Android phones, apps and tablets

So as part of the permissions for the new Facebook app on android it wants permission to read my text messages, modify my calendar and send emails without permission, access my contacts, see who I've phoned and who's phoned me, turn my wifi on and off, see what other apps I'm running with most of those being new on this update.

Time to uninstall it.

How did you find this out and is there any way of checking if it's the same for the iphone?

Cheers.