I'm not a huge facebook fan, but I find that, most of people who have beef with facebook simply do not know how to use facebook and complain for the wrong reasons.

I keep facebook very personal, literally everything I have is either friend-only or myself-only. It has its flaws, but it serves its purpose; just spend some time and learn to use the thing properly.

elmizzt

United States3309 Posts

November 16 2010 06:34 GMT

#22

On November 16 2010 14:13 LosingID8 wrote:
you can block any application with about 3 clicks of the mouse...

This. Seriously. I havn't seen any application spam in years.

Monoxide

Canada1190 Posts

November 16 2010 06:45 GMT

#23

And now they have email. Great....

Meapak_Ziphh

United States6789 Posts

November 16 2010 07:05 GMT

#24

I removed myself from all those stupid games exept for one and removed all the pages I was fans of except for things I actually liked. I went from around 1500 different types of things allowed to around 100. Most liberating feeling ever.

Shiragaku

Hong Kong4308 Posts

November 16 2010 08:01 GMT

#25

The people who I noticed who seem to hate Facebook are either elderly people who are not technologically apt to begin with and nerds. It is amusing to hear people from LANs bitch how FB is Hell on Earth.

n00bination

United States102 Posts

November 16 2010 08:07 GMT

#26

I'm not sure why people use Facebook. Is it to socialize or what? I honestly see zero point in it.

Shiragaku

Hong Kong4308 Posts

November 16 2010 10:56 GMT

#27

I honestly see no point in watching people play a video game for money.

ryanAnger

United States838 Posts

November 16 2010 11:11 GMT

#28

I use Facebook just to fuck with people. I like to put really crazy status updates that are totally not true, just to see what peoples reactions are.

SlyinZ

France199 Posts

November 16 2010 12:28 GMT

#29

I got a facebook account to troll and to accept the irl noobs that flood me about it.
I very hate how stupid this site is "hurrdurr i go to mc donalds, i take 350 mores pictures"
and all the stupid philosopher "like is hard ok but sometimz u can get mor hard bcoz it not that hard to live hurrdurrderpaderp".

Facebook dont socialize you, i see my friends irl, not in the internetz

NIIINO

Slovakia1320 Posts

November 16 2010 13:17 GMT

#30

get a life nub :D (jk)
Just use it as you want, communicate with friends and stop bitching to kids who like farmvile its their life... I use facebook well i got it open all the time im on the comp. just to talk with friends, look at photos from parties, read some gaming news from Razer, Stealseries atc...
its nice to got everything on one page, i dont care that my gradpa plays only Farmvile and is lazy to answer my messages...
it should connect ppl and yes it is connecting em so i dont see a problem

Fumi

529 Posts

November 16 2010 16:08 GMT

#31

Like people said already, you can block it. And while I agree with you that these features are pointless in a social network, I think people have the right to use them as they want, since they're already there. We all spend a lot of time reading a Starcraft forum and watching tons of streams ridiculously early in the morning and such. It's not that different.

PetitCrabe

Canada410 Posts

November 16 2010 17:35 GMT

#32

I deleted Facebook a long time ago... Never regretted, if somebody wants to know something about me, they can call or MSN... So yeah instead of wasting precious hours on facebook, I do the same thing, but on TL.net

Hypnosis

United States2061 Posts

November 16 2010 18:12 GMT

#33

On November 16 2010 14:35 cascades wrote:
Funny how facebook gaming has thrived when gaming networks have not.

FB games arent hard that's why

shenlong

219 Posts

November 17 2010 15:30 GMT

#34

i personally dislike facebook because

1. i hate the news feeds on everyone, i don't care if someone ended their relationship or if someone posted on wall on another friend.

2. The advertisements piss me off on the side, and the friend suggestions of people who i don't even know.

3. The drama, if a friend posts on the wall to a picture she thinks you look good in and your girlfriend reads the comment and its just something more you have to deal with. Or people giving you shit that you dont message them enough on facebook ect.

i just don't like it lol its definitely not for me

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

November 17 2010 16:04 GMT

#35

I just don't like that people just add others to have the higher friend count. Really, you talk to all 400~ of your friends? Then it recommends I add random people it thinks I know. It becomes a friend's list war, who can have more people added.

Servius_Fulvius

United States947 Posts

November 17 2010 16:12 GMT

#36

I've been on facebook since 2005 when it was exclusive to college students. I remember it being a privilige to have one since you needed a college email AND your college needed to be recognized.

I'm ok with the fact it's not exclusive anymore, but I hate what it does to people (especially those who get addicted to the silly little game applications).

I will continue to do my part and mercilessly make fun of everyone on Farmville.

Comeh

United States18919 Posts

November 17 2010 16:18 GMT

#37

Facebook is for stalking.
No more. No less.

Sprite

United States1015 Posts

November 17 2010 17:47 GMT

#38

On November 18 2010 01:18 Comeh wrote:
Facebook is for stalking.
No more. No less.

The sad part is this is true for alot of people lol.

Ian Ian Ian

915 Posts

November 17 2010 17:59 GMT

#39

It's relatively easy to ignore/block... lol

Kamille

Monaco1035 Posts

November 17 2010 19:30 GMT

#40

My reasons despising it are completely different. It's a complete invasion of privacy first of all. People spending ALL their time on there is quite sad. My main problem is people who do so in libraries. Whenever I need to print something, all the computers in the libraries are taken for people to check their bloody Facebook. Personally, I don't play anything on Facebook and if anyone invites me, I just ignore it.