Reasons why I can’t stand Facebook
One of the many things that I love about Adam is that when it comes to causing mayhem we are always on the same page. The other day we were sitting on the couch and I mentioned that I had been thinking for a while that we should TOTALLY change both of our statuses to ‘Complicated’ and he jumped up and said ME TOO as he headed to the computer to change his whilst over his excitement I said, wait a minute, wait a minute, we can’t.
I had already thought it through and although I wanted to I explained that it was like when we wanted to put Tammy Wynette’s, D-I-V-O-R-C-E on our wedding CD. We thought it was hilarious and ‘certain’ people would have found it funny but when people are flying from the other side of the country to attend your wedding and excited for you and want nothing but the best for you the last thing I’m sure they would want to find on the CD would be that song. So we nixed it. Facebook same thing I said in the end the amount of people that would find it funny [or be happy about it] on our friends list versus the amount of people that would freak out and be facebook mailing and wall posting and sending personal email and instant messaging us was not worth the joke, to us being so close to our anniversary would have made it even funnier but thankfully although we were stoked that we had both thought about it no debauchery did we cause.
Now lets get to it, Reasons why I can’t stand Facebook:
- most applications especially ones that start with ’super’
- people who have their photos blocked, I understand that some people don’t want their employers to know that they are on Facebook fine, but it isn’t about you, it is about me and if it says that photos were added of my friend I want to see them. Isn’t it good enough that no one but the tagged person and the person who posted the photo can comment?
- you can’t comment on the photos on cat or dog book
- people who request me to be their friend who are from Smithers because that year book is in storage and if I don’t remember you it sucks because I likely won’t admit it
- people who aren’t in the year books I have from Terrace in the apartment and claim to have gone to school with me
- that because it is now way over loaded than they ever expected it to be it is slow and stupid right now and it also throws me out a lot
- how bent out of shape some peoples’ significant others get about ‘the past’, when I first signed up I was honest about that stuff but now because I’ve heard about so many people freaking out and some people changing statuses to ‘we met through a friend’ when they know full well we only ‘hooked up’ makes me laugh. The past affecting you and controlling your life are very different things
- when facebook uploads one of my blog posts from my feed so fast that I haven’t had time to tweak small errors
- when facebook doesn’t upload from my blog feed and I have to delete and re-ad my feed
- that I can’t add photos that I added to groups first into any of my albums, it should work both ways
- ads on my feed
- Kid Carson
- conversations without some mention of something on Facebook are almost non existent and *almost* everyone including myself mentions facebook constantly on their blogs
August 9th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
i *think* you forgot poking.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
i am ok with regular poking it is the ’super’ poking and stuff like that i don’t like.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Does this mean you won’t challenge me to a game of Facebook Scrabble?
August 9th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I am really trying to like facebook, but I can’t, and you aren’t making it any easier…
…I figured it was just ’cause I’m old…
August 9th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Facebook is alright, but I prefer blogging.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:10 am
I am not on facebook and I’m trying very very hard to stay away from it. Same goes for MySpace. I HATE MySpace.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:20 am
I have to say: I’m a Blogger whore and proud. All the nothers seem….fussy imitations of a good thing. There’s only so much fun one can get from poking and vampire/zombie biting friends.
August 10th, 2007 at 3:51 am
I can’t get face book at work. It’s useful but it’s so overloaded with junk. I only use it to say hi to friends that I don’t live near.
It’s ALWAYS bad news when an ex appears on there, like mine did recently. Yes, the dreaded ex is stinking up the place and I can’t resist the odd peek to see how life has worked out for her. Although it’s a boost to see that her life is pretty crappy, I know she’s probably viewed my profile out of curiosity. You can’t escape anybody anymore!
August 10th, 2007 at 5:17 am
Here here! Well said old girl! Bravo!
I hate all the fucking moaning and problem causing shit on that too!
Like the MySpazz, you get people who never, i mean NEVER liked you in High School trying to add you and are all like “How are you? Married (You’re in a cool marrage, you two totally don’t count) with a kid yet? you should try getting married and having kids……” Bollocks!! You wouldn’t piss on me if i was on fire 8 years ago and now you want to give me advice on running my life?!?!? I get to have sex with whoever i want without booking a baby sitter in advance, stick that on your ‘Super Quotes’ list.
*Sigh*
Rant over.
Wasn’t it you Mrs C, that talked me over to Facebook though?
What did you say?….oh that’s right
(and i quote) “Facebook Facebook FACEBOOK!”
Arf!
Nothing that good on the internets could stay that good on the internets for long.
xo
August 10th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
That’s an awesome roundup.
I removed my blog feed, while I liked the extra exposure 1) they are making ad money off your content 2) anything you post on facebook now belongs to facebook.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Tiana: i think adam has that application invite him, i can’t spell anyway
David: thanks for stopping by again!
Maja: me too
JaG: i cancelled my myspace i also do not enjoy it.
Lyvvie: i wanted to be a zombie pretty bad but i still ended up taking that down.
Chris: so far so good none of my exs that i have any problems with have shown up. fingers crossed.
C.J: dude, yes it totally was me. FACEBOOK FACEBOOK FACEBOOK!
R: i was going to take the feed down for that very reason but i don’t seeing as i have found my home address and phone number on the internet numerous times i figure unless im actually going to try and publish for money let them have it. if i were to start getting people buying ad space etc…i would for sure take it down. but the them making money off my content now that makes me re think it a little…
August 10th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
i haven’t mentioned facebook (on my blog) once..
also, YOU GOT ME STARTED on it!!
now i’m a 48 level fucking pirate ARRRRRRRRR!
xx
p.s. i would NEVER block you out of my photos - EVER!
August 10th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
pps., i would have totally laughed at the “it’s complicated” label if you and ABC did choose to do that. i’d be thinking “YEAH RIGHT!”
August 10th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
the thing about listing people hooking up makes me laugh too. i would say i hooked up with so and so and then they would be like NO PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT YOU WILL CAUSE DRAMA WITH MY BOYFRIEND and change it to met randomly or some crap. fags. :: shrugs :: quick to hook up but then deny deny deny.
August 12th, 2007 at 12:10 am
lol, jared: “…quick to hook up but then deny deny deny.”
August 13th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
i guess i’ve chosen not to get on any of the network sites. aside from them being too much trouble, they’re too much exposure, too.