Facebook Has Gone Too Far, and I am NOT Happy About This!
Earlier this year facebook was an addiction for me. It was the best way I had to be in contact with my friends routine without all the nudity and just general garishness of Myspace. But now, my beloved Facebook is little more than a pain in my ass. Since I’ve been using twitter, my FB knowledge has dwindled down to nothing. The only thing I really know how to do on facebook now is update my status, but oddly enough nowadays I can’t do that without issues.
I signed into facebook today to update my status with the newest link to my blog. I tried for almost `10 minutes. Every time I thought it was about to update it wouldn’t. Finally, I remembered that tweetdeck now gives you an option to update your FB status (among other things you can now do on Facebook and Twitter though the application). I was able to update through tweetdeck and will use it to post updates from now on.
Quite frankly, I see no need to log into Facebook. I’m not interested in playing Mafia Wars or Farmville. I’m tired of facebook asking me about my relatives or encouraging me to message, or worse, poke people for no reason AT ALL. Facebook is gotten too pushy. Not only is it pushing its ridiculous ineffective updates on us, it’s now telling me who should I friend or talk to at any given moment.
Enough!
It’s bad enough that myspace has all but folded for most people and now people who I went to high school with have migrated over to facebook and are posting old pictures that really don’t need to see the light of day again. At this point, I’d rather just stay off facebook. And if it wasn’t for all the inadequacies of twitter, I probably would.
What do yall think? Has facebook gone too far?
I agree wholeheartedly. At first I refused to get a Twitter bc the concept of "status only" was just wack to me. Then I got one and still didnt use it AT ALL for 6 mos. When I started using it though....I found its way more convenient than FB. Tweet and go. It works.
However, like you said, FB is doing the most with the most ineffective. I wouldnt push it to be on line with MySpace just yet, though. And that's only because on FB, it's primarily effective for me in that it keeps me connected with my RL folk--my fam, hs friends and friends from college I dont get to see too often. Other than that though, I just log on about once a month to check messages and update my pic and status.
Im a little tired of the insane amount of event invites I get via Inbox though. Aint gonna lie.....smh