Really? How so?

The page loads fairly quickly for me, and the design is highly optimized. Not optimized for users, mind you, but optimized for profitability.

If you don't like Facebook, that's one thing but it's hardly fair to say they're slow or poorly designed.

> Not optimized for users

It's slow and buggy and awful to use on most Android phones for most of history. It sucks the CPU and battery while you're not using it and slows your whole phone down.

> hardly fair to say they're slow or poorly designed.

No it's completely fair and totally true. The Facebook apps are really badly designed and so are the websites.

Ah maybe that's what I'm missing- I don't use their app. The mobile website mostly works well for me. They removed messaging from it because they're jerks, but you can switch the desktop mode and it works.

> They removed messaging from it because they're jerks

That's another case of bad design. Intentionally making the webapp worse for you by removing perfectly good features so they can extract more $/user on average.

They make lots of money and the make very poorly designed and user hostile software.

The Desktop browser version of Facebook is slow af. It almost feels like they are loading every single HTML element with yet another API request.