You’re either on Facebook, or you know someone that is on it. What once started as a cool alternative to MySpace that was open only to college students has exploded into the number 1 social networking site, surpassing MySpace and fending off up and coming Twitter. With the floodgates open, some very serious no-no’s were crossed. These are the type of things that can annoy you and even make you think about wanting to quit Facebook (although it’ll never happen, because you check it everyday). Here are the most annoying things about Facebook (in no particular order):
1.) Parents and other older relatives joining Facebook
There’s nothing worse than updating your status on Facebook with some catchy song lyrics that happen to be about love, sex, or drugs and your parents commenting on it, thinking you are now a drug or sex addict. Parents are slowly taking over Facebook and are friending their children, and if you don’t accept your mom as a friend, you really have no soul. It is also very disturbing and makes you get a sick feeling in your stomach when you see your mom took the “How Perverted Are You?” quiz and scored a 90%.
2.) Poke
What’s the purpose of the poke feature anyway? We don’t like to be poked in real life, so why do it on Facebook? Besides, if you are having a “poke war”, in the end, nobody wins. Why? Because you wasted your time clicking a button that does nothing.
3.) Facebook Chat
In the early days, Facebook didn’t have a chat. But now that it does, I wish it would go away. It’s not because it is a stupid feature (a real-time chat is great to have for social networking), but because it never works half the time. Have you IMed a friend and then your message says “sending” with those loading bars coming across? Or how about when all of a sudden your friend is offline, but then comes back online and then they ask YOU what happened, when clearly it was their fault? Facebook should either fix this, or scrap it all together.
4.) “Lost my cellphone, I need numbers” groups
I am sure you have all seen it. Someone on your list has lost their phone or dropped it in the toilet or the ocean or whatever body of water they were near at the time. They create a group asking you to give them your number, but you don’t really have a need/want to give them your number. Here’s an thought. If that person really wanted your number they should have either A – memorized it if you are supposed to be “friends” or B – emailed or asked you in person. Besides, people who don’t even know each other will exchange numbers in the group, for no reason at all.
5.) People You May Know
This tool is basically there to show you people who you sort of know, but don’t really want take the effort to add them as a friend. The tool is also there to show you people who you’ve never seen before in your whole life and to try to convince you that you know them.
6.) Applications and Invites
No, I don’t want to be a part of your mob. No, I don’t want to be a vampire or a pirate or a ninja. And no, I don’t want to help you get a job in Yoville. Although FarmVille is a different story.
7.) Happy Birthday Posts
You know what I’m talking about. If it’s someone’s birthday, they will get like 300 wall posts saying the same thing – “Happy Birthday.” For a majority of the people, it’s the first and only time they will write on that person’s wall the whole year, until the next birthday.
8.) Drunk/High/Hungover Photos
This is not just for Facebook, but for all social networking sites. Do not post a picture of yourself wasted in the bathroom about to throw up. Keep those in the camera or a better idea – DELETE them.
9.) Event Invites
This is just to show other people that you are going to an event, and they weren’t invited.
10.) Random friend requests/friend requests from old friends
So you log in to Facebook, and you see a friend request! Yay! What? Who’s Sloppy Joe? We don’t have any friends in common. Why would he add me…?
Or better yet, the friend request from someone you went to kindergarten with. You accept them as a friend. They write writes on your wall “Hey! how’s it going? Long time no talk!” and you reply back with a similar response. Then, you never hear from them again.
Yeah, I hate anything that requires you to fill out this long survey and then at the end of it all, you gotta pay to get your results.
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Annoyed by Face book? Well check out other things that are annoying about it. Do you agree? yes i doo ! and what about when you get those stupid quiz’s and then to find out the results you have to pay 9. dollars a month on your cell phone bill , o mg !
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i have a few more things to add to annoying things about face book , coming soon , great job Robby !
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