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More significantly, how do ensure I don't flash someone's inappropriate party pictures at work?

If your workplace is one that you wouldn't feel comfortable with a quick flash of anything that might be on Facebook, you shouldn't be on Facebook.

It's not a sterile environment and you can't control what's there. Either employers will understand that and not care that you're on Facebook during a short break, or they won't understand and will be upset that you're on Facebook in the first place.

If Facebook is your phone's home screen, it is hard to not be "on Facebook" for a second.

It's not hard to not make facebook your home screen.

Is it hard to make facebook your home screen for part of the time? That'd be pretty cool, hit a button to give your phone a huge facelift* as you walk out the office door each evening, or set it to switch automatically at 5pm and back at 9am.

*if you see what I did there.

It definitely would be possible by combining something like Tasker (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....) with a custom application that swaps the home screen. Some of them automation apps support a scripting language too, so it might be possible without the custom app.

Sure, but the topic of the post is Facebook creating a home screen. If you find it inappropriate at work, then I guess you just don't use it at all, and you are not the target audience for the application.

I'll be honest FB is blocked at work so I couldn't read the OP.

That being said, I would imagine this is an optional thing..

His point is that while he's not intentionally on Facebook looking at questionable pictures, it's now on the lock screen of his phone, which he can't avoid if he needs to use it.

I'm sure like many things that are touted as essential and central features in the FB world, it will eventually have a switch to disable the feature. It's probably too much to ask for FB to implement a location-based control for its showiness.

Sounds like he isn't a good candidate to use this particular app. Seems pretty clear a younger audience is going to be the core demographic for this product. College aged and younger who spend tons of time on facebook and socializing in general and typically do not have office jobs where "work appropriate" is even a concern.

That seems a bit illogical though as it's the people with jobs that have the money that advertisers are gunning for.

There was a time when I'd say the HS & college students soon will have jobs. Now I'm not so sure about that.

"If your workplace is one that you wouldn't feel comfortable with a quick flash of anything that might be on Facebook, you shouldn't be on Facebook."

Quite a few people use Facebook at work. Theoretically Facebook wants to keep them as customers.

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