5 Things That Bug me about Facebook

First of All

Before I begin, I need to get something out in the open. I am a huge hypocrit. Many of the things that I'm about to write about, I'm completley guilty of myself. Yes, I do change my status once an hour, and yes I am facebook friends with 1000+ people. I'd just like to point a few things out...oh and I'm not writing this with any particular person.


With all of this in mind...





5. "The New Facebook Sucks"

It is completley natural for people to be resistant when something they've become acustom to makes a big change, but I've noticed that certain groups of people have been a little more than open about expressing how much they hate the new face-lift. The key things to consider are that, although you may have been in love with how facebook formally looked, many people abused the old facebook. If you had ever tried viewing a person's profile that had 50+ applications on it, you know what I'm talking about. The people behind facebook are some of the smartest mind's in the world. and I can assure you that they wouldn't do anything if they didn't think it would be for the best.


4. Groups

A few weeks ago, I wouldn't have placed Groups on this list, but my inbox has been filled with unbelievably dumb group invitations. So, I had to do it. Which group invite pushed me over the edge? "MARK ZOMBERG SAID IF 1,000,000 PEOPLE JOIN THIS GROUP HE'LL GO BACK TO THE OLD FACEBOOK!" (The creator of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg." I'd like to point out that this isn't even close to the dumbest group invite I've gotten. Rule of thumb: Only join a group of you'd actually go out and join an interest group in your community.



3. You Are Your Digital Self

I hate to sound like some reporter on CNN that tries to warn parents about what their children are doing on the internet, but seriously...ask yourself these questions, and try to answer them truthfully.


A. Would you walk up to your friend, in front of every person that they know, and say "oh shit we got so fucked up last night!!!"

B. Would you walk up to your friend and put a sticker on their shirt? How about 30 of them?

C. Would you mail out pictures of yourself going to the bathroom, passed out, half naked, puking, or gettin' all up on a person who's name you can't even remember; to everyone that you know?

The reality is, everyone has access to what you post. on the internet, and anymore, employers are searching

websites like facebook and myspace to get a behind the scenes job application. (By the way, if your answer to letter C is yes....)



2. Single, Relationship, Complicated, Relationship, Single, Complicated...

This speaks for itself. If you don't have your shit together, that's ok. It really is. Being in a crappy relationship happens to the best of us. The issue isn't that you're in the crappy relationship, the issue is you are filling my newsfeed with your drama. Don't waste my time please. (And as a little hint, if you're in a relationship like that, you're wasting your own time.)



1. Photoshop+Professional Photographer=Art
Photoshop+Anyone else=Annoying as Hell




I'm not sure what bugs me more, the new fad of people changing colors, warping, adding effects, and writing all over their pictures. Listenn, I don't need you to write in super silly letters "BFF FOREVER AND EVER" all over a picture of you and your friends hugging...I get it. Scrapbooking in real life, and doing whatever it is people call these messed up pictures, are two entirely different things. Why did this make #1 on the top five list? Because I really hope it is stopped. I've seen more and more of it latley, and pretty soon people will feel the same way i do. Please, stop ruining your pictures. There is a happy medium between spending half an hour on your pictures making them look like color-by-numbers, and not even taking the time to rotate your photos. Please, let's find that happy medium.