Activity Tracking App ‘Human’ Is Now Available On Android

It’s even alleged that Facebook went so far as to perform yet another experiment on its customers by testing Android users’ dependency on the app. Reportedly, the company knowingly introduced glitches that would deliberately crash its applications (for long periods of time) to see whether or not people would use the social media site if they were unable to access it via the native app on Google’s platform.

As a result, Facebook tried to test the loyalty and patience of its Android users to the limit.

Facebook is on cordial terms with Google for now, but in case the relationship goes sour, the social networking giant already has a contingency plan, says a report from the The Information.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Facebook for a comment.

Facebook’s app-crashing test was part of a broader effort to investigate alternate ways of delivering Facebook services to Android, which is controlled by rival Google, according to the report.

This is not the first time Facebook has monitored its users’ emotional responses. It changed the tone of the user’s news feed to intentionally highlight the positive or negative content visible on subjects’ news feeds and then attempting to discern whether doing so made their own postings happier or sadder.

But wouldn’t you be more annoyed if you found out the social network crashed it on goal?

It has also created a feature to warn users if it suspects they are being spied on by government agents such as the NSA or GCHQ.

Speaking anonymously to The Information, a source familiar with the one-time test, which is believed to have taken place a few years ago, said Facebook was never able to reach this threshold.

The company is also considering other measures that would make it independent of Google Play Services, which enable features such as in-app purchases, notifications and automatic updates, including building its own duplicate Android services, working directly with handset makers or selling its own Android handset, according to the report.