10 good reasons why I don’t like facebook
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10 good reasons why I don’t like face book
There are 10 very good reasons why I don’t necessarily like face book, but in order to answer this question you have to understand why I started to use Facebook in the first place and what I was using it for. I initially signed up for Face book to network with other designers.
I was a member of Face book for 9 months before I realized I didn’t really like face book and that it was pretty stupid. I came from MySpace I liked MySpace, but MySpace turned into a free dating service, in other words MySpace is what people call the new booty call, or the social hookup site. I was told that if I wanted to remain a respectable character on the social networking scene I had to give up my MySpace account, so I went ahead and moved my social suitcase over to Facebook.
I remember the day I began to create my wall on Facebook, even then I thought facebook was lame, I thought to myself, you can’t create and personalize your own page this is so uncreative? So here it begins my list of reasons why I really don’t like Facebook, and there are 10 really good ones.
10 good reasons why I don’t like face book
1.)The face book area is boring there’s no real personalization -
is whether you noticed it or not, Facebook makes sure that your page your wall never changes, sure you can write on it, but you can’t add music you can’t add your flare, you can’t add html or scripts, you can’t change the color- you can’t do anything but look at face books blue and white branding and their logo. Coincidence I think not. Facebook is not fun.
2.)There is no Privacy on Facebook-
you have to use your real name and can’t use a nickname. Facebook communicated your activity behind your back and messages and inboxes are constantly flooded with spam, even after unblocking a friend and putting all her messages as spam I still continued to receive spam messages from this individual. I use facebook as a means of networking and I don’t like using my real name, because I feel it’s dangerous to give out personnel info. For instance just with someone’s name I can look up where they live in about 5 seconds. If I can do things like that serial killers and stalkers can to.
3.)Facebook is a time waster by unprofessional individuals-
Most people on facebook are not professionals rather they are wasting time playing useless games like Yoville, Farmville and mafia wars, how old are you? It just irritated me how people would get excited because they found some new key or element in their little farm world. I don’t want or need to network with someone who spends his day in a cyber farm world. I was asked to join once and explained that I had much more important things to do. I never had one person on my Facebook with anything intelligent to say, and the ones that were intelligent didn’t say much because they were just there like me I guess to get some exposure to their site or blog.
4.)Constantly being spammed on facebook and the ridiculous fan requests-
The fourth reason is the mass amounts of request to join groups and to become a fan of some idiot with a fan page, but these groups never reached out to the people that joined. It was as if you’re being collected as a trophy and then they would move on, it was almost like a popularity contest if you ask me. Fan pages are created by these individuals who feel the need to validate that they are still alive I guess, thus they create fan pages to boost their imaginary popularity. The reason why I say imaginary, because it seems the only one their convincing that they are popular with these fan pages is themselves. I think people who have fan pages need help.
5.)Facebook has an extremely poor navigational structure and flawed design concept-
The fifth reason for sure is the inability to control anything really on your page. The lack of usability is horrible and the navigation is horrendous. I am a web designer/web developer and I am also a designer, a graphic artist to be exact, so if someone with my magnitude of technical knowledge can’t even navigate around face books page, obviously there is a huge design and navigational flaw within their site. I hate the fact that you have to allow or download a facebook app just to upload 1 picture, oh and you can’t bulk upload you have to do 1 freaking pic at a time. Very time consuming and the facebook site is slow as a turtle. There so many application problems and usability issues there’s too many to list, but the one thing that really annoys me is the fact you can’t drop html anywhere.
6.)Facebook Friend collectors-
The sixth most annoying thing about Facebook is its users, people will randomly just add you as a friend for no reason, they are not part of your crown you have nothing in common, they don’t even know you. I refer to people such as this in what I like to call friend collectors. Maybe these friend collectors don’t have any friends in real life, so they feel the need to take up a collection on facebook and boy do they collect.
7.)The mass amount of fake accounts that are on Facebook
The seventh reason- people on Facebook are really fake; Facebook is like your own personnel Pleasantville. Everyone gets to have the perfect life, the perfect business and the perfect relationship. Facebook is like an online resume of what you wish your life was like, rather than the profile info you just made up. Even businesses on facebook disgust me, they say they use facebook to communicate and remain loyal with their customers. Please name one business you know of who actually communicates with their customers on facebook, I’m sure Wal-Mart has better things to do than to write on walls all day as if. None of these businesses care and if they do they are only in it for marketing sakes duh.
8.)The vast amounts of Facebook applications that either don’t work or are useless-
The eighth reason -. I can’t stand all of the weird applications that people request that you sign up for its stupid and half of them don’t work anyways.
9.)Have not been able to find the un-friend button on Facebook-
The ninth reason- I still can’t find the button to un-friend people or the button to find people. Only if you have their e-mail address, I don’t know about you but I don’t go around memorizing e-mail addresses and neither should you, If you can remember at least 5 e-mail addresses of your friends in your head you should get a grant or something. Well it just seems the only people you do find on facebook are Lurkers, people looking for someone to buy their stupid e-book or sales pitch. Speaking of stupid e-books here is an example of a stupid e-book.
10.)Facebook deletes/disables accounts without warning for no apparent reason
- that means if you actually use your Facebook account you’ve probably been deleted or disabled more than once.
Number 10 – but this is really the number one thing that I really don’t like about face book. If you have ever been on MySpace you know that its slow as hell due to the mass traffic and activity right. Well MySpace doesn’t delete your account for using it to much in one day. Facebook however controls people’s bandwidth use by deleting their account if you say upload to many pics or write too much on your wall or comment to much, if you use facebook to much they will just disable your account or delete it with no warning whatsoever. There’s really no customer service to call, so you can’t get any of your images back or if you had some important contacts or information on facebook it’s gone. Plus whatever you wrote on others walls is deleted as well. So whatever you did on Facebook is a big fucking waste of time. And so to conclude facebook is a big waste of time and that’s all it really is.
I am suggesting that someone bright comes out with something new, something better than MySpace and Facebook, and understand while most of the people on social networking sites are there to social the other half is there to market or pursue the social bugs, so we need a system that will work seamlessly with the two. My idea is networking sites where friends aren’t picked at all you get a randomly new set of friends every 30 days based on profile criteria, interest and things of such nature, kinda like a friend stumble site.
I feel this is a great way to enforce that all networking be random and in a non predatory way. For example, the way its set up now, if you want to find a certain group of people you want to target, you can on any social networking site, “you can predatorily target anyone on social networking sites.” This is the main people are presumably guarded fake or standoffish and less forth coming with profile info.
Facebook and MySpace are not real social environments, and any marketing data used from these sites are flawed, because a lot of the people on these sites just aren’t being truthful. That’s why my idea of a random environment would propose a better way for individuals really wanting to socialize and or network with people who share a common goal or interest. In social stumble No one is able to see anyone’s profile therefore they have nothing to lie about, the profile data is only used to randomly pick people that would be a good fit.
This could open a lot of doors for people as far as networking goes, and no one would have to be afraid of being targeted by marketers and salesmen, it would be pure innocent good social connections, and that’s how it should be. You see your friends and family and co workers everyday so why do you need to face book or MySpace them? People really need something like what I’m proposing here it would be a huge hit I bet my life on it.
10 good reasons why I don’t like face book
written by: Charlotte S.
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