Facebook app did crash on purpose

Tech January 5, 2016 15:07

- Facebook has a small number of users deliberately leave the app crashing, to see how the victims could respond. Reported that the tech website The Information. The social network would thus examine whether the affected users of the app could turn back or not.

         The experiment, which several years ago was done once, it was found that the appeal of Facebook is very large. The people always came back , know an insider. Even if the app for hours not worked, the mobile version of the site was used instead of the no use of Facebook.
The reason for the experiment was according to The Information to develop a strategy for the case where the competition with Google escalates. The most powerful weapon of the tech company is the ability to delete the Facebook app from the Google Play Store. Facebook is working on a possibility of the app for Android users outside the Play Store to offer.