Facebook Home is creepy

Disembodied heads of friends and family staring at me from my phone? No thanks

By Phil Johnson

April 17, 2013, 11:44 AM —

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Have you tried Facebook Home yet? I haven't, since I don't have an Android device. Although, apparently, the Chat Heads portion of it is coming soon to iOS. Based on what I've seen of it, though, I'll pass on having the disembodied heads of my family and friends watching me constantly from my iPhone.

But, hey, if you have an Android device and want to give it a whirl, here's how to install it. If you've tried it and don't like your mobile device being taken over by Mark Zuckerberg, here's how to uninstall it.

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Phil Johnson is a writer and editor for ITworld.com, after having survived 17 years in the corporate wild as a software/web developer, technical lead and project manager. Along the way he also used to write monologue jokes for David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno.

In his spare time these days, when he's not chauffeuring his daughters to and from school, lessons and Justin Bieber movies (ugh), he enjoys drawing cartoons, tweeting about his life and taking pictures of cranes.