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Reasons To Dislike Facebook
Oct. 26th, 2009 02:32 pmI fancy a whine. Twitter only lets you whine for 140 characters so that's no bloody good. Here you have more space to create a coherent and layered argument with precision and proof.
I've been on Facebook for a couple of years now after consistent badgering from my mates to create my own profile. At first it was a delight, easy to use, full of my nice jovial friends and pretty fun. But now those halcyon days are very much over and here is why.
1) Facebook's ever changing layout and movement
You leave your computer after a fun evening of facebook 'poking', wall scribbling and post commenting and prepare yourself for more of the same tomorrow. While you're asleep facebook deviously shape-shifts meaning that when you arrive back the next day you find to your horror that your photos have been moved, the news feeds have split, the links aren't where they should be and the applications are all over the shop. You're confused. You flick your cursor around the page trying to find where your friend's links should be only to find a blank white space or some pointless graphic telling you your mates are now fans of cheese rolls and hugging after sex.
Why can't they just find a layout that works and stick to it instead of wheeling out pointless and confusing changes all the time? *fumes*
2) Awful photos
To be fair this probably isn't facebook's fault. I shouldn't go out of my way to look as stupid as possible on photographs but i can't help it most of the time. Gurning and throwing random shapes into photographs is my forté. I don't do cheery smiles and pouty myspace-esque poses. But I wish facebook didn't make it so easy for people to embarrass you beyond belief by tagging frightening photos of you eating gloopy cake, gurning and dancing in weird angles.
I give you Exhibit A: Taken after I had a few two many drinks at a friend's birthday
Why??? Why??? I'm an idiot for letting this happen but facebook is a conspirator by making it public. (Although that is what I am doing now so i have kind of made my own point null and void. Bollocks)
3) Fan Pages (some of them)
I am all for fan pages. I am on some myself. For example, I am on Dick van Dyke's, House, Newcastle United and Chocolate. But some are just silly and give away far too much information on that particular person. A friend of mine (I say friend, I mean just someone i went to school with), who i will not name, became a fan of 'Teabagging' (look it up if you don't know what it is if you have the stomach for it) which i can assure you is not pleasant. Now I don't really want to know this type of info about a facebook friend's sexual escapades but it seems fine to them to tell everyone about their love of 'teabagging'.
Same goes for stupid ones like Roger Moore's Right Eyebrow or Dan Aykroyd's Bald Spot. You can't be fans of bald spots surely.
4) People who you didn't like from school, and who you are pretty sure you weren't friends with, adding you
I am sure we can all relate to this one. Though, because I am too polite for my own good, I still accept their friend request. Why do i do this? It's because I don't want to seem rude and ill-mannered. I have daft thoughts that they will verbally abuse me from a great height if i don't accept them.
How pathetic is that....
Facebook needs to buck its ideas up before I convert to Twitter for good.
I've been on Facebook for a couple of years now after consistent badgering from my mates to create my own profile. At first it was a delight, easy to use, full of my nice jovial friends and pretty fun. But now those halcyon days are very much over and here is why.
1) Facebook's ever changing layout and movement
You leave your computer after a fun evening of facebook 'poking', wall scribbling and post commenting and prepare yourself for more of the same tomorrow. While you're asleep facebook deviously shape-shifts meaning that when you arrive back the next day you find to your horror that your photos have been moved, the news feeds have split, the links aren't where they should be and the applications are all over the shop. You're confused. You flick your cursor around the page trying to find where your friend's links should be only to find a blank white space or some pointless graphic telling you your mates are now fans of cheese rolls and hugging after sex.
Why can't they just find a layout that works and stick to it instead of wheeling out pointless and confusing changes all the time? *fumes*
2) Awful photos
To be fair this probably isn't facebook's fault. I shouldn't go out of my way to look as stupid as possible on photographs but i can't help it most of the time. Gurning and throwing random shapes into photographs is my forté. I don't do cheery smiles and pouty myspace-esque poses. But I wish facebook didn't make it so easy for people to embarrass you beyond belief by tagging frightening photos of you eating gloopy cake, gurning and dancing in weird angles.
I give you Exhibit A: Taken after I had a few two many drinks at a friend's birthday
Why??? Why??? I'm an idiot for letting this happen but facebook is a conspirator by making it public. (Although that is what I am doing now so i have kind of made my own point null and void. Bollocks)
3) Fan Pages (some of them)
I am all for fan pages. I am on some myself. For example, I am on Dick van Dyke's, House, Newcastle United and Chocolate. But some are just silly and give away far too much information on that particular person. A friend of mine (I say friend, I mean just someone i went to school with), who i will not name, became a fan of 'Teabagging' (look it up if you don't know what it is if you have the stomach for it) which i can assure you is not pleasant. Now I don't really want to know this type of info about a facebook friend's sexual escapades but it seems fine to them to tell everyone about their love of 'teabagging'.
Same goes for stupid ones like Roger Moore's Right Eyebrow or Dan Aykroyd's Bald Spot. You can't be fans of bald spots surely.
4) People who you didn't like from school, and who you are pretty sure you weren't friends with, adding you
I am sure we can all relate to this one. Though, because I am too polite for my own good, I still accept their friend request. Why do i do this? It's because I don't want to seem rude and ill-mannered. I have daft thoughts that they will verbally abuse me from a great height if i don't accept them.
How pathetic is that....
Facebook needs to buck its ideas up before I convert to Twitter for good.
