The part you quoted, yes, but not the part that kicked the whole thing off: he noticed someone's Facebook status update on his home screen widget. If he had to open an app to get Facebook updates, he wouldn't have seen it, because he had better things to do than browse Facebook.
Man, he has the Facebook app in his home screen... He sure hasn't better things to do.
If he had, he would had put his corporate email, stocks, news, whatelse.
All the simple programs have been written.