By: Garin Kilpatrick

The Facebook App for iPhone was the second App I installed on my iPhone, after TweetDeck. From the start I found the app very fluid to navigate through and easy to use overall.  All of the different parts of facebook are accessible via large icons. The Problem I encountered is a long delay, which is related more to the network than the iPhone itself. Another problem I faced is the inability to successfully search for any of my friends from within the App. I have over 2,000 awesome facebook friends but having this many causes the Search query to time out.

A better way to access facebook on the iPhone is by using the Safari Web Browser built into the iPhone and surfing to: http://iphone.facebook.com/. This version of Facebook is optimized for the iPhone and works great.  The Auto-complete feature even works as I type a friends name in the search box.

I still keep the facebook app installed and I use it when I want to swiftly check my inbox and notifications.  The facebook application is currently shooting up the ranks as one of the most popular applications to date and there are already more than 15,253,000+ users who have installed the app. Although the Facebook app for iPhone is not fully functional one nice thing about it is that it is completely ad free.