As you may know I now regularly use both iOS and Android and one thing that irritates me is no matter how big the company is their apps always seem to offer different experiences – even Facebook. What really bugs me is that Facebook itself operates so differently between Android vs iOS that the actual social experience is greatly impacted.

On a functionality standpoint, the iOS app has become somewhat reliable, yet on several occasions I’ve found that my Android version of Facebook doesn’t load correctly and instead I resort to hitting Facebook.com directly. Now, putting that “quirk” aside, I’ve found that when the Android Facebook app is operating correctly, often the feed items displayed on my Nexus is greatly different than those shown on my iPhone. Where it gets even more irritating is when you then view the items from the mobile Facebook.com site only to discover that also shows different items. In my opinion something is wrong with there being three different user experiences from all three of my mobile platforms.

While I understand that iPhone users want their apps to feel like iOS and Android users want it to feel like Android, I don’t understand why Facebook feels that the actual content experience needs to vary. Quite frankly I find I’ve found it so annoying that I’ve been using the site less and less. I understand that there will never be a unity of cross-platform app layout or structure, but from such a large company I would expect the end experience to be the same. Perhaps Facebook’s upcoming changes will yield a step in the right direction.