I’m no fan of Facebook, and this sort of thing just adds fuel to that particular fire.

Three things to read:

• Matt Gilligan’s essay, which we linked to yesterday. It’s called Battery life, load times, and actually giving a shit about your customers

• Nick Heer’s PixelEnvy piece, which includes this comment:

Make no mistake: this is user-hostile. Facebook is actively creating channels to continue refreshing their app in the background when the user has explicitly stated that they do not want it to. Ironically, the best way to reduce the battery and data consumption of the Facebook app in the background is to switch Background App Refresh back on.

And:

• Federico Viticci’s excellent wrap-up piece for MacStories, where he brings all this together.

Ignore the user’s needs at your peril.