for the forced updates i believe it has everything to do with the small fee we were told to start paying to maintain being able to stay up on fb and be apart of it "if you remember" the emails's we all were recieving about the amount it would cost to maintain socializing on fb media. So I downloaded Facebook Lite and tge privacy is way different ,way better!!! Right down to even seeing if the friend you messaged read it or not.Hope this helps.