot for usage, so if you love Facebook, this application is for you.