@natecull I discovered this morning that I cannot uninstall the facebook and instagram apps from my Android. I can only make them not visible on my apps page. Grrr. Gotta figure out how to revoke permissions now.

@ThisQueerBashesBack @natecull disabling it is probably enough. It's just that your phone manufacturer baked it in so it's part of what's there on first startup.

Last time I looked into it, seemed the only difference between disabled and uninstalled was just getting the free space back. The apps won't do anything at all.

You can probably remove them if you root the phone, but if you're not going down that path anyway it'll probably be fine as it is.

@mike @natecull
They installed during an update (which was fine then since I did use them both), which is possibly the thing I hate most about having a smartphone. I get one with enough room for the apps I want, and as soon as there's an update I lose the space I wanted. I had to replace a phone after only a year. It had 4 gigs of available space at purchase and at the end of a year I couldn't have any apps of my own, just the uninstallable ones, and even those ran so slow as to be unusable.