Facebook is giving up three mobile apps. Among them, there are two apps that didn’t make it to Germany and Europe, as well as the app moves from Finland that attracted a lot of attention four years ago. The recruitment is quite short-term. Facebook turns off its apps within 90 days because the user base is too small in Facebook standards.
In a blog post, Facebook announces that it will be posting three of its mobile apps. Facebook succinctly argues that interest is too low and the user base too small. The apps Moves, tbh and Hello are discontinued.
Hello is an in-house production of Facebook for Android phones. The app called “Hello” has been available in Brazil, Nigeria and the USA since 2015. Users could connect information from Facebook with their own contacts. Conversely, Facebook copies the contacts.
Now the app Hello should expire in a few weeks.
The second app is the fitness app Moves, which was adopted by Facebook in April 2014. Moves can automatically record daily activities such as walking, running and cycling if the app runs in the background on a smartphone. This way, Moves creates a nice timeline of daily activities as an online logbook.
Already at the end of July, the API of Moves will be switched off, therefore the homepage of the app offers a link to the data export.