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• At 14 April '09 - 13:01 Michael Thompson wrote:

  

  I actually prefer Facebook for reasons you seem not to like it:
  

  
  
  • Consistent UI regardless of who’s page I’m looking at and what I’m doing. It’s not the best at the moment, but they’re working hard on getting back what they lost with the recent redesign.
  
  
  • The apps are perfect for what I’m after. For example, the Twitter app allows me to tweet using any service (Web, Twitteriffic, TweetDeck) and see it appear automatically on Facebook.
  
  

  
  

  
  
  • Everyone’s using it. :)
  
  

  
  
  Another reason I prefer Facebook is that, as a web developer, they’ve done a great job handling syndication. I set a few attributes in the head section of a site and the Facebook spider will automatically pull proper attributes in for links and such posted to Facebook. The form post garbage that MySpace has is ugly and archaic.
  
  To each their own, but MySpace has turned out to be more of the BetaMax of the social networks. :)

  
  

• At 14 April '09 - 13:15 Max wrote:

  

  Ah, I understand those reasons; in fact it’s mostly the same reasons why I’m not too damn fond of FB either — or any other network, for that matter. FB may be the one that gets the most flak for privacy and content ownership, but the other networks are no saints either.
  
  Nice write-up.
  
  (oh, and there seems to be a comment that’s still waiting for approval)
  (just sayin’) =]

  
  

• At 17 April '09 - 06:45 Montoya wrote:

  

  I build Facebook applications for a living; games, specifically. I really like Facebook’s application platform, even if it can be a little annoying for users. I think it has gotten better over time though. But that’s probably the biggest reason I use Facebook, the apps. It’s a very good platform. I also like the photos feature, which makes tagging people very easy. Lastly, it’s a good way for keeping up with what my friends are doing. I use Myspace to keep up with bands

  
  

• At 25 April '09 - 17:09 Lisa wrote:

  

  My little heart is breaking because someone I love refuses to remove himself from Facebook; I have been faithful to him, but wonder (sadly) if he is out looking around for someone “new”. 26 years is a LONG time to care for someone; perhaps it is time for ME to move on….

  
  

• At 23 June '09 - 10:46 carlos fernandez wrote:

  

  I hate FB too. I have never seen so much narcissism and gossip and bragging in my life among people in their 30s and 40s—and so, so very boring. Why aren’t these people out there living their lives….
  
  I certainly hope this fad ends sooner than later.
  
  I don’t even think it’s good for people/society/etc. I mean, come on, who really has 500 “friends.” What a bunch of fakeness.

  
  

• At 24 June '09 - 12:50 Barbara wrote:

  

  There is NO privacy, creativity, it is time comsuming. When I first went on, it was cool finfing people from the pat but many are there plugging there work and not takling to you.
  
  I am considering getting off today. I hate the way, if you are friends with someone, they know it and want to be your friend, whether you like them or they want to build friends.

  
  

• At 09 July '09 - 09:24 Ana wrote:

  

  I started using facebook this year…..and at first i was a common user as i have several friends there, but lately i’ve really started to realize how pathetic a lot of these facebook users are..indeed! Their cries for attention with their status updates are really starting to annoy me…and those stupid quizes…come on, don’t they have work to do?
  
  What has happened to the real life socializing..why pretend to have so so many “virtual” friends when in reality they’re lonely users seeking to be noticed…...how sad!

  
  

• At 24 July '09 - 03:42 Anna wrote:

  

  I completely agree! I find it so annoying when my friends talk about facebook and they turn to me like , “oh you don’t have one do you.”
  “Why don’t you have one!”
  
  It is so annoying! I deleted my account , I hated it so much. People would add me just to like , stalk me. Out of my 150 friends I had about 8 real friends. And the status feed! omg.. you like comment someone , it appears on your profile , their profile and then on the home page!
  where is the privacy! lmao

  
  

• At 04 August '09 - 15:37 Ryan Joel Hughes wrote:

  

  Facebook is driving me crazy! Why can’t you limit who sees your messages? The trouble is everyone’s on it. So I can’t post messages that aren’t work/family friendly. It’s like having your boss and you parents listening into every conversation you have. Facebook is the end of freedom and independence. Time for a revolution!!!

  
  

• At 08 August '09 - 12:32 Sam wrote:

  

  YES!! ME TOO! So much narcissism and gloating and! I HATE Facebook. Thank goodness someone had the sense to DOS it the other day. Now if only more would do so. I hate the fakeness Facebook sponsors. And like other have mentioned there is no privacy either on it. Facebook may be on top now, just like MySpace WAS 2-3 years back. So yeah, I’m biding time with a passion till the day something else comes along and totally dethrones it, trashes it.

  
  

• At 19 August '09 - 08:11 andy mischief wrote:

  

  I hate facebook too and agree with your points. I especially agree with the dullness of presentation. I think one of the great things about following blogs is to see the occasional tweaks people make to their personal sites to reflect their image and mood.
  
  The active nature of following blogs and of taking part in REAL life with REAL friends is not mirrored perfectly on facebook either. In real life people don’t come to you and tell you every little minor detail of their lives, and the effort you put in finding out about your REAL friends is amply paid off.
  
  I don’t like the idea that it’s such a passive, curtain-twitching snopping process.
  
  As a result of waking up to this reality I closed my facebook account and opened http://www.myrealwall.com where I offered to post up letters from my friends. It was out of curiosity really, I wanted to know how many people on facebook would actively follow me, rather than just watch me passively. Of the 300 “friends” I had on fb, only 2 bothered to write!
  
  I’ve not opened my facebook since and my spam has gone right down.
  
  It’s quite a relief to know that people who have no real interest in me can’t just spy on me passively, and it’s a wonder to me why people update statuses so frequently in facebook to allow people to track them. I guess it appeals to some sort of exhibitionism in people, and this exhibitionism and showing off side I found a little sad in my close friends.
  
  Anyway, I think the best thing to do if you hate facebook is just to not use it.

  
  

• At 19 August '09 - 18:58 Sugar Plum wrote:

  

  I hate Fakebook with a passion. It has proven to be more trouble than it’s worth amongst groups of friends and many couples that I know, particularly when it comes to temptation and flirting (seriously, how big must you be to hide behind a computer screen and flirt with someone that you wouldn’t have the guts to flirt with in real life?). I couldn’t give a shit about status updates. Also, the relentless attention-seeking bullshit and bragging that goes on is infuriating. And what is it with people populating these ridiculously huge friends lists? Who the hell has 249 friends or 620 friends!!! Do you hand out cards at the train station with “be my FB friend” on it or something??! Do you leave every party pretending to have just made a fantastic new friend, get their full name and then add them to Facebook as soon as you get home? I’m so glad I’m not on it. Why? Because I have a LIFE and a humble telephone. My partner feels the same way too – thank God for that!!

  
  

• At 22 August '09 - 10:31 Sarah Jane wrote:

  

  I completely agree with you on hating facebook for points 4 and 5 on privacy issues and it being impossible to delete your account. Facebook is nothing more than a tool my mother and friends use to check out what drama is going on in everyone’s personal life, mainly through relationship status’, profile pics, emo drama shit my friends write on notes or profile status’ because they had nothing else to do in uni than gossip in their free time and hurt others with their drama. My life was so much better before I got involved and thank god Im giving it up for good now. Furthermore, getting stalked from random strangers and ex-boyfriends profiles randomly coming up as suggestions of people to add when you forget to block them makes things so much more dramatic when all you wanna do is move on in life and forget them.

  
  

• At 29 August '09 - 17:02 No wrote:

  

  Social Networks sucks. Phone me, Email me, or fuck off.

  
  

• At 07 September '09 - 23:40 Adrian wrote:

  

  I seriously hate facebook. It has serious privacy issues. I don’t want people knowing my business, for this reason I deleted my account. I never ever filled in a profile submitted photos or anything like that thank god because I hated the concept so much.
  
  What about privacy. I can guarantee you we are all in other peoples photos somewhere along the line, what happens if you don’t want to be in these photos? How do you stop this?
  
  This is a serious failure in Facebook.

  
  

• At 15 September '09 - 20:28 Phil B wrote:

  

  Facebook is for losers with no life.
  Get out and do something with your lives, you pathetic losers!!!!

  
  

• At 23 September '09 - 00:47 Corey wrote:

  

  I just went onto Facebook for the LAST time. I’m forty years old and tired of hearing my “friends” brag about their wonderful kids. Their wonderful vacations, jobs, cars, husbands, wifes, etc! They lie about their “wonderful” lives to make themselves look good. It’s like a high school popularity contest online. It’s sad!
  
  But what I’m really tired of is the people (mostly housewives) who feel they need to give everyone a blow by blow account of their day: “Just took the kids to soccer practice.” “Just finished cleaning up the house!” “Sitting down with my wonderful husband to enjoy a glass of wine!” One “housewife” who I knew years ago, actually wrote, “It’s so important to be a good mother.” – And she was the worst drunken parent I ever knew!
  Ahhhh! Thank you for this site. I just removed my bio from Facebook.

  
  

• At 23 September '09 - 21:25 Jen wrote:

  Back in 2007 I tried to quit facebook….going through each friend and deleting them individually, getting rid of all wall posts, everything I wrote, everything everyone else wrote (on my profile). My profile was blank and squeaky clean when I deactivated it. Two years later I activated it and everyone I had as a friend was “suggested” as people I should again add as friends. Creeped me out. I deleted the profile using their “new” deletion option, but I’m sure that is pretty much the same thing. Everything will still be there.

  
  

• At 27 September '09 - 06:45 K. wrote:

  

  Actually, it is possible to delete your account. See: https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
  
  I guess you can cross that one off your list!

  
  

• At 05 October '09 - 03:07 Dolores Zombory wrote:

  

  I ended up on facebook because old friends who would never go on myspace would actually sign up for facebook, saying it was more private.
  When I first joined I felt like I was inside a marshmallow, trying to find familiar faces who eventually poked through. I saw nothing but white space and a few suggestions for “friends” (aka famous dorks).
  
  I still have myspace, but most of those friends I have never met in the flesh and know through message boards and common interests (film, actors, art, photography, etc.) My actual coworkers, former classmates and local friends are found on facebook. I think many of the apps are embarrassing to be involved in and yet, I am addicted like crack to Sorority Life and, yes, My Fairyland. How can I explain this to anyone? I refuse to get involved with any new apps because I need time to clean my house and I have put off my ebay plans for too long as well.
  
  At first I was excited to find many coworkers on facebook but now I think, the more I add, the less privacy I will have at work, which really should be put away when I go home.
  
  I think my reasons for being unsure about facebook are different from the author’s reasons for hating it. For me it’s about wasting time and feeling suckered in because “everyone” is there. It would be hard to leave, though, because I would miss being able to see the newest photos taken by my real friends at real events. Unfortunately, facebook gives these friends an excuse to NOT send pics anymore. “Don’t you have a facebook? Go look at my pics online.”
  
  I was unaware of the redesign issue, so now I feel like more of a sucker!
  Still, I don’t plan on deleting anything right now or just leaving it. I have always been fairly cautious about what I post there. I will just continue to be cautious and use it for my original intent, easy access to friends updates, and not a lot of other crap.
  
  One other thought, sort of off-topic…If a new friend/aquaintance refuses to add you to their facebook, should you be insulted or flattered? Maybe they see you as too real or important to get tossed into the face salad or they know they are cyber-crack addicts and aren’t proud of what they have on their page and don’t want you seeing that side?
  Still sorting through that thought. Thanks for a great article.

  
  

• At 16 October '09 - 04:36 seph wrote:

  i hate facebook i have now produced four accounts and the one i have at the moment i cannot use because they are saying they have sent me an email with a password to confirm my email ad is real, my email ad IS real. so i then click on the bit that says i havent recieved the email and click again and again and about 100 times later i have no email what a load of rubbish. i have given up. the worst thing is that no one i know has had this email or had to confirm there email ad. SICK OF IT!!!!!!!
  so im with you.

  
  

• At 16 October '09 - 14:21 Howard Lauther wrote:

  

  Facebook reminds me of a broadcast letter that a family member sends to friends and other family members around Christmastime, e.g., “Jimmy got a job at Wal-Mart and he’s now saving his money for college, where he plans to become either an aerospace engineer or a rock star.” Sort of like a gossip column for reg’lar folks. I cringe when someone informs me that I’ve been added as a “friend” to their Facebook account. If I don’t respond, will he/she think I’m dead or perhaps ungrateful?

  
  

• At 19 October '09 - 00:55 Derek wrote:

  

  I hate FB as well.. I have deactivated a few times and found it strange that I couldn’t delete it forever because that would be infringing on my privacy. I checked around.. clicked on Privacy at the very bottom of the page and then Privacy Help (I think) and there is a link where you can permanently delete your account.

  
  

• At 21 October '09 - 09:30 Tim wrote:

  

  Is it hatred or jealousy. I dislike All social networking sites which somehow sucks in thier users so they don’t get out much. Itdepends on what kind of person user

  
  

• At 27 October '09 - 09:03 Nicky wrote:

  

  Facebook drives me insane to be honest. I can’t even get past the home page, as every time I try, it is in Russian. Or Turkish, and one time it was in Finnish I believe. It happens no matter what computer I’m using, and no matter how many times I switch the language, it changes right back. Gah.
  
  I’m also irked by Facebook’s TOCs and not being able to delete your account (Though, I hear many social networks are like this…). Apps overall annoy me, so I avoid Facebook all the more because of it. >.

  
  

• At 05 November '09 - 01:03 Steve wrote:

  I agree 100% It’s actually quite refreshing to see so many comments sharing my loathing of FB. My friends(people that I actually hang out with) have finally accepted that I will not sign up and have resorted to phoning or mailing me when they want to talk to me. I still get e-mails from FB reminding me that somebody wants to be my friend and that I should sign up…..and, oh, here are some other people you might know… nope..no fking clue who they are..and why the fuck should i care? As someone so perfectly put it above. Phone me, e-mail me, or fuck off.

  
  

• At 06 November '09 - 23:59 Kate wrote:

  

  I’m 41 and a technophobe. My pre-adolescent son helped me set up the facebook account – 4 hours ago. I have already deactivated it! I spent over an hour “oggling” names from my past and seeing “who they know”. I hate this! I hate being able to “oggle” my ex’s profile and seeing who his new “friends” are! Frankly, it’s none of my business, and if I had actually stayed long enough to acquire any “friends”, he too could have peeped at them. What a big pile of baloney. I like my privacy and I know who I know, no-one else needs to know who I know. I’m still fuming over a few of those “girly-friends” on my ex’s profile! I thought one of them was MY friend (you know, as in real-life, sympathetic towards me in the wake of divorce kind of friend). Hmph. Good-BYE Facebook!

  
  

• At 07 November '09 - 23:11 leef wrote:

  

  There’s just enough in facebook that I like to keep using it but if there was an alternative with a simplifies UI that did what I wanted and had the community I’d leave quickly.
  
  What I don’t like tends to be relates to UI, and UE. I hate that visiting facebook pages on a mobile phone randomly shoves me into their garbage mobile, and iphone site versions. Bastards. I hate the UI clutter. But like you I also dislike seeing a stream of status updates that do not interest me. Thankfully there is a remove button that can hide status updates per friend, and per spam-app. We all get stuck friending coworkers, and spouses who’s posts are like a drill to the skull. I haven’t found how to hide your own posts from select friends which would be nice on a per post and a per person basis. Who wants to defriend someone?

  
  

• At 08 November '09 - 12:53 Hectique Prognosis wrote:

  

  I hate Facebook. It is easily the biggest timewaster there is. Its like a soap opera (with the user as the main character), except much MUCH duller. Its given people who who would never have ventured near to a computer, a reason to use it. What I particularly dislike is when Facebookians feel aggrieved about some topic, they do the proactive thing and FORM A GROUP. Which then bitches about the said topic for about 3 days. And then dies a muted death. Is this the face of the future? Where activists are too lazy to actually (God forbid… DO SOMETHING) but sit in front of their computers and moan about it anonymously in a fictitious world called the blogosphere? I bet the bad guys must be quaking in their boots.. Oh NO… A Facebook group!!!! We’re fucked!!! I doubt it.

  
  

• At 13 November '09 - 07:02 DNSO wrote:

  I used facebook, and then made a conscious decision to stop. I sit inside enough as it is already. If I want to speak with someone I will call them, email, write or meet with them and talk face to face.
  I think the principle of facebook fine to a degree but people use it so much that it is replacing real social networking and I find that people are losing their social skills, life is not tweet or a poke and people are forgetting that and it is a little scary about the privacy content. I dont like people silently stalking my affairs… its weird. Facebook is for losers.
  just two cents from a man with holes in his pockets

  
  

• At 13 November '09 - 12:00 george wrote:

  

  I F*ing hate facebook, terrible…

  
  

• At 13 November '09 - 17:28 Alicia wrote:

  

  I really HATE facebook I’ve tried many social networking sites and I found facebook to be the one I hate the most. I still love myspace and wish everyone else still were on myspace.
  
  Alexa.com has facebook set as the #2 site with the most amount of traffic. Google.com is #1, Facebook #2, Yahoo #3 and youtube #4. Myspace is #16. Why do you people like facebook so much? It really surprises me and kind of upsets me.
  
  Here are my reasons for hating facebook:
  
  1) The profiles- I dislike facebook for the same reason the writer of the article hates it. I want to do something to my profile. I want to express myself. Facebook doesn’t let me do this.
  
  2) Farmville, Mafia wars, Vampire wars, etc…. ARE YOU EFFING SERIOUS??? WHAT IS SO FUN ABOUT THESE GAMES????
  
  3) The whole “tweeting” thing (I hate Twitter too). Wall: “Gotta go to work now”, “I just took a piss”, “Just finished my homework”, “I just ate some spaghetti”.... WHO CARES??? I don’t need to know what you’re doing every second of the day.
  
  Those are the three things I hate the most about facebook. I also hate how I can’t look at everyones profile. So many times I will see “JOHN DOE’s” name and think that I know them but their profile pic isn’t clear enough. I don’t want to add them because it could be someone else. But if I don’t add them, I may lose a potential reconnection with someone.
  
  Unfortunately, I do use it because “my friends are on it”. I’m never on it though because I really hate it that much. I am a fan of the dislike button on facebook and I just really dislike Facebook. There is NOTHING good about it.

  
  

• At 14 November '09 - 04:23 van wrote:

  

  fuck u assholes….face book rocks….suck my dick…..motherfuckers…....

  
  

• At 14 November '09 - 20:45 Midna wrote:

  

  I never really liked Facebook since I first started using it, they made many changes I don’t like, too many limitations like you said. When you report someone or something for anything. Facebook doesn’t do anything about it. What is weird is that I had an account awhile ago and for some dumb reason, it got disabled. I emailed them and I don’t think they emailed me back.
  
  The only thing I like about it, is Farmville and CafeWorld (which also has unfair things about it too).
  
  I do like the name Facebook, they picked a good name. If only I was really smart at creating a website. I could create a webpage that is a lot better then Facebook, a site that would crush Facebook like Godzilla.
  
  I also don’t like that they have adult content on the site (mostly apps, about shagging, Yes, I prefer to say shagging).
  
  I don’t like their search anymore, it was never fully accurate.
  
  Also many other stuff too.
  
  If I get disabled this time. I’m pretty sure I will leave it for good.

  
  

• At 14 November '09 - 22:58 Hunter wrote:

  Oh, thanks so much for posting this.
  I have a hard time finding others who share my hatred of Facebook, and I totally agree with all of your reasons.
  
  Of course, there’s also the fact that they disable accounts for no reason, then leave you no means of contacting them. This has happened to me once, and twice, this has happened to my brother. When it happened to me, it took me around an hour of searching to finally find a page to contact them. Oh gee, isn’t it a normal thing for sites to have their contact page link sitting there in plain site? Why can’t Facebook do that?
  Their navigation is also one of the many reasons I hate it…... if you’re new, then good luck doing anything. It defys the most basic principal of web design…..

  
  

• At 18 November '09 - 07:09 Simi wrote:

  

  After reading a few blog postings about people loving Facebook, it was nice to read about the frustrations that you have with the social networking site. The whole idea behind the applications and the changes to the site are in a larger plan for the Facebook brand to make some money. The advertisments are getting incredibly more accurate on selling you things you like, all because of the information that facebook sells to them that is found directly from your profile page.
  
  This article in the Guardian is something I think you would enjoy reading – it’s all about why the author hates Facebook, and it really delves into the people buying and selling our privacy…
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/200..

  
  

• At 18 November '09 - 17:33 James67578 wrote:

  

  Ya, I liked facebook until my account got dissabled, FOR NO GOOD REASON! fuck you facebook.Im going to myspace

  
  

• At 20 November '09 - 02:35 Grae McBride wrote:

  

  Facebook is disgusting. It is so flat and invites young people to be inactive and dull. Young people do not have much to do as they do not have real jobs and no understanding for the world around them. They waste their free time reading what other people have to say about nothing. It is such a nonconstructive hobby. I often reffer to Facebook as ‘LIFE’ to my peers as they seem to waste their lives doing it.
  
  So what if “everyone is doing it”, what happened to the individual? In a way, Facebook almost seems invented for the purpose of dumbing people down and making them uncreative. Which would be perfect for our society that takes advantage of one another in secrecy. It promotes the idea that ALL that is worth reading, learning and understanding in the world is whatever stupid peers have to moan about through their status updates.
  
  As EVERYONE would know you can post pictures of yourself on Facebook. Some really self-concious people who (for the purpose of looking amazing) will heavily edit their pictures. This actually IS as bad as seeing airbrushed models in magazines.
  
  Facebook is like the Britney Spears of the social networking scene. It got to its peak by a spark of publicity and luck, and then to maintain its authority, added unnecessary feats to itself to keep it alive and running. Facebook WILL eventually die. Thank god. However, we just have to let it deflate, get wrinkles that no facelift can fit and finally be euthanized by some other fad.
  
  By the way, I am a ‘young person’ too so do not disregard my views on young people.

  
  

• At 22 November '09 - 14:06 Teri wrote:

  When I first joined Facebook a year ago, it was exciting as I was learning how to use it and talking to some friends I haven’t spoken to in years. Nobody really knew this page, I had about 20 friends, maybe 30. At the end I had about 300 friends (I knew hardly half of them for real), every minute I got a pointless notification about a new test or a game I should play, an invitations to weird groups and friend requests. I spent on Facebook hours every day and having a phone with internet wasn’t helping much either. It started getting on my nerves but it was the fact that I couldn’t delete it forever that made me incredibly angry. You have to go throw many steps to finally live your life again. Here is the link:
  http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php..
  Now it’s finally over and I can be myself again. Enjoy your freedom:)

  
  

• At 25 November '09 - 08:40 Sako wrote:

  

  Meh, don’t like Facebook either. Many of my friends asked me to join but I never really got into it and don’t ever want to. I’ve personally seen what it can do to people and I have more important things to do.
  
  Anyways, I wanted to post the solution for all of you here in case you want to delete your account rather then “deactivate” it lol.
  
  https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
  
  Peace

  
  

• At 29 November '09 - 04:56 Loocyy! wrote:

  

  urgh. i so agree with you.
  i hate facebook with a passion.
  like bebo, twitter, faceparty and others it’s grown old.
  at first, yeah, it was a bit of fun, talking with friends and everything but now, all my friends are facebook addicts. they are almost like robots, just facebookfacebookfacebook. get a lifeeee people! its crap.
  
  i agree with everything you said above.
  
  DIE FACEBOOK!

  
  

• At 29 November '09 - 16:18 abelle wrote:

  

  I agree with the write up. I am probably the only girl who is not on facebook. Infact one of my my criterias for dating guys is one who is not on FB. I find it has a very ‘common’ feel to it. Its the wannabe ‘bar stars’ and wannabe anythings that end up there. It cannot be good for mental maturity let alone developing as a human being. Maybe this is a way to separate the ‘masses’ from the exclusive crowd. I don’t care what people think of me I’d rather belong to the exclusives anyday.

  
  

• At 30 November '09 - 08:48 Joe wrote:

  I hate facebook because it has ruined my relationship. I ruined my relationship with my wife. I found over 300 friends and became glued to facebook. Eventually, women that I like started to email me as we became friends. I was 1, then 2, then 3, up to 5 women. I was emailing them and telling them that I love them when all along it was only the feeling that I loved. Not the actual women. I am a jerk and I am so down on myself. I have no one to blame but myself. But, I hate facebook and I will never go back. I cringe when I see it on tv. “Become a fan, etc…” I cringe. I have done this to my wife and my kids and me and I am going to fix everything and make it right again. I hate facebook for it has helped me ruin what I truly love. I just never knew it until now.

  
  

• At 30 November '09 - 10:33 Tommy wrote:

  right there with ya, i hate Facebook. why does Facebook make you enter EVERY SINGLE THING about yourself?! Please enter: Name, Age, Sex, City, Country, Website, Marriage Crap, Address, oh, and theres 1000s more to enter! god!

  
  

• At 30 November '09 - 16:57 Julia wrote:

  Back in ’02/‘03, I was a blogger queen, I admit. But at least socializing then involved being creative- making unique templates (some people are REALLY talented at this), showing yourself as an individual, posting poems and artwork, posting your thoughts ABOUT things…even if it was a drama fest sometimes…
  
  Facebook is the exact opposite. Facebook is a high school popularity contest where everyone competes to show the exact same image- that they are prettier, funner, and more popular than they actually are. Everyone has to have a personal photo of themself in similar fashion. Everyone must post as many “fun” aka party or kids’ pictures as they can. Everyone must status their everyday activities. Everyone must have as many friends as possible. Everyone has the same background, same applications, same thoughts, same daily life, same kids, same physical appearance, same group pictures….everyone is PRETTY, and FUN, and PARTYING, and THEIR LIVES ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOURS!
  
  Facebook has also replaced ACTUAL keeping in touch. I hate that most of all. Friends “poke” you, shove information online that you and your dog are supposed to be seeing, and consider that keeping in touch, rather than call or try to get together.
  
  It literally makes me sick to think that we’ve bought into this fake esteem booster and stalker system in such huge amounts. Unfortunately, it is how my school program communicates, so I am keeping it up until graduation from my degree. Then, everything connected to me is coming down. I am an individual, and facebook is a mockery of everything that makes me me. I even put a stupid bar picture up the other day just to stop people from asking if I’m “depressed” because I don’t post pictures, and therefore must be sitting at home, twiddling my thumbs.

  
  

• At 01 December '09 - 08:05 Robin Laker wrote:

  

  OMG you people are mad. I cant belive you hate facebook! Its the best thing ever. Its an insperation to thousands of people. It has everything u ever wished for , e.g : It has games , you can creat your own world , you can chatto people online , jion groups like .. kill people who hate facebook , find friends infact i reccomend facebook the best sight you could ever go on and this the worst. Also O.M.G how old are you people? Like adults i am 11 for god sake and i have a better piont than all of you retarded idiots do. HAHAHA!

  
  

• At 03 December '09 - 14:30 lorna wrote:

  I agree, i hate facefuck! it’s so fake,it helps form convienient friendships, heightens nosiness,causes upset,jealousy,bullying and promotes gossip. People show off pictures of their children on the net which i think is not just daft but dangerous.It is poison.People get sucked in, become clicky and forget how to socialise in real life! It’s a load of rubbish I deactivated my account and am also very annoyed that i could sign back in if i wanted to which i dont.

  
  

• At 03 December '09 - 19:42 Kay wrote:

  Thank you! I could now forward this blog to my friends who constantly invite me to join Facebook no matter how many times I refuse. They just don’t get why I don’t want to. Oh, how I loathe social networks.. including Twitter!

  
  

• At 07 December '09 - 14:53 I.F wrote:

  

  Facebook is crapola. Its for ppl who are useless on a computer and can’t write original scripts. Everybodys page is the same. Very lame indeed…
  Die FB! Die FB!
  Who gives a toss what little Johnny from grade two is doing now. You have not seen him since 1973 and you had erased him from your memory till now. So let little Johnny die along with FB.
  Need another reason FB is bad?
  How about the media flashing up your profile picture on the news when you murder that FB stalker?
  What about when little Johnny writes on your page…...Man you were so drunk and puked everywhere at the brothel on the weekend.Then your boss or employer reads it?
  For the record…I have hacked a few FB pages just for fun.Well lets call it sport!
  Google is your friend….......

  
  

• At 11 December '09 - 17:24 i hate faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccccccceeeee book wrote:

  

  i hate face book becuse you have to check your hotm@il but i did not have a hotm@il so i made one then i got banded for not checking it before that is why i hate it and check out lady gaga and tiler swife OH DO NOT GO ON FFFFFFFAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCEEEEEE BBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKK short face book

  
  

• At 12 December '09 - 05:52 Dankoozy wrote:

  

  I hate facebook more than all the rest of you put together
  
  I especially hate the way that when someone unfriends you, no notification is given. perfect for sneaky little bitches who can be a bitch from the comfort of their own screen without the risk of any real-life confrontation which they are completely unable to deal with

  
  

• At 12 December '09 - 16:51 Martin Grant wrote:

  

  I understand in life everybody wants to be admired, talked about and ultimately just accepted- on FB though there is so much narcissistic bullshit it’s just boring, I don’t care if you have 794 friends
  
  If you can’t recite their first and second names and a few basic facts about themselves then are they a friend? certainly not by definition
  
  It’s like a little game ‘collect the social status points’ Ridiculous and i cant be arsed to a part of it, I’d rather be doing something half decent like getting steamingly drunk and NOT telling hundreds of people about it for a change
  
  or by NOT playing some bloody ‘mafia wars’ game and instead making some money, maybe even by sleeping instead of googling the answers to the facebook IQ tests
  
  Jog on Fackbook… and as a earlier commenter so admirably summed up
  
  “Social Networks sucks. Phone me, Email me, or fuck off.”

  
  

• At 12 December '09 - 17:57 Alan wrote:

  I hate Facebook with a passion. Between that and Twitter I’m convinced the majority of people on this planet are self absorbed idiots.

  
  

• At 15 December '09 - 10:18 yateesh wrote:

  

  yea i agree with you… like tohtally!
  facebook, its a piece of shit, ill people have designed it. i just hate the apps. its so fckin moronic crap….arrggh
  Facebook makes me mad, i puke on all FB pages, yea thats shitloads of puke.
  and i agree one reason facebook is so popular is coz all our lame friends decide to ride their asses on it, but i aint goin to facebook. though all my freinds are on facebook, fuck it, i just wont go back to facebook. its very annoying. those stupid games and crap… yucks man. why do people even bother doin all this shit anyways?
  i wont go to facebook even if i’m paid a million dollars, fuck no.

  
  

• At 20 December '09 - 00:06 mark wrote:

  I hate Facebook coz my girlfriend is always on it. She is on it when she is at home. We go out she is on it.

  
  

• At 27 December '09 - 20:33 mark wrote:

  everyone who is on Facebook or myspace .get a life. There is more to life than that shit. talk about other shit. Talk to people face to face

  
  

• At 30 December '09 - 10:20 Christina wrote:

  

  I started hating Facebook, when I learned that companies that have bought it, use our information for their personal gains. And even WORST they can use photos and other PERSONAL things, for their own purposes w/out even asking our permission.
  
  I deleted my account some 3 months ago. HARD time doing that! My picture is still on Google, when I give my full name there. And moreover now everyone thinks I ‘ve deleted him, when I just deleted myself.
  
  I have wasted so much time on Facebook, I regret the day I sign up (I was the last to have Facebook among ALL of my friends and the first to delete it)

  
  

• At 04 January '10 - 16:04 Darrin wrote:

  

  Even though I have never EVER signed into Facebook, nor have i ever had an account, a friend told me there were dozens of pix of me on Facebook.
  
  I have no way of seeing said pics unless a friend signs me in on her account. I have no way of monitoring who puts my photo up, or what they put as a caption.
  
  Facebook is ego-massage for those with nothing else to be proud about.
  
  My favourite anti-Facebook tale is of a lady who posted “Yay! I got the job with the Tech firm! Now if only I can wrap my brain around doing work I don’t respect just for the money.”
  
  She then got a call from her new employer, who rescinded the offer, saying they do not hire people who don’t respect their company.
  
  Touche!

  
  

• At 09 January '10 - 10:51 Josh wrote:

  I couldn’t agree with this blog more. I HATE Facebook and all the useless status updates everyone seems to feel the need to update every 5 minutes. I don’t care what your doing, how your day is going, how miserably cold you think it is outside, or who your top football picks are. The World is headed downhill and hopefully Facebook goes down with it.

  
  

• At 13 January '10 - 21:01 Sarah wrote:

  

  I too dislike Facebook and also have a hard time of finding other people who feel the same way i do about this awful networking website.
  
  The first major issue i came across with their networking website is invasion of privacy. Everytime you make a comment to a friend/family member all people on your facebook can see this on the home page. Even if you leave a picture comment to somebody this too comes up. It doesn’t even allow you to upload a picture without annoucing it..
  
  The second issue i came across was dullness. Why create a networking website and make it so your wall is so plain? How can you express yourself as a person if you can not create your own backgrounds etc?
  
  Thirdly wall posts. There is no function to actually approve wall posts before they display on your wall. What if somebody said something irrelevant to you which you didn’t want annoucing to your whole friend list and you didn’t feel it was appropriate to approve that particular comment? Then it’s too late it’s already on your page for your whole facebook to see.
  
  Fourthly, people seem to think it is relevant to post their whole entire life story on their wall. Maybe it’s to gain attention but mostly nobody cares.
  
  Also what about stalkers? People can type in your name and immediately get access to seeing your picture. And then they add you and you feel under pressure to accept incase they see you in person and wonder why you didn’t approve them. When the real issue is you just don’t want them to nosey at your every status update!
  
  Lastly, the game apps. I am constantly getting invites to groups, games which i don’t really care for. People really need to get a life and escape from this awful networking website. Myspace is so much more appealing a real shame everybody moved to this awful site!!

  
  

• At 18 January '10 - 19:40 Damaris wrote:

  I started on Facebook because it was the only way to keep in contact with my son, deployed in Iraq. All I really have to say is: Let me kill those bleeping apps, please! I have removed good, close friends from my facebook because I simply cannot tolerate page after page of: I baked a googleplex of cowflop pies in Cafe World! I found a leprous, five legged calf in Farmville! The Exxon Valdez has run aground in my aquarium, please help! I play a couple, but like a polite, well rounded and decently brought up person, I decline to share spam about my happy little flash pet. Please, please, please people! Do the same. And Facebook, please allow us to completely, TOTALLY block this @#$#.

  
  

• At 18 January '10 - 23:09 Marie wrote:

  

  Wow. Everyone here has been able to describe to me some of the many reasons why these “social” networks have gone bad. Huge companies like facebook

  
  

• At 20 January '10 - 16:20 abbie wrote:

  Facebook can and should be used as a constructive networking tool. Put in the wrong hands it can cause havoc and wreck lives. I cringe at those who share information that really should be done in the privacy of a Therapist’s office. And how many drunk / agnry postings have cost personal embarrassment and shame the next day. Once its out there is gone…
  
  I think Facebook is popular for that very reason. People don’t realize how commercial it has become and that Facebook strategically uses all the “reasons” we hate facebook—to appeal to a social need that reinforces “peer pressure”. Example… when I deleted my facebook account I didn’t hear the end of it from some of my friends who constantly tell me “if you had a facebook account you could see the pictures”. Ack!!!! Why not just email a few of them to me? Its another way of saying, that I don’t have time to email you. This is a very destructive form of “peer pressure”. I have lost Real life friends over it and have seen other relationships destroyed.
  
  The reason I deleted my account is because I just don’t have the time to be on it and I don’t wish for my information to be out there floating around.
  
  Additionally, due to some of the latest immature stunts that some former classmates have conjured up—elfing people—or putting up pictures without consent, and posting information that is exaggerated—I could not afford to have my clients or others think otherwise about me.
  
  Lastly, what people don’t understand is the huge liability that could cost you your job, credit, relationships, and privacy of personal information and posts—even deleted ones—that Facebook keeps on their server even tho you have deleted your account. No wonder some big name athletes have deleted their accounts for fear of backlash.
  
  Words can be misinterpreted no matter how diplomatic one is. Ironically, a few friends understand why. I have been up and down my son’s back for some of his past postings that were charged with hormones and immaturity… Its not that I hate facebook, but really, its how people use it. Not realizing that by adding a friend for “sake of having many friends” is also costly—Just refer to the knuckle head who posted earlier telling everyone to $uck off! We really don’t know people very well…and if I ever do get another one—which I most likely won’t—I will be very selective. To say the least, you are all right — bottom line? TOO MUCH DRAMA and liability.

  
  

• At 22 January '10 - 21:08 Red wrote:

  

  Agree 100%. Just killed my facebook account, got sick and tired of somebody sending some bullshit bunny, tree , cause or whatever. Also, just had enough of “Jenny scratched her arm” or “Chris is getting a drink of water”. Whatever. Supposedly facebook surpassed myspace in popularity, it obviously reflects the intelligence quotia of the current populus.

  
  

• At 26 January '10 - 02:35 Megan Kowal wrote:

  

  I prefer Facebook because i do not have to refresh the page to know that some one has written back to a comment i wrote about. It pops up in my notifications. I do agree with you on the apps though, It is quite annoying when an application sends me a notification, but i just spam the app and never hear from it again. Facebook is for the older crowd. There are too many MySpace profiles revolving around young girls trying to out slut each other with provocative pictures. I started a Facebook grouped called “Dislike Sexual MySpaces” in hopes that young girls will see the group and stop acting so slutty. Also i run into a lot less creepy people on Facebook than i do on MySpace. I am constantly receiving a message on MySpace from gross guys trying to tell me I’m sexy or something ridiculous like that when my display picture is something that is very appropriate. Facebook, to me, is for people who really want to keep in touch with other people they don’t see often and of course with their close friends too, but MySpace has become the new booty call.

  
  

• At 26 January '10 - 10:51 Jon wrote:

  

  I think facebook should be ashamed of the poor service they offer. For example, if you ever change your email, as I did, you will be blocked from accessing your account even with the correct password unless you can access the old email address. Since I no longer had access to an old email account, I tried to update my information only to find myself unable to log in. There is also NO customer service at all. There is no telephone number or procedure to allow users to regain compromised accounts. Facebook has essentially taken control of my personal pictures and information that I would like to protect, and I have no way of getting that access back. What is worse, there is no way to notify all the friends that may think i am ignoring them, and also I am afraid that future employers may read or see a post that could be inappropriate. I don’t even think I have to explain how terrible the apps are. They are nothing but creative ways to spam users by making them believe they are doing something. The site is always unable to load, and now there are fake news feeds going around. You get a “notification” that someone has tagged you in a photo or video, but if you click on it and it actually loads, then you get some stupid video that is supposed to be scary. I am joining linked and leaving facebook.

  
  

• At 03 February '10 - 02:35 madhuri wrote:

  

  Well, I think people now a days are eating, drinking, pissing and shitting on facebook. That’s one thing on the internet they’re super addicted to. Its giving all the psychological illness to people, i mean you get to see things u don’t wanna see, profile updates from people you truly madly deeply hate but you can’t tell them which is why you can neither delete them nor ignore the fact that their shit annoys the fuck out of you.

  
  

• At 05 February '10 - 17:33 KD wrote:

  I hate facebook for all the same reasons. I’d LOVE to delete mine, but I feel like I’ll be left out. It sucks…

  
  

• At 07 February '10 - 23:28 Robin wrote:

  

  It is SO reassuring to read here that others feel EXACTLY as I do. I spend most of my time working alone at home. Visiting facebook actually makes me feel even MORE lonely than I normally do, seeing the “trappings” of others’ (who ironically enough are my fb friends!) lives which have nothing to do with any reality of mine. Interestingly, I’ve noticed that the people I know in real life with the BIGGEST intimacy issues are very the ones with the 300, 400 or more fb “friends”, doing digitally what they do in reality: going for quantity instead of quality. There’s always some groupie or sycophant around to praise or comment on their having the sniffles or cooking dinner or buying new underwear or posting some completely ordinary photo of a shower stall taken with their Blackberry. Facebook: it’s the celebration of mediocrity. It’s beyond boring; it’s frightening to think of someone so afraid to feel anything that might arise in their skins if they were to be alone for more than 10 minutes. Oh…also the ads are intrusive, there’s no real meaningful interaction, and it makes my browser freeze up often. I’m outta there yesterday. Sorry if I got too intense. Thanx for being here!!

  
  

• At 08 February '10 - 16:48 JJ wrote:

  I avoided the hype for years and then caved for school purposes. I wish I had never signed up for it at all. When I finish my degree next year, I am putting it to rest. But I dread having everyone react to this as though I am shutting them out or going “antisocial rebel” on them. I am going back to real life, folks. You are welcome to join me there. Real life has phone and in person communication, and it’s normal for people to lose touch sometimes as they live their own lives. In real life there is no need to make yourself appear a certain way, because noone actually cares. I can’t wait.
  
  Is it all bad? No. What I like about facebook is the easy communication back and forth between members. This is great for school projects or large social gettogethers.
  
  That’s it. The rest of facebook is just …so….creepily….conforming. Everyone is to look the same, say the same sayings, think the same thoughts, feel the same feelings, enjoy the same pasttimes. The profiles all look the same. After awhile, the party pics or romance pics or kids pics all look the same too. Sometimes I can’t even distinguish whose wall I’m on at any given time. And it doesn’t feel good. I find myself comparing my life to everyone else’s, and almost convince myself that everyone is leading rich, love-filled, wondrously popular lives. Bull. Can’t wait to get back to life soon.

  
  

• At 12 February '10 - 03:00 Anum wrote:

  

  i hate facebook cause i never made facebook

  
  

• At 12 February '10 - 10:35 drowningboy wrote:

  

  try this instead:
  
  http://toofacedbook.wordpress.com/

  
  

• At 12 February '10 - 18:44 Rivera wrote:

  

  I sign onto Facebook because I do like seeing people’s pictures and the memorial page of a friend who has died. However, tonight I realized how empty I feel when I look at these pics and how this longing to connect is really only serving to make me feel disconnected when I read about people that I don’t know and will NEVER know me. I am a private person and I normally don’t follow a trend just to follow a trend. It took me forever to get a DVD player and understand why the VCR was going the way of the dinosaur. Oh, anyway, I won’t delete my account but I am weaning myself away from this dumb High School Laden Colony of people intent on billboarding inane details about their lives.
  Thanks for writing up your dislikes and helping me realize I am not the only one down on facebook.

  
  

• At 14 February '10 - 01:36 Lindsey C. wrote:

  

  I just deleted my Facebook page and I feel so good about it! I can’t stand Facebook; actually, it makes me sick that the majority of the population is obsessed with it, and are loosing REAL social skills. Hopefully this will die out like myspace.

  
  

• At 15 February '10 - 05:44 facebooksux wrote:

  

  i’m on myspace and cannot stand facebook. all these people who are sooooo against myspace who used to be on myspace 24/7. myspace has way many more options layout wise. i dislike the bulletin style that facebook has set. i really don’t want to write on people’s walls or test how smart i am against my friends’ scores or get poked or poke other people. it’s so plastic and insipid. i am happy with myspace, it’s less cluttered, and it’s more creative. down with facebook. i totally identify with the person who took forever to get a DVD player. the more people worship facebook the more i will repel it!!

  
  

• At 15 February '10 - 18:06 Eric wrote:

  One thing that i really hate about facebook is all the stupid groups. Its like people join all this personal crap and they don’t realize that all their friends see it on their feed! One group is “I like the shivering sensation when i pee”. ..... TMI. And they join groups that reveal every little emotional problem they go through, like the group “ i acted like it didnt bother me, but really, i think about it all the time.” Not to say their status updates aren’t any different. I just want to yell at them and say NO ONE CARES that you’re crying on the inside if you post it on facebook! Talk to an actual friend in real life if you have problems! They are just fishing for sympathy and pity and it makes me sick!

  
  

• At 15 February '10 - 19:58 Alex who is angry with Facebook wrote:

  

  I thought I swore I would never join a social networking site until my friend my college invited me to join FB. I thought if I didn’t like it, I could leave. I at least found friends I haven’t seen for many years and kept in touch with them. I started loving/hating FB when there are people I request as friends who don’t respond. I got mad when I suspected that they ignored me as a friend – what a bloody f******ing insult! I get mad when I am ignored. I get mad when I am removed as a friend unless that friend leaves FB – I am that sensitive. I also hated it when there were ads about IQ tests and that “John Doe thinks I’m an idiot!” Boy was I pissed. I even reported the ad to FB, but they did not do a thing. I also don’t like it when your info is given out to third parties.
  Unfortunately, one of my ex-FB friends is a nurse for my dad and blabbed my activities on FB to my dad! I was absolutely mortified. My mom was not thrilled. I immediately dropped that FB friend and went as far as blocking her. My mom asks “Are you on Facebook” with an evil tone of voice. I say,” I am in my thirties now – don’t treat me like an [expletive – not said in front of her though] child.” That contributed more to my disliking of FB.

  
  

• At 15 February '10 - 20:01 Alex who is angry with Facebook wrote:

  

  More…
  It is also depressing to see your FB friends, most of whom are not my close friends, brag about their children’s achievements, exotic vacations, and their other friends. I also feel depressed when people have more friends that I do. Whoever said FB contributes to letdown is right.
  I am at least giving up FB for Lent.

  
  

• At 17 February '10 - 17:50 anti-facebook wrote:

  

  fuck facebook is gay and for losers with no life, i’d laugh if someday facebook got hacked and all them losers started crying.

  
  

• At 17 February '10 - 18:16 Jorgie wrote:

  Fb sucia

  
  

• At 18 February '10 - 15:01 jesse wrote:

  i hate facebook too. it sux. all my frends love it and i c no reason

  
  

• At 18 February '10 - 20:16 Ginger wrote:

  

  I hate Facebook because they got me in trouble at work. No i wasn’t on my Facebook page at work. I went to the add friends section of Facebook and wanted to invite a few people to my page, I didn’t realize the “add all” button was clicked and when I pushed send it invited every contact in my email account.
  
  This included my boss who has taken issue with it, I explained the situation but I can’t really prove it as the invitation came from the Facebook page not my email do I don’t have a record of it, And I can’t find any record of it in Facebook. I feel shafted. What can I do?
  
  Not feeling Spicy
  
  Ginger

  
  

• At 07 March '10 - 12:53 Dan wrote:

  

  The number one reason why I Hate FaceBook is because I’ve got too many friends/relatives not knowing how to properly use the fucking internet. I started using internet back in 2001-02 when the non-internet people did their thing IRL and some others learned a thing or two about internet. And now all of a sudden everyone has started using internet for useless fucking crap shit like ‘send-this-message-to-a-gazillion-people-and-you-will-NOT-die-tomorrow’-messages and the endless POKE-ing. I’m also afraid of actually being forced to talk to people I do Not want to talk to, and one can simply just not ignore an other.
  Therefore I will be cheering when this FB craze Will end.
  And yeah, I got a ‘No, don’t have FaceBook’- t-shirt.

  
  

• At 09 March '10 - 17:04 Blizzard B. wrote:

  i can’t stand that friend network, it is very overated. How can it be #2 on the Alexa ranking? my friends kept telling me to join saying how great it is, and when I checked it out…it’s not even that good. I’m sick of my myspace friends saying, “get at the facebook” on their profile. Could a facebook profile be customized and say, “get at the myspace”? No.
  Worst of all – A dull layout, no HTML, no style, that’s terrible.

  
  

• At 13 March '10 - 19:09 t masta wrote:

  

  i agree with face book haters!its the wrorst site ever. people have even killed themselves becuse of that site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and who wants to look at pics of people you barly know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i could go on and on but iam tierd so iam going to go to bed

  
  

• At 14 March '10 - 20:34 lp wrote:

  

  Ugh, hate it as well.
  
  Most of the people on it now have no clue that it existed maybe 5-6 years ago. It was exclusive back then, cleaner and less populated, with intelligent people using it.
  
  Now? Half the people in there can’t even SPELL university. It’s a place full of annoying 11 year olds, and people who are too old to be there. My FATHER is on it, what a joke! This place has no standards.
  
  The annoying fad will die out, soon hopefully but it will die out.

  
  

• At 16 March '10 - 15:04 lee wrote:

  

  indeed it’s annoying to find out someone else uploaded pics of them, and me among others…it’s so frustrating because i hate the idea of this type of networking and i dont wanna be on the internet without my permission. and yes, if anyone is curious to see how i have been lately, they should just use a phone or email.

  
  

• At 17 March '10 - 08:16 Renee wrote:

  

  I HATE!! FB… so much. My friends keep pressuring me to join and make fun of me for not joining.. I was going to join but now for spite I refuse. It is like a sick FB clique in High School and I am not the popular person. My “friends” Will post pix and info about their lives and then will tell me “oh I did not tell you because you are not on FB”.. Is there anyway to get FB shutdown or make people pay so they will stop bugging me.. HOw can we as FB haters get it shut down??!!??

  
  

• At 18 March '10 - 00:48 Stu wrote:

  

  Well I just recently deleted my facebook permantly. It is fake, and found many of the people there pretentious or fake. I just sick of seeing the status updates of people there and many of it is just annoying. I found some so called friends there turn out there turn into jerks because of facebook.
  
  I over the games and shit like that there too. I only find it a networking site and thats all.

  
  

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