Facebook is a vampire application on smartphones that drains the battery even if you don't run it

Uninstalling Facebook and Messenger, two applications with little use, has meant gaining autonomy for my smartphone and ease of use.

Allow me readers today to launch a slightly different and personal entry. To properly establish the precedents I must tell you that I have a Huawei smartphone (don't ask me the model, it is loaned after my BQ died). This smartphone has a function (I don't know if all the company's models are the same) that tells you the applications that more resources and therefore battery, are consuming in the background. A function that is appreciated, because it allows you to control and know which are the most inefficient applications, and that has revealed to me the high consumption of resources of the Facebook App.

I have quite a few applications on my terminal, but in the end I use Twitter, Chrome, Instagram, Telegram, Feedly, LinkedIn, YouTube, WhatsApp, Chrome, Spotify and Slack, which are the ones I have on the home screen. Recently, specifically two weeks ago, in this position I had Facebook, which I have replaced by LinkedIn and in the second sheet of applications I had Messenger.

Twitter and LinkedIn have private messaging service within the application (Instagram too, but I've never used it) which is interesting and allows you to communicate easily. It's funny how Facebook forces you to install a second application if you want to talk privately with your contacts on the social network.

I am aware that this rant that can bore you, leads me to say that two weeks ago I removed Facebook and Messenger from my terminal, tired of the fact that several times a day, without running either of the two applications, the terminal informed me that these applications were consuming resources and battery from my terminal.

I am aware that the applications are highly inefficient in general and have a rather poor compilation and debugging level of code. What is unacceptable in my view is that Messenger, which I have used a couple of dozen times, hopefully runs without my permission and Facebook, an application and social network that I have stopped using because it They contribute nothing and I am not interested in the content that is generated in these, they consume battery without using them.

Facebook meddling reaches a point where it surpasses the alleged meddling of the NSA and other government cyber espionage services (more urban legend than anything else), what's more, I think meddling and stealing data to sell to third parties from Facebook touches indecency. One thing is that we pay our companies to give us a free service, being we who decide what data we give and another is the execution in the background to collect data that we do not want to offer.

Do I live more relaxed without these applications on my terminal? Well look, I live the same as before, but with more battery in the mobile.