<p>constantly changing status
frequent status updates… who cares if she or he is sleepy or hungry or lonely or went to school and bored or love life?</p>
<p>farmville/fishville/mafia wars. friend requests from people I don’t know who go to my school. when people who went to my hs/middle who I never chilled with request me. people who feel the need to put up pictures of them drinking/bar hopping/doing illegal things.</p>
<p>I hate when people…</p>
<p>A. Post song lyrics as their status. </p>
<p>B. Post vague attacks or other items of a personal nature about their friends when we all OBVIOUSLY already know who it is. Tacky.</p>
<p>I hate it when…</p>
<ol>
<li><p>My aunt constantly asks me to join the Mafia.</p></li>
<li><p>Complete strangers pretend to be my second cousins so I can “friend” them.</p></li>
<li><p>Posting really risque/inappropriate comments and statuses. Its disgusting to read that you want to bang your sociology teacher or that you got really drunk on Saturday. Does anyone really want to know that?</p></li>
<li><p>Saying inside jokes on your status.</p></li>
<li><p>Posting vague ideas and dumb questions.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Sorry to be annoying and get a little sidetracked here…will save me from having to make a new thread =p.</p>
<p>Hypothetically, if I were to make a FB and I wanted my middle initial to show up on display with the rest of my name (i.e. Jane G. Doe), would I add it on to my first name when I make the account or just edit the middle name section after I make the account? Thanks! Google let me down on this one.</p>
<p>I’m so guilty of song lyrics. I post lyrics from Matt & Kim and The XX all the time. Guilty.</p>
<p>Mark Zuckerberg or whatever his name is.</p>
<p>I barely ever use facebook anymore because I don’t feel the need to know everything that’s going on in people’s lives via their statuses. It was cool freshman year, but I couldn’t care less about it now.</p>
<p>It used to annoy the hell out of me when I got 5 different messages about the same party.</p>
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<p>Seriously. There was a person on my friends list once who updated their status once every five minutes one night. It went from “x is working on her paper” to “x has a cold” to “x is coughing” etc. That person was taken off of that list that night.</p>
<p>Oh, also for the people out there who come up with some ridiculously ostentatious middle name to make themselves sound cool–something along the lines of John Imsofreshcheckmyswag Smith–just stop it.</p>
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<p>This. I miss Facebook via 2007 or 2008, probably one update after I first joined. That was good stuff. Fewer games, no liking, etc. Someone should start a social networking site more akin to the old Facebook. I keep my Facebook limited to about fifty friends (REAL friends or people I ACTUALLY want to keep in touch with) and try to police my account regularly, but it is getting harder and harder… and I don’t appreciate the new “links” in the profile.</p>
<p>^ I’m curious to see about this Diaspora Project thing by those NYU students. For all we know though, it might start out like 2007 Facebook and end up like 2010 Facebook. =\ </p>
<p>I’m waiting for graduation (in like 2 years) to delete a chunk of people from my list. I’ll just leave those that I keep in touch with or want to keep in touch with. It might be down to 100 or less. I don’t want to feel awkward if I still make idle chit chat with them in class, hehe.</p>
<p>I hate how the profile page links the pages you “like” to each category. I prefer when I could write the books, or music, or movies that I like rather than them just doing it based on fan page.</p>
<p>I don’t like the change of “become a fan” to “like” especially it’s impact on the info section. The demise of groups in favor of “like” pages is annoying. The strange meme pages, like lol jk that I hate and the “the awkward moment when” which produced some funny stuff (I favourite is “the awkward moment when you ask Gordon Brown where he lives” HA!).</p>
<p>I actually quite like the commenting on the posts and such, as it’s direct. I also like how all the the applications are hidden in a tab.</p>
<p>Yeah the changing of your interests to be actual Pages and not just things you write down really annoys me.</p>
<p>My Facebook Qualms: (apologies if anything has been repeated)</p>
<ul>
<li>Photos with alcohol/drugs visible or obviously drunken/under the influence behavior. Being drunk is one thing. Purposely taking a ton of pictures with vodka bottles in hand and posting them on Facebook so that people can see how “cool” you are is another.</li>
<li>People who turn Facebook statuses into their diaries and indulge too much confidential/unnecessary information. </li>
<li>Farmville. Luckily, I think the obsession has subsided a bit though. </li>
<li>Clingy girls who write on the same guy’s wall saying “OMGGG I MISS YOU SOOO MUCH WE NEED TO HANG OUT!” every week. Just hang out with him already. God. </li>
<li>People who friend people just to up their friend count.</li>
<li>Middle schoolers and below with Facebooks.</li>
<li>Albums with vain pictures of only oneself posing suggestively in front of a webcam.</li>
</ul>
<p>A lot of this was not so much of a problem with the old Facebook, circa 2007-2008 when I first joined. That was when Facebook was at its best. It started going downhill with the introduction of 3rd-party applications and now the place is just a MySpace clone as people have already said. But it’s such a paramount fixture in most people’s lives that I can’t seem to get rid of mine, unfortunately. I definitely am not on as much as I used to be, though.</p>
<p>Yeah, 2005/2006 Facebook was meh. 2007 was the best version IMO.</p>
<p>Raise your hand if you remember when you had to go to hs.facebook.com if you were in high school!</p>
<p><em>raises hand</em> 
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<p>I dont use any features of Facebook except reading my friends’ status updates and using the wall; I also check pertinent pages like 2014 pages or pages for Stanford. Other than that, I don’t use Facebook for anything… and I loathe Facebook Chat (and refer potential chats to Skype).</p>
<p>I agree with everyone about the linking favorite things from the profile.</p>
<p>I also read part of an article on Yahoo the other day about how the facebook people are trying to do damage control about the privacy issue. I read about the IM conversation the founder had a few years ago where he was bragging about getting personal information from so many people: “People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me.’ Dumb [expletive].” Apparently this IM convo was common knowledge, but this was the first I’d heard of it. Scary. :/</p>
<p>[Contrite</a> Facebook CEO promises new privacy controls - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100524/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2204]Contrite”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100524/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2204)</p>
<p>Fyi, for people who want to do any little bit they can to protect their info, it’s best not to have your whole birthday on your profile. Once identity thieves have that, it’s much easier to get the rest of your information. So it’s best to have just the day and month posted if you can.</p>
<p>I would have to agree with everyone on this thread.</p>
<p>Stupid question but, do you guys take it personally when someone deletes/unfriends you off of their list?</p>
<p>Pet peeve: People that delete you when they have like, 2000 ‘friends’ on their list.lol.</p>
<p>Girls especially that that pictures of themselves or places they go or hang out with their friends JUST to post it on facebook to look cool.</p>
<p>@Eastafrobeauty if it’s someone I actually know and talk to a lot then yeah I’d take it personally. If it’s some schmuck I talked to a few times in math class I wouldn’t really give a damn.</p>
<p>“Stupid question but, do you guys take it personally when someone deletes/unfriends you off of their list?”</p>
<p>I am sure I wouldn’t even notice.</p>
<p>I go through every few months or so and delete everyone I don’t actually talk to.</p>
<p>I generally use it to keep in touch with people who I don’t see often anymore or as often (high school classmates, work friends, friends I’ve met from other places/organizations/convention, etc). A lot easier to type their name in and easily be able to message / write on their wall rather than remember their email, at least for me.</p>