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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.

  
  

• At 20 March '10 - 07:22 Andy wrote:

  I’m with you. The only reason I ever use Facebook is because my friends won’t communicate any other way. 99% of the “content” is dreary, inane and deadeningly dull. I didn’t know you couln’t remove an account! I started getting posts from a conspiracy nut on YouTube (should have known better) so I deleted my account…

  
  

• At 21 March '10 - 10:13 bushra wrote:

  

  well …. I am indifferent about facebook … no hate or love thing … usually i am on facebook just to check for any messages sent by friends as they all maintain facebook and are devout facebook users… many are fans … but i give no more than 15-20 minutes per day to facebook … as long as you are controlling this machine the pc, the internet and the facebook for your use .. and facebook not eating u up or controlling.. then having an account for friends is no big deal… but when it controls u..the farmville and other application… and u r late for homework or anything… make sure u delete the account.. and have a life that is controlled by urself..

  
  

• At 22 March '10 - 14:06 Charles Ramsey Smith wrote:

  

  I use facebook and am doing a research project on why people do not use the popular social networking site. Would anyone be interested or happy to answer a few questions via email (anonymously if preferred) who do not use facebook, to help me with my project.

  
  

• At 24 March '10 - 09:08 555 wrote:

  Hey Charles I’ll answer questions why I don’t use facebook. Give me an e-mail or some where I can go to help

  
  

• At 26 March '10 - 15:41 with held wrote:

  

  I don’t like facebook anymore, I admit I did used to use it alot and it became kind of an addiction but now just the mention of facebook annoys me. Its fine if you want to stay in touch with relations that live away for e.g but the whole up dating your status every 5 mins to something stupid like ... is having roast beef tonight or my fave so far…... can’t wait to go to bed tonight so I can have a cuddle with my husband, Oh please get a life! recently my mother in law picked my son up from nursery and said she would bring him home at 7pm, his bed time is at 7 being only 3, well I waited and she was an hour late I have a 1 year old too so I was looking after him, I thought she could have phoned or at least texted me but no she sent me a message on facebook! she wasn’t even on my list after this i “deactivated” my account Im fed up of the lack of interaction people have now. Having 2 kids I feel that I shouldn’t be using facebook anyway.

  
  

• At 28 March '10 - 10:29 Erin wrote:

  

  I am SO happy to finally find a blog that expresses the same sentiment that I have been stressing to everyone around me thats been brain-washed into leaving the original Myspace for the band-wagon facebook site. You are totally right when you use the excuse that you are forced to use it simply because all of your friends use that now instead. But I refuse to fall for their crap, and I would not re-activate my account even if Myspace no longer existed, and if they paid you to join that boring, crappy site. I absolutely HATE facebook in everyway and get irritated that companies even now have their own sites on it, which Myspace was originally intended for in the first place (i.e. bands and celebs, etc). In fact, it’s sadly gotten to the point where I think I feel my blood start to boil when I hear someone utter the words face or book! I so desperately wish they would just put a virus on that site and shut it down for good already (oh, wait, I did hear people around me bitching about the viruses-ha!).
  
  I’ve made a point as to how much I will stand by Myspace and boycott facebook when I went as far as to announce my engagement on Myspace, and my friends freaked out because they were behind since they are too busy with facebook up their asses. As in the words of Adam Sandler in the movie “Funny People,” F*CK Facebook!!!!

  
  

• At 29 March '10 - 19:27 ashley wrote:

  RETARD FACEBOOK IS AMAZING YOUH STUPID DUMB_A##

  
  

• At 30 March '10 - 08:57 Fecebook wrote:

  Facebook is the Mc Donald’s of socialization. Cheap, fast, and no good for you!
  What’s up with people 40yrs old and older being obsessed with facebook? Using it to spy on your family members and causing drama like you are back in high school is a very sad look for that age group.
  People are so fake and use facebook as a way to fuel their ego with their dumb status updates and millions of pictures taken by yourself in front of a bathroom mirror. Please I wish people would get over themselves and go outside and enjoy life. Enjoy a real friendship with real human beings. Go for a walk instead of staying cooped inside waiting for your crops to grow on farmville. This is a pathetic generation.

  
  

• At 30 March '10 - 10:17 jojo wrote:

  

  hey why not start a FACEBOOK group for PEOPLE WHO HATE FACEBOOK.
  i hate it also — sometimes people post things which if said to you privately are ok but dont want it to be seen publicly…I know there are privacy filters etc but hey cant really be bothered with all that

  
  

• At 30 March '10 - 10:24 jojo wrote:

  

  STart a new FACEBOOK group -PEOPLE who HATE FB

  
  

• At 30 March '10 - 19:01 mikki wrote:

  

  Thanks everybody. My sis pulled her page down because she didn’t have time for the fakeness, gossiping, and ppl she really didn’t want to see. At first, I just culled my “friends” list where people friended me but had nothing to say, even after I sent them messages. Now, I have finally pulled mine down after getting in to a discussion where someone didn’t agree with me and started calling me out of my name. This person just ranted on and on like a rabid dog, writing the equivalent to 2-3 page essays on his distaste for me and my opinions. I realize at that point that the whole shebang was silly and that I have more fun living real life not cyber life. It’s such a relief now that my email box is not buzzing constantly with silly fb notices or rants from the mentally insane!
  
  I’m gone for good.

  
  

• At 01 April '10 - 19:26 Hans Grueber wrote:

  

  Well said. I want facebook to die.
  
  http://geekcomforts.com/2010/03/burn-fac..

  
  

• At 05 April '10 - 10:53 DanDan wrote:

  

  I really enjoyed reading this. Very entertaining. :) Although I have a Facebook, I use it mostly just for connecting with a couple of friends. I totally understand where you’re coming from. A lot of those things are true. XD

  
  

• At 06 April '10 - 07:53 Kim wrote:

  

  Thank God!! People that agree with me. Everytime I talk about this people nod and then still log on and I feel as though I’m on my own. Facebook was fine for me a year ago but I’m deactivating tonight because enough is enough.
  I understand the issues you talked about, lack of originality, the lack of privacy, but for me it is more of a social issue.
  It’s the fact I’ll have a conversation with some on FB and think, wow I’m making a connection with someone. Only to receive a tepid response the next day when you see them in person.
  It’s the fact that I don’t have a laptop handy so can’t untag photographs immediately.
  Do I really want my family seeing pictures of me half drunk?
  There are tons of issues I have with the site and FB doesn’t listen to these problems or even acknowledge them. I hate the fact there are people on my FB I despise and can’t just delete without being dragged into a confrontation.
  The worst thing is how people are so sensitive about something that shouldn’t matter.
  Any comment and certain self centred people think it’s directed at them. So you have to explain constantly. I’m beyond sick of it all.
  Looking back I can’t even understand why I put such private information up for all to read.
  Adding and deleting friends just makes people oversensitive and I’m just so tired of it.
  Of course you must have one though!
  Well I’m deleting mine and I’m off to get a real life, one that I won’t update my status about.

  
  

• At 06 April '10 - 12:42 MURRAY wrote:

  

  I deactivated my account because I found it too annoying to be subjected to a barrage of pokes, ‘join my cause’ entreaties, bad jokes, fake beers, pies, etc. Besides it became very tiresome when ‘friends’ don’t reciprocate when one takes the time to write them. Apparently these same friends have plenty of time to show everyone what they’re up to several times a day. I prefer in-person social contact first and when not possible I’d rather talk over the phone with email as the last option. Facebook should be renamed Fakebook as it feels as fake as a high school reunion. Oh..and I’ll stick with my few quality friends than 7000 acquaintances any day!

  
  

• At 08 April '10 - 13:54 charles wrote:

  

  if you hate facebook and want to tell me why for a research methods project my email is chasyboi@hotmail.co.uk
  
  thanks, much appreciated!

  
  

• At 09 April '10 - 07:55 brondom wrote:

  

  5 reasons why i dont give a shit.
  
  1. because, you suck
  2. because your a winger
  3. you smell bad
  4.nobody fucing cares what you think about facebook
  5.eats babys

  
  

• At 10 April '10 - 20:19 mikal knip wrote:

  there is a way to delete your facebook… i did it. there is a two week grace period when it still exists, if you sign in then the deletion process fails. I forget exactly how to do it… but just type “how to permanently delete my facebook” into google.

  
  

• At 13 April '10 - 04:03 LikewhateverrrrFacebook wrote:

  

  I haven’t used it for many months now and it still annoys me to think of this particular girl leaving about 20 status updates a day most of which are self centered and/or pointless. I don’t know if they just want attention or they even realise they are doing it anymore.
  
  I think it has got to that point.

  
  

• At 17 April '10 - 18:16 Chip wrote:

  

  I have a facebook, yet I still hate facebook. Who is actually friends with all the people on theirs? I’d like to know who is.

  
  

• At 17 April '10 - 19:26 Rebecca wrote:

  

  I also hate Facebook. It IS ridiculous. I actually run my organizations social networking pages and I enjoy that b/c I feel like I am really helping the fans who our interested in the services we offer. However, I hate it for personal purposes. After my year long encounter with Myspace some years ago, I told myself that I wouldn’t go down that road again. It was such an awkward place to be really.
  
  Then recently I began to feel disconnected from my friends and I bought a Blackberry at the same time. So, I thought why not? What was I thinking! I should have re-visited this blog before I signed up.
  
  I don’t think that I’m going to be active on it anymore. I’m done. I mean if someone wants to communicate via message or what have you, that’s fine. But – I don’t have time for that BS!
  
  I get so annoyed with my newsfeed. All of the people that I had some respect for are acting like they’re back in high school! Even my three closest friends are extremely annoying. Well, one of them isn’t so bad…
  
  Then there are all these people that I see who have children and are supposed to be adults. I mean c’mon most of us have real jobs, houses to maintain, children and real life friends to manage. Do we really have time for sitting on our asses in bars drinking, smoking and bragging about how much FUN that was. Sooo sad! I mean that gets boring so quick.

  
  

• At 20 April '10 - 13:16 Jashkar wrote:

  

  I hate Facebook…
  
  ...because everyone seems to be on it.
  
  ...because everyone seems to be speaking of it.
  
  ...because it stands to “communication” and “dialogue” like “I love the Big Brother” and a gunshot in the head would stand to “love”.
  
  Regards,
  Jashkar

  
  

• At 22 April '10 - 19:43 Deborah Pietruska Nathan wrote:

  

  I don’t have a URL. Just wanted to post a comment:
  
  I signed up for Facebook about 2 years ago. Then never used it. Recently started using it at the insistance of a relative. So I used it and that relative is no longer speaking to me any more. Already there is a rift that involved Facebook. And the relative is partially to blame obviously. So my plan is to use if for a month and then cancel. So far, it’s just really boring. We live in a celebratized society and so now everyone now thinks that every bit of minutia about their lives is interesting. NOT SO! Not on Facebook and not face to face. Figure it out people.

  
  

• At 24 April '10 - 00:34 Jack wrote:

  

  You could only think of 5 reasons?

  
  

• At 26 April '10 - 13:39 nek wrote:

  

  facebook is full of fakeness, i have friends who are photogenic in pictures but bloody hell ugly in personal …yuck i gotta vomit !

  
  

• At 27 April '10 - 09:53 ThatDeborahGirl wrote:

  

  I like Facebook for keeping old friends up to date on the kind of social chatter stuff you want to know. Did so

  
  

• At 28 April '10 - 01:19 Alison Kreft wrote:

  I just publically said on facebook why i hated it. and it caused an outrage among my ‘friends’. so i deleted it. fuck it! its so lame. dehuumanizing communication if i ever knew it.

  
  

• At 29 April '10 - 20:47 no name wrote:

  I hate facebook too!!!! They make me in trouble and no school for 2 days because my F****** trouble!!!! I HATE FACEBOOK!!! :)

  
  

• At 30 April '10 - 04:37 Heru Himawan Tejo Laksono wrote:

  

  I also hate Facebook, hi look, Facebook doing anti-social by let the fictive accounts. I got “fictive Richard Stallman”, “fictive President of Republic Indonesia”, and more.
  
  I also get that some peoples doing discrimination to his/her friends by rejecting some peoples to give comments and I seen many-many bullshits.
  
  I also found the fake religious councilors and fake religion leaders trick out the religion followers, and more-more of any anti-social activities within the Facebook. That’s why I have left Facebook and will not log in to my account anymore!
  
  Facebook also exhaust the internet bit usage, by load some “infinitive-loop” within JavaScript behind the pages.
  
  I am socialist follower, I am programmer of free software, so I will never agree if free program like PHP just being used by Facebook in which let anti-social actions within.

  
  

• At 30 April '10 - 16:34 Hala Khanji wrote:

  

  I agree with you dude. Facebook ruined peoples’ lives! And I’m prooud to say I don’t have a Facebook or a MySpace :)

  
  

• At 01 May '10 - 08:25 andrew wrote:

  

  some good valid comments there… i am on facebook but dont like it… its strange really because i only joined because people asked me to, i joined, went on it once then never went back… i hated the fact people had so many friends, i’ve got about 150 and its just pathetic, a few i dont know and about half i dont care about, in reality if i had 150 friends my phone would be non-stop, no one calls me… where’s my 150 friends??? anyway, one day i got bored so went back on it and got a little addicted to it, used to spend a few hours a night on it… after a few months i realised how artificial it really is… its only there to make people look good, people leave statuses which are competely irrelevant, no one has that many friends, to make matters worse you cant approve a comment on your wall, its just posted… i fell out with a few friends about comments and statuses when in real life that never would have happened…
  
  everyone just seems to be more sensitive on it, a comment can be taken the wrong way… its only there for people to tell you about the life they wished they lived and the friends they wished they had

  
  

• At 03 May '10 - 06:35 Nadine Soja wrote:

  

  WOW-and I felt like its just me hating this stalking machine! What a freaking time waster. Burn facebook, BURN!
  
  Instead of getting people together it actually bring them apart. Everyone wanna have it so easy and fast, writing stupid comments and wall posts. How about asking your real friends whats going on in their lives for a change? We all have an email account-it’s all there! Years ago even an email used to be unpersonal but now its as personal as we can get!
  How social is that,everyone is sitting infront of a computer writing on each others wall. It makes me wanna scream.
  
  Not to mention this permanent status updates. It seems like we can’t even enjoy nice things as we are busy taking pictures only to show it on facebook. This one girl showed her whole birth. Other friend her whole wedding day. It drove me insane-I am out of it FOREVER!
  
  And last but not least don’t let this succer of Zuckerberg get more powerful and richer.
  
  F** the digital world-I am going analouge!!

  
  

• At 03 May '10 - 18:37 Nirmal Singh wrote:

  

  i hate facebook and all the other social network sites because of the fucking attention whores – the i have to take 50 billion picsa of myself half naked with my camera losers. the western whores who flirt with eastern guys or pretend to be indian or whatever, etc. fucking douchebags. i miss the pre social network interweb. the only trhing i like r apps. fuck the rest just give me the stupid apps. if i gotta waste my time, id rather waste it with that then give some shitwad more attention.

  
  

• At 06 May '10 - 20:54 Larkin wrote:

  

  I want to “friend” you, Fecebook (the commenter of 3/30/10)! I’ve been laughing over your moniker for the last 20 minutes…...thank you!
  
  The narcissism of the FB minions has driven me to delete my account that I’ve used sporadically for a year. When I started noticing how shallow my 3 best friends were becoming (maybe always have been?), I showed them the recent “South Park” episode eviscerating FB. Now I’m 1 best friend less.
  
  What really finished me was being asked to join “I bet Johnson High School will get 5,000 fans before Stanton High School does!” We all graduated from Johnson in 1974. These people need help.

  
  

• At 08 May '10 - 12:08 Anoniem wrote:

  Gast, je hebt helemaal gelijk. Ik had mezelf op een gegeven moment aangemeld voor Facebook, maar het is ook zo’n doolhof! En ik dacht eerst dat de functies waarmee je je layout kunt customizen ergens zaten verstopt, maar ze blijken er dus gewoon niet te zijn! Slecht. Heel slecht.
  
  Ik ben daarentegen een trots MySpace-gebruiker en vind het dan ook vreemd dat deze site van de eerste plek is verstoten. De duidelijkheid en persoonlijke ruimte die deze site biedt vind ik persoonlijk veel prettiger dan het kale en (in mijn ogen) onduidelijke Facebook.
  
  En ik heb bij MySpace nog nooit last gehad van spam.
  
  (To foreign readers: I basically said that I totally agree with this blogger’s arguments on not liking Facebook.)

  
  

• At 08 May '10 - 12:41 Jules wrote:

  As a writer on another site said, “Social media make your distant relationships closer and your close relationships more distant.”
  
  I deleted my FB account because I found out too much, way too much, about someone I thought was my most trusted friend. She was telling at least 5 of us the same comments about how we were “the only person I can be myself with, the only person I consider a genuine friend, the only friend I would consider family.” I don’t care about the so-called competition (we’re not kids), but I am disgusted by the blatant lying and manipulation of feelings.
  
  Apparently, friendships are bought in wholesale lots on FB.

  
  

• At 09 May '10 - 00:51 FB Hater wrote:

  Woot, an Anti-Facebook blog/post.
  
  Facebook is the devil. :)
  
  Though as some people commented, there are FAR more reasons that just five why it sucks, and should go away. I’m pretty sure you could write a decent thesis paper about how much it sucks.

  
  

• At 11 May '10 - 10:44 Josh wrote:

  

  I’ve been on Facebook for 1 year exactly now and so far I’ve had a love/hate relationship with it.
  
  At first I was weary about signing up, but after my sister wanted me to get an account, I finally gave in. Apart from my sis, guess who was the second person to add me on FB?? My middle school ex-girlfriend, who made sure I saw pics of her with her rich husband and kids and found out how she’s living like a queen.
  
  After my gf and I broke up a few months later (ironically enough, because I caught her cheating on another social networking site), I spent a whole lot of time on FB getting in touch with old friends and family…including some relatives I’ve never met. For that I am grateful to FB. However, one of those long-lost relatives mysteriously unfriended me this morning after I posted a comment (one of several they never replied to) on one of their status updates! Needless to say, they’re off my Christmas card list…..
  
  IMO, FB has its good qualities and bad qualities. All of the bad qualities have been covered in all the other comments here. As for the good, FB does have strict policies on explicit materials, so your chances of finding any nude pics of your brother or Aunt Jo are extremely minimal. Also, it’s more personal than other websites and as long as a person is using their genuine display pic and name, it’s hard for them to post hateful comments on your wall and get away with it.
  
  For me, I will continue using FB, but if I had my way, I would find a more personal way to stay in touch with friends and family…like e-mail, telephone, face-to-face conversation, etc. I’m starting to get tired of social networking…esp. after my break-up.
  
  Oh and a couple of tips for making your FB experience a little more tolerable:
  *If you want to make your status updates private, such as between just yourself and a couple of friends, just click the lock in the status update form and change the permissions to “Only me and ‘type friend’s name here.’” Type in what friends you want to see this update and it will be hidden to everyone except them.
  
  *You can also hide annoying or hateful people on your friend list by arrowing over to the right side of the white boxes in the home page. When the “Hide” box comes up, just click it and specify “Hide all updates and comments from this person.” Everything they post will be hidden.

  
  

• At 18 May '10 - 11:36 Shawn K. wrote:

  

  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Clean-Up-F..

  
  

• At 20 May '10 - 03:47 insha hussain wrote:

  

  i HATE FACE BOOK !!!!!!
  .
  .
  uu ENGLISH PPL !finally u av expose ur devilish thinking abt ISLAM

  
  

• At 23 May '10 - 15:45 Heather wrote:

  

  Wooohooo – finally, a bunch of people that agree with me!
  
  I’m 17 and hate the bloody thing. All my friends have it and I don’t. sometimes I feel like a right outcast, but I’m sorry I don’t want randoms to know the story of my life (and I don’t want to look at prats from high school’s profiles either thank you)
  
  I think its sooo sad that people can’t get off their arse and actually meet their real friends face to face for a coffee or something. Its damaging to society.
  
  Thank you for writing this – its really refreshing to hear!

  
  

• At 26 May '10 - 14:13 Nasir Tahiri wrote:

  

  I hate Facebook too. It’s totally a waste of time. I never wanted to create an account in it, but because of my relatives. I did that mistake, I made an accountant uploaded my photos added my friends, used for a few months and all of a sudden, my account got disabled by Facebook, saying that I have violated their Terms. that I had chosen a nick name instead of my real name, now they are asking me for my ID and they promise that once it’s confirmed they will delete it from their damn servers.
  I was so naive to have created an account in Facebook. It’s always better to stay away from strangers. never give away your personal information to every Tom Dick or Harry.
  In Facebook you don’t have any privacy at all.
  I request every rational men and women to stop using such sites for your own safety.

  
  

• At 27 May '10 - 08:17 1 Mny-H8tin-FB wrote:

  

  Bravo!!! You are NOT the only one who absolutely HATES FB…My husband

  
  

• At 29 May '10 - 03:16 johnny wrote:

  

  I think Van’s brain has been damaged from all the cocks rammed up his ass. Your just another mindless facebook addict!!

  
  

• At 30 May '10 - 10:28 pete wrote:

  

  ??? am I missing something ???
  
  People don’t like – even hate facebook – WHY?
  
  Why do people hate the tools and not the ones who use the tools? Who asks then to use the tools and who makes a decision to use the tools?
  
  Like someone said, “stupid is only as stupid as stupid does!”

  
  

• At 31 May '10 - 06:21 Brian wrote:

  

  WHAT RELIEF... to find so many people hating Facebook.
  
  The whole idea horrifies me (I’m not a member) but from my observations of those who are, it seems most ‘activity’ is spent in self-congratulation.
  
  You get the impression no-one is actually really listening to anyone else, they’re already thinking what their next ‘statement-to-the-world’ will be.

  
  

• At 31 May '10 - 09:21 Lektira wrote:

  

  i really really hate facebook, its anonying and im tired of it. Only good side of it that much users use that crap, but I expect one new better website on net, better then that crappy fb..

  
  

• At 02 June '10 - 09:23 Marcus C. wrote:

  

  Have you seen these new “social apps”? They fucking drive me crazy I can’t post any comments on any website that allows it!!!!! Facebook needs to learn to stay on there on own site and let us facebook haters get on with our life!!!! email me if you agree or disagree and why.
  
  Silent0shock@gmail.com sending anything irrelevant will lead to insta-delete and if continuous will lead to hacking and crash you email.

  
  

• At 06 June '10 - 16:43 Heather wrote:

  

  Unfortunately I had to get the bloody awful thing to get pics of my school prom. I still stand by what I said earlier though! It is PATHETIC! you should read the emails they send you: “so-n-so wants to be friends” “you are now friends with so-n-so” I mean, come on! And all the high school prats who have never really spoken to me are adding me as if I was appreciated…shame they never show it in real life eh??
  
  As someone earlier said, phone me, email me or feck off!
  
  (sorry about my ranting – I just think that society is a really sad place because we rely so heavily on this shite)

  
  

• At 08 June '10 - 10:29 We're not made of metal for a reason wrote:

  

  Facebook has two kinds of users:
  
  1) Those who are too lazy to actually get in touch with their friends, family, and acquaintances through phone calls, emails, and (heaven forbid) hand-written letters and use facebook to passively and coldly “keep in touch” with the least bit of effort while feeling plugged in to “the social world”. In a nutshell, being social without being social.
  
  2) Those who feel the need to advertise their (almost always very boring and mundane) private lives by constantly udpating when nothing worth reading about has happened, by bragging, by attention-seeking status updates, by compulsively commenting on others’ walls/status’/photos, and by adding as many people as possible to remind as many people as possible that they’re alive and “doing stuff”.
  
  Ironically, if those in the second category had a life worth sharing, they’d be doing just that—sharing it, but in the real world with real people and real friends. Those in the first category are easier to forgive as they tend to annoy us less, but they’re ironic as well—they want to feel connected yet are too lazy to do so, so they avoid real connection by watching other people’s “lives” and ultimately never connect with anyone.
  
  Facebook is for stalkers/snoopers/braggers/gossipers, and what all of them have in common is loneliness and laziness, a need to connect and to belong yet by making the least effort necessary. There is nothing unique about facebook and its users, yet there is nothing identical to our own voices, our individual handwriting, our personal style of writing. And there is nothing more sincere than making the effort to connect with one person at a time. We’re not made out of metal for a reason.
  
  —Former facebook user

  
  

• At 10 June '10 - 18:06 Bella wrote:

  

  Can’t stand Facebook drama.I’ve got one but never felt really comfortable with it. That’s why I miss the days BEFORE the internet existed. Back in the 80’s you were’nt all stressed out about stuff like this,and back then you could actually have friends by going out.You did’nt need some electronic list to tell you who your family and friends are.

  
  

• At 13 June '10 - 19:33 bob wrote:

  

  man i hate facebook, my sister is CONSTANTLY on it. chatting, chatting, chatting…. adding friends… whatever…. i really dont care about it, and have no use for it. the games are stupid, the apps are stupid and everything else is BORING

  
  

• At 21 June '10 - 23:00 da'man wrote:

  Agree 100%!
  I HATE FACEBOOK.
  
  Google “I hate Facebook” – it gives you 111 million results!
  
  (thats how i found your blog haha)
  
  Everything on facebook is freaking annoying and complicated and I fear this is done on purpose. Just like you said – to sneak around the privacy settings and default them back to “share with everyone”.
  
  Mark Zuckerberg admitted it way back – he thinks his users are “dumb fucks” that they trust him with their data and recently he admitted that if he had to start facebook again everything would be shared with the world by default – no privacy at all.
  
  The 6th reason why I hate facebook – because it was created by an asshole.

  
  

• At 22 June '10 - 21:19 The Founder wrote:

  

  I hate facebook LOATHE IT! it’s so fake! 1) they disabled mya acct for no reason at all 2) I think the founder of facebook is a psycho! just google the guy and his illegal activities 3) SO TO MOCK FUCKING FACEBOOK i created my website [posted above] where people’s information wont be sold unlike the “GOD” of all social network facebook a.k.a FAKEBOOK 4) lastly they have so many rules I mean so what’s the point of social networking if one is not allowed to socialize anyway? DEATH TO FAKEBOOK aka FACEBOOK

  
  

• At 23 June '10 - 09:07 Janice wrote:

  

  FINALLY!! someone that feels the same way I do about this crap called Facebook, or as I call it crack-book. When this first started 4 years ago I thought it was cool so I invited a few friends and some family members. They didn’t want anything to do wih it and now that it is to popular I want NOTHING to do with it. I pull the plug on it 2 1/2 years ago and haven’t looked back since. Now those hypocritical family members want me on it. They live in the same fucking city I do, never have the time to come over but want to add me!!? WTF!! FB may work for som folks and that’s fine but just b/c everyone is on it doesn’t mean I have to be part of it too.

  
  

• At 25 June '10 - 10:27 Sue wrote:

  

  Actually there are two ways to get rid of a facebook account if needed.
  
  You can deactivate it: it will still be available whenever you sign back in.
  
  You can permenatly delete it: Log onto your account and go to https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

  
  

• At 25 June '10 - 18:17 Alky wrote:

  

  first off…dont like it then dont use it, giving in to peer pressure and saying “all my friends are on it” as an excuse is a waste of breath!
  
  secondly you dont have to add people…just block them if they look for you!
  
  and finally why waste your time even talking to people at all if you are just gonna be a wingey git all the time…have fun with your life…have you never heard of going out anf having a laugh with friends!!!

  
  

• At 27 June '10 - 22:29 eunhae wrote:

  

  I love FB
  i wish i know more about the site sooner
  im sad i just made a/c now in 2010 (im 18)
  i wish i made one yrs ago back in 2007
  
  MY REASONS
  1)i found my elementary frinds who are going to nice state colleges after summer : ) ,like ommg its soo easy to find ppl!!!
  and when you do fb on yr mobile, fb gives you the option of calling them even though you dont know theri#
  
  2)Ive had a myspace since i was 14~ cuz every1 be talkin abt it nway
  i like decorating my page and etc.but sad prt is i couldnt really find ppl i knew on myspace even if i typed my friend FULL name so myspace s*cks so much for that.
  And fb already has a thing where you can cutomize yr profile page.
  
  3)you can easily load and put videos on fb.I seen a lot vids frm my frinds from school put stuff like throwing stuff at the teacher on it hahaha,you have to create a youtube or myspacevideo thing to put one if u dont use fb. : /
  
  those ppl above talking about phones and stuff what if your phones got stolen/broken you would lose all your friends #‘s.so how would you still keep contact then?(unless you write on paper).With fb you can easily ask them for it agn if you lost the contacts. And for that girl talking abt seeing her pic on google that wouldnt happen if u didnt upload yr pic on internet in 1st place!
  
  The author i respect yr opinion anyway what is ‘‘IU’‘ or ‘apps’ about??? I only thing i know abt app is the games or pages~

  
  

• At 28 June '10 - 22:23 brian wrote:

  

  Damn, so many comments have hit the nail on the head. I hate facebook more than anything else in my life right now. It is one of the few things that always starts shit between my wife and I. Always the same. “It’s just facebook” or “he’s harmless” It’s not just facebook. It’s just fucking bullshit. My skin crawls and I want to break stuff every time I see her on it. And honestly she doesn’t even flirt or anything like that anymore when she’s on there. But somehow it wildly pisses me off to think that she cares at all if susy lynn is eating a turkey sandwich, or betty sue is tired. Maybe you wouldn’t be so tired betty if you didn’t feel the need to tell everyone that you are. I think it is pretty pathetic that people really think other people care what they are doing. My wife even admits that she would hide from 90 percent of her so called friends if she saw them at the store. I just hope my customers dont stop using me because i refuse to use it. I have a phone and it actually works, so if susy lynn wants to call me and tell me she is eating a turkey sandwich, then she can hear my voice tell her she is fat, otherwise i’d have to pm it to someone until eventually it “accidentally” gets back to her. Great rant!!!!! I’m really glad to see there still are some normal people out there.

  
  

• At 04 July '10 - 01:01 T.D. wrote:

  

  I have a Facebook, but lately I’ve been having doubts about it and I’m starting to hate it to the point where I MAY actually delete it.
  
  Here are some of the reasons why I currently hate FB:
  
  1. Your so-called “friends” really don’t talk to you on your FB. I can say that only like 20-30 of my 500 friends really talk to me on FB and in person and/or comment on my statuses, pics, etc. and the others do not. Kind of makes me wonder if they give a damn about me…
  
  2. The deletion process. Some delete you and you never know why they did it because they do not have the balls to tell you in person!
  
  3. Favortism. It’s clear for me to see which of my friends favor one another by the constant times they talk to each other and how they never talk to me.
  
  4. Fakeness. Seriously, the status updates are so ridiculous! Who cares if your baking a cake or hanging out with Molly and Jake or taking a crap I DON’T CARE! And it’s sad that people would like things like that and/or comment.
  
  Those are some reasons, but I can’t of anymore right now.

  
  

• At 09 July '10 - 11:00 mimi wrote:

  

  thank you so much for posting this. Iam a 14 year old who never liked facebook.Especially after i saw this video of a women who was killed because of it , and the young boy who was lured and killed.Imiss the days when people who wanted to socalize had to call each other. Imean imagine being de-friended on facebook lolz.

  
  

• At 12 July '10 - 14:55 whatthedeuce` wrote:

  

  Facebook is the end of privacy as we know it.

  
  

• At 15 July '10 - 18:28 fb hateness wrote:

  

  I so hate facebook full of hypocrit users commenting on their own photos praising their looks. The shout outs are so annoying. Why most of the users post evry activity. Bla bla.. Why not post “Im pooping”. duh!

  
  

• At 15 July '10 - 20:30 Bobette Bryan wrote:

  

  You made a a lot of good points. I hate Facebook too for many reasons, (yes, including the annoying apps).
  
  1. I think it has significantly hurt content sites. Every one is hanging out on Facebook instead of checking out other websites.
  
  2. It’s boring. I don’t see what people find so fascinating about it. It’s composed of conversations that mainly amount to “small talk.” And it’s not a good way to stay in touch with family and friends. I’d rather send an email, call, or visit.
  
  3. It creates a lack of personal privacy. I joined mainly to promote my creative work and because friends pressured me to join. But I quickly learned that I couldn’t express myself freely there as I kind of feel like I’m standing naked onstage with everyone knowing what I’m doing, thinking, and feeling. Like someone else said above, “It’s like having your boss and you® parents listening into every conversation you have.”
  
  I wish people would get off of Facebook (and other social networking sites) and explore the rest of the internet again so it can come back to life as it seems kind of dead anymore. But I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon. And when Facebook does finally go down, something even more annoying and invasive will probably replace it. I suspect it will be along the gadget line.

  
  

• At 16 July '10 - 13:17 Margaret wrote:

  

  A bunch of my friends have facebooks. They are basically addicted. I watched to of my friends end their friendship over a stupid facebook status. And they wonder why I don’t want a facebook. I think it is depressing, you would really rather spend your time building online “friendships” with people who- let’s face it- you hardly know? I just think that it is stupid.

  
  

• At 17 July '10 - 15:07 Kasia Niedziela wrote:

  

  To “we are not made of metal for some reasons”- I could not agree more! I love your detailed description of the two type of users. I wish more people would think like that. Wake up people, who needs technical support to be reminded of keeping in touch with your friends, who needs approval of others through the internet!!
  As long as I read other feels the same I am good!

  
  

• At 18 July '10 - 18:41 Jon Borichev wrote:

  

  I agree wit a lot of people here. I’m getting tired of all the stupid chain comments and spam. When I started using Facebook, it was much cleaner than it is today. I might just delete my account.
  
  Sorry, I meant removing ALL my content that “deactivating” my account.

  
  

• At 23 July '10 - 12:46 Alex wrote:

  

  Hi. I think the only good thing about facebook is that you can get in contact with people you havent seen or heard of in a long time, for example, primary school friends. :)
  
  But it really annoys me because it always has glitches and everyone posts crap about themselves all over it. And my mum has become OBSESSED with the application called ‘farmville’ which completely takes over her life! Facebook can be useful, but it really does get on my nerves sometimes, and makes me wonder why i have it. :P

  
  

• At 25 July '10 - 08:09 Anonymous wrote:

  

  I think the internet is destroying people. It used to be for researching information, now it is a tool for people to interact socially! I think Facebook and text messaging have skewered what communication really is. I had a profile for about 6 months and deleted it once they made it to where you couldn’t be visible to only your friends. But really, the final straw came when someone attacked me on their page. I couldn’t believe it…why not talk to me instead of that? Loser. The narcissism of our generation is disturbing and sad, it will only get worse as times goes on. I’ve taken text messaging off my phone deleted every profile that allows for virtual interaction. I like what someone said earlier: call me, talk to me in person, or f*** off.

  
  

• At 04 August '10 - 07:52 Alex Osea wrote:

  

  I couldn’t agree with you more!
  Facebook is the most boring stupidest waste of time ever created
  i really can’t stand the fact that everyone switched from myspace for no good reason at all. esp for people in my age group. i’m 17 and a senior in highschool so profile expression is a big thing for me. myspace has layouts, music, pictures and is just much more inviting and fresh. i could see why adults might want Facebook more to connect with old classmates. but i honestly just don’t get why all of the kids hopped on it too. all i’m saying is myspace has everything Facebook has minus the bad and more good.

  
  

• At 04 August '10 - 15:27 Nety wrote:

  

  I think you have opened Pandora’s box, how many comments your article has generated up to now! I also dislike FB, mainly because no matter how careful you are with your privacy settings, there always seems to be a way for people to get into your virtual stuff. And also, I agree with you, there are lot of users that join to FB just because is a mean to keep in touch, but we have to use our common sense and be really thoughtful before uploading pictures and placing any other personal belongings there..FB is an open book, for good or bad.

  
  

• At 06 August '10 - 11:53 Sophie wrote:

  

  I am a teenager myself, and I just find now that facebook and some other social networking sites really get on my nerves. It seems now that my facebook is full of people ‘liking’ pointless groups, which I really don’t see the fun in. The only reason I do use facebook now is for photos which I think is one of its only redeeming factors.
  
  I agree with the points you make here, without being able to customize everything is dull. Being able to customize reflects a personality and it makes it much more fun and it makes things more interesting to look at.
  
  I have always been a fan of doing things the traditional way, like writing or letter. Although sadly this art seems to have died out, so for now I will settle for writing emails. It is a bit more personal and you know that if someone really is your friend they will bother to do it, or bother to phone you.
  
  Of course though, I’d still rather see a person face to face.

  
  

• At 12 August '10 - 18:55 blake young wrote:

  

  omg facebook disabled my account for not doing some highschool thing and i didnt even see a notification for the highschool thing grrrrrr i hate facebook!!!!

  
  

• At 13 August '10 - 15:51 Lisa wrote:

  

  I hate it too! it is useless and a waste of time!! no offense to facebook users

  
  

• At 13 August '10 - 23:33 facebook is fake wrote:

  I do not have a faKebook and I hate when people send me emails asking me to join faKebook in order to be friends.
  Seriously wtf? As a smart guy said, “Phone me, Email me, or fuck off”.

  
  

• At 15 August '10 - 00:03 Miss Understood wrote:

  

  It’s not that I don’t like facebook or any other social networking sites for that matter,it’s the “fakes” who add you and never says shit to you.They just add you to get there damn friend’s list up…Rather you know these fake ass people in real life, or not…rather there friends of friends of the people that’s on your friend’s list, or total randoms. Now what I hate about facebook are the everyday or every month upgrade changes….and people’s annoying ass status messeges…people on there claim to be so fucking happy in there marriages and being a mother….and so on yeah right,if you was so happy in your so-called “good life marriages”, you wouldn’t be on fb every second, mintue, and hour…saying how good of a marriage you have and you love your life and job or jobs…yeah fucking right you do….if they are so happy with there married/relationship motherhood fatherhood lifes,then they should be enjoying there family…and not being on facebook announcing how happy you really are,get your ass off the pc and enjoy or hubby/wife and kids!!! I like the games on fb and surveys fan group pages, that’s about it….no one really says shit to me on there….I use it for entertainment share music from youtube post artwork I like or pics of myself…i’m a very creative person…and most of the people on my page are same lames,no one on there is creative or unique…I don’t hate nobody that’s on my page…cause some I know or know of are nice,I just hate being ignored on there and other social networks. No one really likes or comments my status I have like 20 something peeps on my page….and everyone one my page has up to 40 or more,like in the 100’s and 1,000’s…I don’t plan on adding more people either for what so they can ignore me as well as the ones that’s already on my page do, no thank you.

  
  

• At 15 August '10 - 20:41 Wefeelthepressure wrote:

  Yes we all join it because we FEEL the social pressure to be on it..I feel pressured when an acquaintance from the past send me a request.
  
  i take it with a grain on salt .. It’s funny how you talk to someone over facebook … He send you a friend invite and 2 day later you’re flooded with friend invite LOL.

  
  

• At 17 August '10 - 08:56 Kempel wrote:

  

  I actually hate it with a passion, I registered to see what it’s about, I hate the fact I can’t delete my profile. I am going to wipe everything off of it now. Totally useless.

  
  

• At 19 August '10 - 03:53 Amy wrote:

  

  It is great to see how many people hate FB as much as I do. I deleted my account because it made me sick to see how friends, who I was once close to, COMPLETELY changed and became shallow, narcissistic, braggers on FB. I think FB has become a shrine to people’s egos and I am still so amazed that so many fall for this! I believe it brings out the absolute worst in many and for that I have ended friendships. I’d cringe when I’d I see some of my friend’s updates and think, “ how in the hell am I friends with this person?” I hope this is a trend that eventually ends. Until I read the above comments, I thought I was the only one!

  
  

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