You know I immediatly wrote this comment off as being avoidant of the problem. Then today when I loaded a new ROM on my phone and was going through the process of installing my apps again, decided to skip the facebook app and tried using mobile site on the chrome browser.
Credit goes to you lkkiml, the mobile site is much better than the app. It loads and navigates much much faster than the app.
So true while this doesnt address the ridiculous fact that the official app sucks....the alternative is very usable.