I need to vent here for a few seconds...

I've usually avoided these kinds of sites (Hi5, Friendster...) because I saw them as a waste of time and potentially addictive. Facebook on the other hand was different at first because of its focus on being mostly for college students. It was also a great means (and still is) of keeping in touch with friends in a more fun way than emailing.

But...then Facebook all of a sudden allowed the MySpace teenager crowd to join. Then stupid little applications starting appearing. I mean who cares about the "What Is Your Stripper Name?" application? Or the "Stud of the Month" crap? Anyone else sick of these stupid applications that have NO POINT?

Seriously, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is up with these stupid applications!? When I need to tell some of my friends something the quickest way to do it is usually on their wall. Yet with all these dumb applications it takes ages to find the damn thing. I've spent minutes on some people's profiles looking for their wall. I couldn't find it and had to end up sending them a private message.

Worse, all these dumb applications slow down the loading speed of the page.

Ever since they allowed little kids to join Facebook, this site has been going downhill. I hate these damn applications with a passion. I've removed a few "offenders": people who keep sending me invite after invite to add some lame application.


What also annoys the hell out of me is when someone in another country sends you an invite to some event I sure as hell won't be attending.

"Um, I am in Germany right now. I am busy. No, I will not be attending your wedding in Zimbabwe! Get real!"

"No, I can't make it to your Bar Mitzvah in Mongolia!"



Rant over! Thanks for reading!

Dam right about the rants, and especially this one.. the facebook page is so slow now, and I am on high speed net connection already. Who really cares about "when I will get married'' or "Am I hot or not'' . There are ads popping up everywhere and useless ''relationship'' or ''do you want to date this friend'' crap. Very annoying indeed.

Exactly!

I can't believe that some "mature people in their mid to late 20s" even add these dumb applications!

I mean I have nothing against people adding some (aka "few" applications), but there are people on Facebook that have to add every single God damn application ever invented! Terrible!

And then you get a billion requests to join or add those applications.

Yep!

And those dumb invites to attend some event in another country a million miles away. Like I am really going to hop into a jet to see someone get married I hardly even know!

Lucky I don't have a clue what you are talking about because I don't have Facebook!

As you said, I didn't won't something taking over my life, so unlike basically everyone I know I don't have an account. Reading threads like this reminds me I made the right decision!

Thanks

The only reason why I sign up on facebook is to see what kinda of photos of me did my friends post up on the net. Sometimes you need to keep an eye of those secret photos people take while you are not aware of it.

I am hardly on Facebook these days, but it is annoying to reply to friends who have a zillion applications on their profile that slow down your browser (even has caused mine to hang and crash a few times!).

Well yes, it's becoming increasingly hard not to sign up, because everyone asks if you're on facebook and did you see this or that on facebook.

When I join university in September, I may have to join to keep in contact with everyone at home, and people I meet at uni!

BTW, having never used either, why did everyone suddenly switch from Myspace to Facebook. What is the big difference. How does Bebo compare??

Word brother!

On another note, Facebook has never even been a good way for students to keep in touch.