Comments for Facebook Redesigns Mobile Touch Site

Facebook Redesigns Mobile Touch Site

2009-10-22T20:16:00Z

As iPhone and Android users, it's easy to forget that Facebook hasn't been fully optimized for all touchscreen phones. Many of us sit here from the comfort of our sleek mobile applications, never knowing the drudgery that Palm owners have to face as they type in URLs to open their favorite services. Well Palm owners, you're in luck. As of today, Facebook has redesigned its mobile site for touch devices (x.facebook.com and iphone.facebook.com) and launched a new domain name at touch.facebook.com.

]]> According to AllFacebook, the company is looking to offer a consistent user experience across all devices, regardless of how Facebook is accessed. While this is a stopgap measure until Facebook applications are built for emerging touchscreen phones, the new site is a much better interface than the standard mobile iteration. In the past, mobile site users tolerated one long stream of notifications, messages, friend requests and invitations. For a power Facebook user, the single stream display was easily overwhelming. By improving upon the mobile experience, the company is removing the barrier to photo uploads, notes and status messages for these users.

In January, 20 million people were accessing Facebook on their mobile phones. By September, that number had more than tripled to a whopping 65 million mobile users. As the company continues to upgrade the mobile user experience, the rate of content generation appears poised for unlimited growth. To test the redesigned mobile site visit touch.facebook.com.

Comment from 20617249 on 2011-03-14

2011-03-14T09:00:00Z

welcome Facebook are not working why?

Comment from 20617249 on 2011-03-14

2011-03-14T08:54:23Z

welcome to Facebook sites it is not working why????

Comment from michael on 2010-12-08

2010-12-09T00:17:22Z

What happen to facebook I can't log in why????????

Comment from michael on 2010-12-08

2010-12-09T00:16:28Z

What happen to facebook I can't log in why????????

Comment from susana on 2010-12-08

2010-12-09T00:08:48Z

Hola

Comment from Davis Anane on 2010-12-07

2010-12-07T15:50:44Z

i want to open my facebook but is not coming why

Comment from sbn on 2010-12-02

2010-12-02T13:17:48Z

When I first acessed this site it worked great but the 3rd day I tried to acess it it want let me log in an error appears that reads data dnt support it

Comment from eva on 2010-11-09

2010-11-10T04:07:38Z

i hate touch site, i need to make it mobile site again its easy and fast.

Comment from Sue on 2010-07-03

2010-07-03T19:14:37Z

I hate touch facebook, and I can't access the full facebook on my phone anymore. How do I get rid of touch facebook?

Comment from Mavis Zwane on 2010-06-24

2010-06-24T21:45:43Z

I was using touch site before and now i don't know how it disappeared i just need it to work again.

Comment from rezrael on 2010-06-24

2010-06-24T17:37:23Z

before touchsite in my N95 is working now its just disappeared i need use of it

Comment from Rachel on 2010-05-27

2010-05-28T02:52:12Z

It's very frustrating that you can't view picture comments with this new touch design.

Comment from Joe Neuman on 2010-05-22

2010-05-22T18:46:24Z

I use a Palm Pre. I liked that I can view and use my facebook account the same way I access it on my computer. As many facebook users, I have many friend I do not know that well who post a lot, so I don't wamt to see these posts. Simple solution, I created a group under friends called top and put all the feeds I want to see in the top group. Now with touch.facebook I no longer have access to my top group. I want to view it in normal facebook.com mode not x, mobile, or touch but when I try it sends me to touch.facebook.com. I do not understand why you are touting this as somthing that we love when. I'm with Serena on this. (I posted this from my palm pre and didn't even need a mobile version of your site imagine that)

Comment from Serena on 2010-03-24

2010-03-25T00:25:39Z

I HATE Touch Facebook. Does anyone know how to get the site to removed? My android won't even allow me to revert to full site anymore regardless of how many times I click on FULL SITE! I even tried reverting everything on my phone back to factory settings and IT WONT WORK! SOOOOOOOOO annoying I wanna cry. ): ):

Comment from Kristof on 2010-02-06

2010-02-06T08:46:55Z

I can't even login.
When I use my password and e-mail, I can login on the m.facebook.com, but when I use them on touch.facebook.com, it sais that it's an invalid e-mail-password combination, but it's all correct!!

Comment from Snshne on 2010-01-31

2010-01-31T19:39:00Z

touch.facebook.com does not work on my LG Chocolate Touch!! So disappointed...I can't see thumbnails at all on mobile site.

Comment from Aaron on 2009-11-04

2009-11-04T22:11:05Z

Has anyone else noticed the touch site being anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks behind on new posts/content? Right now, the latest update I'm seeing is from three days ago. If I refresh, it changes to like a week ago. Could this be because of everything going to the new "Live Feed" that isn't present on the touch site?

Comment from coltsta on 2009-10-30

2009-10-31T00:28:35Z

the touch site wont work on my Samsung Ultra Touch the 3bars come up that show its loading but it jus stays like that for ages doesnt load anything !! anybody know why ?

Comment from Patrick on 2009-10-25

2009-10-25T18:59:26Z

Very good article mate. One that is very interesting to me as I had a book for Facebook Statuses published this year entitled 'is: The Phenomenon of the Facebook Status' (www.theisbook.com). I wrote this book whilst traveling around the globe and I found Facebook Statuses to be very useful to tell what people what people at home were up to at a glance.

Something that you and some of your readers may be very interested in is the Facebook Status Generator to help on days when the creative pool is not so deep, so have a look and let me know what you think:

http://www.theisbook.com/status-generator/

Looking forward to reading more of your stuff mate.

Comment from bobthecoder on 2009-10-25

2009-10-25T12:59:46Z

THe mobile site was bad. But the touch site is abysmal, on the android. I have yet to get it to work correctly. I always reverted to the full site anyway,cos the cheap cut down mobile sites don't have all the functionality that I want and the information contained on them is cached and out of date, like days old even.

Comment from Chris on 2009-10-23

2009-10-23T22:02:09Z

Touch site won't load on my LG Xenon (AT&T).

Comment from Tyler on 2009-10-23

2009-10-23T16:43:09Z

touch site doesnt load on my lg vu

Comment from Ben Lumley on 2009-10-23

2009-10-23T13:01:48Z

Its nice. I've been playing around with it on my Nokia E71 (yeah I know its not a touch screen) and it works really nicely as my standard mobile version of facebook

Comment from Facebook Application Developers on 2009-10-23

2009-10-23T08:46:10Z

Not bad at all. This one is really clean and nicely design. It seems that it gonna be fast. Will surely check it soon.

Comment from Hugh Briss on 2009-10-22

2009-10-23T01:46:19Z

Not bad but they should leave the avatars off. Makes the text too small. The standard mobile site is much more readable on my phone and I use Opera Mobile it's touch capable anyway.

Comment from Abang on 2009-10-22

2009-10-23T00:23:06Z

Non-touch screen devices can use the touch version also. And it's better than mobile version.