What Annoys You About Facebook?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

Other than the obivous privacy concerns.

My annoyance: People who post those "If you love your spouse/god/country, Press Like" links.

[gratuitous]

1. I still don't have my parents' permission

So I don't know what anyone's talking about when they mention Facebook. I find that very annoying.

[LeftinOH]

2. People who post what they had for dinner, and what they're watching on TV,

and when their kids are going to bed (9:00pm), and when the kids finished their science homework, and that the grownups are having nachos while watching 'Bones', and how much they're looking forward to sleeping on those new 350-thread count sheets they got on sale at Target, and how they.. etc, etc. etc.

In other words, the chronic 'post. every. damn. thing' posters.

[Common Sense Party]

11. Yes. A guy I knew (barely) in high school does that.

He lets us know when he's going to the gym. When he eats a sandwich. When he's watching a football game.

Good grief.

[madmax]

36. THAT!!

You nailed it. I hate FB but, if I want to know what my granddaughter is up to that's where I have to look.

I also have friends, my age who belong to FB. What drivel they post - who cares? What makes people think that any mundane bullshit minor occurrence in their lives needs to be immortalized on FB? There must be a name for it.

[merh]

37. They did a study

Facebook users 'are insecure, narcissistic and have low self-esteem'
By Mail Foreign Service


Using Facebook is the online equivalent of staring at yourself in the mirror, according to a study.

Those who spent more time updating their profile on the social networking site were more likely to be narcissists, said researchers.

Facebook provides an ideal setting for narcissists to monitor their appearance and how many ‘friends’ they have, the study said, as it allows them to thrive on ‘shallow’ relationships while avoiding genuine warmth and empathy.

...

The findings, published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour And Social Networking, also suggested that those with low self-esteem also checked their Facebook pages more regularly than normal.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1310230/Facebook-users-narcissistic-insecure-low-self-esteem.html

[madmax]

58. Thanks for posting this

makes sense. The low self-esteem fits someone I know. She spends untold hours and hours on FB. Then again, I should talk. I spend hours on DU :silly:

[tilsammans]

56. You forgot to mention the potty-training posts

Your business colleagues really need to know all about that, y'know.
:shrug:

[Darth_Kitten]

66. LOL I posted what I had for supper the other night.

It was some seriously good buttery mashed potatoes. :)

[Sugarcoated]

77. LOL

People do that here

[LaurenG]

3. I'm OK with facebook.

I wish I'd have thought of it. :)

[Flipper999]

4. I don't like it when people reveal stuff about their sex life on FB.

Yeah, I've seen it happen. No, I never wanted to know about that.

[LSdemocrat]

5. Anything beyond keeping in touch people I know

Facebook games and non-Facebook websites telling me to link a Facebook account are two of my particular annoyances.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. ...and to make matters worse

I tried one of those games. They suck and they're pretty boring.

Don't waste your time.

[last_texas_dem]

7. Extended family and old friends/acquaintances from junior high/high school

(whom I felt obligated to add after they sent me requests) with their reactionary political and fundy Xian nonsense.

Yeah, I know there's the "hide" function, but that feels like such a cop-out. Besides, once in a blue moon they may say something to redeem themselves, and I'd miss it!

Seriously, though, that kind of junk basically spoils the whole Facebook experience for me. I feel obligated to hold back from being who I am, for a variety of reasons. Mostly a personal problem, I guess. I like Twitter much more.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

8. I "unfriended" some people over the Mosque issue...

Posted some real hateful crap, and I put it in my status: If bigotry based on religion is all right with you, then you're no friend of mine.

Double Bonus: They were some of the worst offenders of my "If you love Jesus, click Like" pet peeve.

[Kali]

9. there doesn't seem to be anything substantive there

also I am on slow dial up and the photos load slow, everything has to be "expanded" or linked and it all goes too slow. It isn't as bad as my space where people all had flashy crap and music loading on their pages but...meh, not for me other than checking on the kids and a couple of real life friends - no offense to the 3 or 4 (?) DU friends I have there but I'd rather see you here. I like the lounge better.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. Mark Zuckerberg

[Common Sense Party]

12. I think that kid mowed my lawn last week.

[Roon]

13. Nothing annoys me about facebook

I have nieces and a nephew away in college and I also have several long distant relatives. I love being able to keep up with everyone and also have a way to send a quick message via facebook.

I guess there is one little thing I don't care for on facebook. I am not anonymous so I have to be on my best behavior at all times,that's not fun! :evilgrin:

[KeepItReal]

22. It's funny how the more your network grows, the more you censor yourself

When I first joined, I could say anything, but once you add your dad and your cousins, you can't be as off the chain with your posts...

South Park did a really good episode on FB.

[Roon]

41. I don't watch TV

but i would love to see that southpark episode.

[Posteritatis]

43. I find that sort of interesting, myself

I actively try not to do the self-censoring stuff too much, but now and then a few new contacts will plant the urge to in my head, and I spend awhile trying to figure out why I'm reacting that way. It's been insightful a few times.

[XemaSab]

80. I found a little bit of the opposite

the more "friends" I have that I feel comfortable with, the less I censor myself.

So what if I want to post a link to a song or whatever? Real friends will understand, and if you're not a real friend who cares?

[bikebloke]

14. I must have befriended the right people and organizations.

I've seen none of those. Nor the minute to minute updates of mundane everyday life - going to the grocery store, scratching my ear, getting a drink of water etc.

[TorchTheWitch]

15. It's existence

It's MySpace 2.0. I don't see the point of it other than the need to network and get out info to a large group of people like a band needs to do for the their fans so they don't have to purchase and maintain their own website and making it easier to attract new fans by going to a huge group of people rather than trying to somehow attract new people to a personal website.

[Blue Diadem]

16. Strangers wanting to be friends and

one particular old boyfriend who wants to be friends as well. Heh I think I dated the guy all of a month and he was an ass, total ass. Why would I want to be his friend now?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

27. What I can't figure...

is the algorithm used to determine the people I might want to friend. I look at them and don't see any commonality. No friends in common. Nothing.

[OmahaBlueDog]

34. Sometimes, it seems like they just send over the name of someone new

Other times, it's friends of friends, or people who like the same things (the Nebraska Democratic Party, for example). Other times, you get suggestions for people who have searched your name.

[Pool Hall Ace]

42. My brother's stalker showed up as a friend suggestion once.

And she wasn't even his FB friend. I immediately blocked her!

[Posteritatis]

45. I have one "like" on my profile...

That like is "Etc."

It's the only one I had left because FB changed the interests system on profiles so that everything had to be a link to a specific page on the site, as opposed to just a clickable list - or a list at all - of terms.

I get all sorts of ridiculous recommendations because "you also like Etc." It's sort of funny now.

Before that I'd get plenty of recommendations because "you both live in (city of 400,000 people)!", which is only slightly more precise.

[jobycom]

17. I just got into over those "Like if you like God" posts.

I posted that I wondered what would happen if I posted "Thank God I'm an atheist" every time I saw one. Went better than I expected, and I found support from a couple of old friends I was afraid would be offended by it.

So those. And of course the friends who play every new game out there, so that I can't even block the games fast enough to keep them from filling my screen.

But the biggest thing to me is when FB constantly changes the structure of everything. They've deleted most of the text in my profile in favor of a link system where instead of just typing in my favorite books, I have to go find links to icons to show them. I don't bother, not wanting to spend all my life on learning message board intricacies that will change before I'm finished, anyway. And now and then I can't figure out how to get to my friends list or other features I'm used to. I love progress, but I wish they had a feathering-in system on their changes so I didn't feel like I'd hit a brick wall sometimes when all I want to do is check mail.

Other than that, I love it. :)

[One_Life_To_Give]

18. People not sending Shovels and getting beat up

I just don't have enough storage and am too cheap to actually pay for a bigger barn. And why is it all the anonymous mafiosos feel free to come by and Rob my MagaCasino and Ask their mafia to attack me.

[cheneyschernobyl]

48. You owe me a new keyboard!

:spray:

I'm addicted to Farmville, Frontierville, and Mafia Wars...so I feel your pain. Getting beat up by the mafia has become routine. If we join up, maybe together we won't get beaten up everyday? What do you say???

:patriot:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. I think it is OK. Like a lot of things in life, it is what you make it. nt

[Forkboy]

20. It all amuses me.

[KeepItReal]

21. Nothing anymore....I suspended my account

May reactivate later on. There was some withdrawal at first ("Man I wish I could post xyz"), but I'm getting used to my restored privacy.

[PeaceNikki]

23. I love when people are Facebook fans of "God". It helps me weed out the loons.

I suppose heathens like me will burn in hell because I didn't "poke" the Lord enough this month or send him Farmville prizes or help his Mafia, huh?

[cheneyschernobyl]

50. You also owe me a new keyboard!

:spray:

When I saw your message, I was laughing/crying for 10 minutes!

:applause:

[Iggo]

61. Poke the Lord?

Gross!

[AsahinaKimi]

24. I just hated that

Game thing where someone gets you flowers, or candy and You feel obligated to send stuff back. I had so many of those going, it became a task to go on Facebook, before even getting to my messages. Meh, I quit FB, I will take TWITTER anytime!

[Quantess]

74. Those "hearts for you" and "flowers" and "angels" and "smile of the day" requests.

Instead of accepting, I block them. Not just hide. I block as much of that canned stuff as I can.

I figure the person will forget they ever sent it to me, until they try to send me another one again only to discover they can't!

[Initech]

25. When friends / relatives post random bible verses with no context to anything.

[femmocrat]

26. It was too time-consuming. I gave up on it.

And it really wasn't very interesting IMO.

[Redstone]

28. Pretty much everything? Like the fact that the world in general cares a

good godamn who I am, or who my "friends" are?

Redstone

[KG]

29. what privacy issues?

[TreasonousBastard]

30. That it exists at all.

[OmahaBlueDog]

31. Farmville and Mafia Wars

The "I love Jesus/America/The Flag/My Gun...who's with me? If you are, press 'like'" are a close second.

I finally figured out how to block the incessant flow of "Your friend has just become a level 23 Mafia member, and he wants you in his criminal army" messages. Don't even get me freaking started on Farmville except ....I DON'T CARE!

[Odin2005]

53. You can block those.

[OmahaBlueDog]

54. Thanks. I did figure that out, but it's good to let others know.

[Quantess]

75. When I get tired of playing farmville, I hide it temporarily

until I feel like "farming" again.

I have at least 45 apps on "hide" permanently, and about 20 others blocked.

Facebook would be unmanageable without hide and block.

[TK421]

32. Could someone tell me how this site is different from MySpace?

I haven't logged onto MySpace in months because I just got fucking bored with it....it's irritating, almost like your regular e-mail..like you get all this junk shit from people you don't know or some rockin' bands that are in your area...

FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And now, it seems like Facebook can dig even DEEPER into your private life so, everyone, You REALLY be careful what you post on there! RIGHT?

I think it was maybe six years ago, everyone was bugging me to get on MySpace because it was "so cool and a great way to keep in touch" Ummmm..no thanks, I've never had a problem with e-mail addresses and sending mail...anyone else?

[TorchTheWitch]

55. same damn thing as MySpace

I think everyone at MySpace ended up transferring to Facebook because MySpace had perpetual problems of crashing for long periods of time and mysteriously losing or changing your html. By the time they were having the massive phishing problems people got fed up with it enmasse.

I never understood the fascination either.

[quakerboy]

33. The dumb ass games

Mafia wars? Farmville? Come on. And certain people who cannot not find a new app to invite me to every few hours. But they are developmentally delayed, and its not really their fault they are inept. But thats more just the persons in question, not facebook itself.

[Orrex]

35. The prohibition against full frontal nudity

Am I right or am I right?

[TZ]

39. You should join seriously

I just started a fantasy lit group and both you and your lovely wife would be welcome to share/advertise all your wonderful endeavors....Plus I and several others are in the process of introducing Motely to Discworld..and I did acknowledge your influence on me there...:hi:

[merh]

38. Did you know?

Facebook is divorce lawyers' new best friend
Whatever you share online can (and will) be used against you in court

...

Oversharing on social networks has led to an overabundance of evidence in divorce cases. The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers says 81 percent of its members have used or faced evidence plucked from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social networking sites, including YouTube and LinkedIn, over the last five years.

"Oh, I've had some fun ones," said Linda Lea Viken, president-elect of the 1,600-member group. "It's very, very common in my new cases."

Facebook is the unrivaled leader for turning virtual reality into real-life divorce drama, Viken said. Sixty-six percent of the lawyers surveyed cited Facebook foibles as the source of online evidence, she said. MySpace followed with 15 percent, followed by Twitter at 5 percent.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37986320/

Divorce, Facebook style

Facebook to Blame for Divorce Boom

Facebook fuelling divorce, research claims

Divorce attorneys catching cheaters on Facebook

There are plenty of more articles on this.

[gmoney]

40. The gloating disguised as chatty updates

[WorseBeforeBetter]

51. Agreed. Then again, it did give us...

http://www.stfucouples.com/

and

http://stfuparents.tumblr.com/

[Posteritatis]

44. Mamarazzi bug me a bit, but I try to just cope

I mean, I understand (as much as I can without kids), but when someone goes six months where they literally cannot say anything without talking about the new baby it sort of makes me wonder if they actually exist anymore. ;)

Past that, apps - all of them - and that ridiculous "pages" thing Facebook implemented last year that forced me to blank my entire profile because I can't customize interests properly anymore.

[bluedigger]

46. They need a "Dislike" button.

I don't want to "Like" the update that my friend's dog died, I just want to acknowledge it without comment. All this other whiny shit is just people who can't manage themselves or their internet use.

[Sky Masterson]

47. The fact that it's not really a book

:mad:

[Inchworm]

49. Religious "likes" and that I feel like a spammer

since I only really use it for Farmville and daughter connection.

:hi:

[Odin2005]

52. The asshole who owns it!

[Chan790]

57. These new "sponsored" likes.

Always in this form:

"stupid idiotic quote" on ★.

I get hundreds of them a day, you can't hide them either. I wish people would read the fine print, these sites are run by people who, (by you liking their drivel) you are giving permission to access your personal information, profiles and friends lists. They're selling that data to spammers...you're the goddamned Typhoid Marys of Facebook and the internet. Stop it!

[frogmarch]

59. Nothing annoys me about Fb.

I can easily look past the nuisance silly "Like" posts and the ones announcing the arrival of new cows and who gave whom a bushel of wheat, and find out about the everyday things my kids and grandkids are doing. My youngest grandchild is a baby and my three eldest are in college. I miss seeing them all in person regularly, and Fb is a good way to keep in touch.

[hippywife]

60. That so many of the people

I enjoyed interacting with here are now there. :cry:

[bif]

62. People who post useless details about their lives

Like: I'm taking my dog to the vet today. Really? Who gives a shit!

[AlabamaLibrul]

63. The "i'm taking a poop and it hurts lol" posters. n/t

[bamacrat]

64. Lack of a dislike button.

Oh and the continual updates that make accessing shit hard. I want to remove myself from a group yet I have to go to the groups page just to get out. Original facebook worked better.

[Darth_Kitten]

65. Telling a friend you are blocking them because you asked them....

why they had a "friend" who was no friend to you, and after explaining how rotten they were to you, still have them up? I would never be friends (these are people from work) who were rotten to her. :(

And this person was and is ROTTEN. Cruel, nasty, back-stabbing and phony. Seriously.

Plus, have to see pictures of her louse boyfriend who she is back with. Abusive, controlling, etc. She had to call the police on him to get him out of her house, he texted and phoned her hundred's of times, and she takes him back. Well, otherwise, he would have to live with his Mommy. This guy has a real nasty past with women. Ugh.

She tells all her Facebook "friends" all about her pending nupituals, but is vague with her REAL friends.
Oh, it's a joke, she tells us.

Maybe I'm just pissed she can't grow up and start choosing better guys. I don't know....

Just my rant.

[mbee]

67. The farm village or whatever that stuff

is people post all the time!

[Quantess]

83. you can hide it!

you can hide almost everything without having to hide the friend themselves!

I wouldn't be able to cope with facebook without hiding everything. Seriously, I have about 60 games, quizzes, horoscopes, etc, either blocked or hidden.

I play FarmVille, but sometimes I even hide that! Until I feel like playing again.

[cwydro]

68. The woman I saw romantically maybe 5 times total

and who is still stalking me there...

She annoys me.

Would have been happy to be friends, but I guess stalking is more fulfilling for her.

Or something.

[XemaSab]

82. .

[crim son]

85. I've been guilty of stalking there and here

but it wasn't a love thing, it was more of a sick fascination by how vile my ex-lover turned out to be. You know?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

69. No there there,

as Gertrude Stein said about Facebook.

[jakefrep]

70. The inability to categorize my "friends"...

between real-life friends whose lives I am genuinely interested in and past acquaintances whose existence I have politely acknowliedged, but with whom I have no real desire to share anything.

[carlyhippy]

73. you can categorize them in lists

I have all my alumni in one list, and they can't see my pictures and other stuff, and normal friends in another list, they can see everything.

[Moondog]

71. The founder. n/t

[carlyhippy]

72. People putting their business all over facebook

There is an all out family feud going on a friend's page. He has family members writing pretty embarassing things on his wall, but he kinda started it by putting family problems on facebook in the first place.

[PassingFair]

76. People who ask me out to lunch and then spend the whole time...

nose-deep in their laptops, updating and
chatting on their Facebook.

Really, I'd take my kid's computer away
for a week for such RUDENESS, although
I'm sure they would NOT do this.

Also, when you talk to someone on the
phone or on skype and they are obviously
otherwise engaged on the net.

Rude, rude, rude.

[MadHound]

78. Everything about it

I find the popularity of Facebook both fascinating and a sad commentary on our society.

[Zavulon]

79. As a non-user of Facebook, here's what annoys me:

1.) How much time my better half spends on it. Once she logs in "just to check a couple things," I've got enough time to watch the first two Godfather movies in a row - guaranteed.

2.) How many people tell me I simply HAVE to join Facebook. I respond by telling them they simply HAVE to blow me.

3.) From what I've noticed, if I were a member of Facebook I would very quickly lose my patience with people posting something in their status and telling me to repost it in my status. Fuck you. I don't need your fucking help with my Facebook status, should I ever get one.

4.) Stupid trends. There was one where women posted their bra colors as if it were some sort of secret, super-cool code, supposedly in support of breast cancer awareness, apparently during breast cancer awareness month. Wow, I'm impressed. Don't include half the population who might donate to your cause, just post those colors as if you're really pulling something over on us. WTF?

I created a Twitter account because I lost a bet (@zavul0n). If I ever lose a similar bet involving Facebook, I'll welch on it (which, of course, means I won't ever make such a bet).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

81. Almost everything.

[WillParkinson]

84. Just Facebook

I don't 'get it'. I tried, really. It's just that the people who I have as 'friends' are people I see most of the time anyway.

[Quantess]

86. Just now, a facebook relative from overseas posted:

"I'm going to clean the oven and then take a shower".

Good thing she writes in a language that I am trying to learn. If that was written in English I'd have to hide her for being so boring!