Facebook Axes Groups App After Gushing Over It For Months

Since 2014, the app called Facebook Groups has allowed millions of users to interact with the groups they are already members of on the main Facebook platform as well as find new ones in a single place. Recently, the social media site axed the popular app even though executives and Mark Zuckerberg himself have been talking it up for months.

As an explanation for why it decided to kill the popular app, Facebook said in a statement that it would be better for them to simply focus their attention on the main app. Without the numbers to show just how popular the Groups app was, it’s difficult to tell if this is simple rhetoric or if the move makes sense.

“Because we're focusing on groups in the main Facebook app and on facebook.com, we are discontinuing the Facebook Groups app for iOS and Android,” the statement reads. “This means you won't be able to log into the Facebook Groups app after September 1, 2017. All of your groups from this app will be available in the main Facebook app, where you can continue to connect with all your communities.”

This isn’t the first app that the social network had gotten rid of recently either, as it’s actually the second one in the space of a week. As Engadget reports, Facebook also killed Lifestage, which is the platform that the social network was pushing towards students.

Fortunately, users won’t exactly lose their data on the apps since they are connected to the main Facebook app. All users are really losing with the termination of the apps is the convenience factor that they came with.

On the other hand, this may be for the best as keeping up with one Facebook app would already take up a lot of time. Once September 1st rolls around, users of Groups will no longer be able to log in.