Top 8 Reasons To Now Avoid Facebook

Not very long ago, I was supporting the Facebook social network. Now, I feel like this: "It went from being a confusing nuisance to a best friend and even, at times, a lifeline" then right back to being a nuisance! I am not saying to negate everything I have said about the top 8 reasons to love Facebook but that I have a lot of additional experience and that, as more users have come and changes have been made to the site, more undesirable things have been driving me away. Here are the Top 8 Reasons I Now Avoid Facebook:

• A lot of it has become about music, money, advertising and the like. If you recall, when the opposite was true, it was the #1 reason that I said Facebook was lovable. A lot of events, requests and actual profiles are now just there to either spam you or rob you. Most of the rest have the same goal but will just take your money and time when you allow, rather than underhandedly.
  
  
• Speaking of spam, it used to be that the only spam was from fake profiles or hacked into profiles but now, due to all of the above, friends have also been inadvertently spamming friends.
  
  
• I would speak on fake profiles now and probably will in just a minute but first, I must ask, what's up with the back-to-back group messages, party invitations, etc.?? What ever happened to "No, not interested means no, not interested"?? If I don't respond soon and even when I do, they fill my in-box with more messages which only makes it much less likely that I'll be able to see the messages that actually say important things. We've become excessive in our impatience instead of more efficient. You know, God is not nearly as slow as we assume just because He doesn't do things when we'd prefer. God doesn't chill when it's time to work. We do; we need extra time to process things...so why don't we all just chill out with the messages and let them process?!
  
  
• Now, about those there fake profiles -- If you're not doing work online (such as freelance writing/blogging/anything with websites), you do not need more than one Facebook page and one profile. People have their profile, a fan page, their other profile for their other friends and then one for their coworkers which is the one that actually has their real name on it. Why? License to false claim swings both ways and is a door that leads to destruction. Just like you can have several personae to fool others and yourself, others are creating fake profiles with pictures of other people or quotes from other people to give a false image of themselves or that person. Then, they have the nerve to spam you.
  
  
• There are too many games which take up too much time and are extremely high maintenance. If I wanted that stress and had the money, I'd have a real puppy or farm or cafe. Don't give me stress for a game! You mock me, Facebook.
  
  
• It is now too personal. Too much is connected and shared. Everybody knows everybody which can be good but is usually bad in these cases. Privacy is like a Utopian, idealistic joke on Facebook these days and the wall feed, I realize, is more like a Twitter time-line than words between a person and their friends..it's just random and impersonal.
  
  
• Nobody wants to "like" AND interact with my fan page. *Tear* What's up with the fandemonium?? All I'm trying to be saying here is that everyone wants someone to "like" or "share" or do something for something. Stressful pressure is not fun regardless of which end of that spectrum you are on.
  
  
• I was on for three to four years and have about 700 friends. Wowzers on that one. Imagine twenty people starting a conversation with you at once every time you log into the site. That's quite overwhelming, especially when you probably don't want to talk to some of them anyway and some of the others only speak the same small talk every time and yet still, others will make demands such as "Let's chill" when you have a ton of work to complete before you can even try to get what chill means and which Britney W. or Andrew F. wants you to do it. No, I don't want to chill, or party or buy your sneakers off of your spam site. I'd shut it all down if it weren't for the fact that it is what I built... I added all of those friends, and most were actually friends at some point or another at that. So hey, I just made another profile for the people I did want to talk to and made a fan page for my writing. I hate having two personal pages but this was a reasonable reason (whatever that means) and I will phase one of them out eventually (figure that one out...I can't).