Wow. You really covered the worst offenses Facebook has to offer, especially with number one. There's a ton of people from my high school who friended me, though I barely know them, and about half of them are crazy gun nuts and Palin lovers. It makes me uncomfortable.

Most annoying thing about FB for me was that insisting on all that personal data. Real name? Hey, this is web, all right, let's behave sane and keep some privacy. But no, let's not stop there. Give us your photo or you will be banned (this actually happened many times). Where do you live? And, of course, your phone numbers? I simply can't believe they still haven't started asking for social security numbers.

And when you combine that with impossibility to delete the account you have one huge database of people's personal data. Then you ask how that thing is monetizing? From advertisements? Yeah, right.

Aw, I really like the "it's complicated" status. Sometimes it's just complicated :).

Applause!!

Re: #9 and #8 - I love you. Can I Facebook friend you?

;)

Dandelion: you don't like Facebook, you don't use it. I'm all for privacy but I enjoy being a part of a social network which is a collection of REAL people, with no aliases or anything of that sort.

I don't want to look through a network I'm part of and see that someone has some ridiculous joke name. It's meant for finding people in real life that you know and communicating. You want your high-school profile pages and wacky personalization, go back to Myspace or get a blog.

And they don't require ANYTHING other than your real name. Your phone number? Where you live? Pics or it didn't happen, bitch. You want to keep everything private you can. But then what would be the goddamn point of being a part of a SOCIAL NETWORK if the people you know can't even identify who you are.

RON PAUL 200...9!

Well, the bottom line is MySpace kicks Facebook to the curb!

www.anonymity.at.tc

I personally was made to start a facebook profile by my college professor. Yea, I am totally serious he actually used it as part of the grade, but he also polayed in a christian rock band that played at coffee shops and he gave extra credit if you attended...... This mind you was a Computer science Prof. Needless to say I never made it to the coffe shops, but I did do the facebook scam, I wonder how many other profs used this method to promote facebook?

has a unique identifier system in place where you can send messages to anyone you see in traffic! That's right people all you need to know is their license plate and their state to send them a message, you may have one waiting for y9ou if your a bad driver...lol.. I like they don't make you create a profike to send messages, but you can create a profile if you choose, and only put the information YOU want to put! it's Revolutionary!

this blog requires my email...? That's worse than real name, but of course I can fake that just like you could fake a real name on FB... Anyway. Re: mob wars. You know you can just block the app requests altogether, right?

You forgot every one on it.

Everything on my Facebook is fake. My name, my email...everything. The friends I have are my real friends and I just explain to them in person that I'm under a fake name on Facebook. My pics are real, but without a real name or email addy, I can't be found by knuckleheads. I set my privacy settings UBER-high and run under the radar. I also block all the irritating apps people keep trying to add me to.

But...

I still like MySpace better.

Facebook is truly depressing. I started an account as a way to get people to look at my websites. It's not working, but man do I have a lot of Facebook friends! I talk to 5 people in real life, yet there are all kinds of people who want to put my face on their enormous 'friends' list. I get so many requests from people that I pretend not to recognize in the grocery store, I'm starting to wonder if they actually know who I am. Maybe they just click 'Add' to every person in the 'People you may know' box. Lame.

I'm with T fake everything, if I befriend someone on FB it is because they are my actual real friend in real life.....do people actually put their real info on there just because a log in page tells them to? SHEEP

Hahaha, great article. Loved it. I'll be back for more.

haha that's funny as hell. I hate facebook

Applause!! Applause!! Applause!! Applause!! Applause!!

Very good collection of Facebook Offences, with a couple of minor tweaks:

- The Baby Photos One: People who use their baby photos as their profile photos are also frustrating - specifically ones where the only person in the photo is the child. How the hell am I meant to recognise you when you "friend" me, if all I have to go on is a photo of a person who, at best, contains 50% of your genetic matter?

- The Facebook Stalker: (Suffered this recently.) People who you add as a friend, only to have them trawl through the tagged photos, the wall posts, the other friends, and all the rest, and then use that information against you. Had an ex do that recently and decide to try and make my life hell - not fun.

I dunno. I'm on there, but every time I log in (very rarely), I just stare blankly at the utter mess that it is. It looks like a pile of junk, with applications, walls, lists, shouts, message thingies. I basically zone out after trying fruitlessly to get anything done in there, and just quit.

And all my "friends" taking stupid quizzes and spamming everyone in their book to take the thing as well.

It's a waste of space for me, frankly.

Yeah, bummer about number 1. So far, my older friends and I have remained pretty closely aligned, but ya know, we're smart-assed, questioning liberals who read BOOKS. Number 5 was funny for bitch-slapping the people who do that lazy, dipshit text message style writing. YUCK!!!

I'm glad the 10th one was on there. I un-friended a guy (I barely know) because he was posting things about "Obama's dirty secrets" etc.

I SOOOOO agree with you on the relationship point!

Nevertheless, these things aren't annoying about Facebook, because the same things could annoy you anywhere in your relationships with people. You may need to learn to stay away from certain people and assertively tell them to &$#@ off, or just to ignore little things others do that may not suit you right now (like having a baby).

Either way, excellent post.

My complaint about FB is the loss of exclusivity. Back in the day, you joined, put your personal info in, and the only people who had any access at all were people in a few universities. Then they added high schools, which was the biggest mistake in history, and then they started letting everyone in. Now my mom and old sunday school teacher want to be my friend, so no more dirty sex quotes in my profile.

I clicked "it's complicated" because there is no selection that says: "My wife is a needy, emotionally manipulative psycho-bitch who lives 3000 miles away from me and I can't serve the fucking papers to her."

So...I'm not "married" in a real sense, I'm not "divorced", ad I'm not legally "single" either. So WTF do you expect?? "It's complicated".

Fuck you.

Had me right up until #1. Way to insult half of your potential reader base; but I guess all you have to do to get on the front page of Digg is to insult Republicans.

Wow! I'm not the only one with simular thoughts...The friends "Addlist"...to name at least one.
I'm here for friends and family. Now its seems to have turned into something else. But it's people who have created this So don't blame it on the face-book it self.
You can always delete your-self or the people you have on it.

I think Facebook is digging its own grave. I dont like the new style of the site. Most annoying groups get started each day

Good list but i like this one better on That's so fetch:
http://thatssofetch.com/2008/09/top-10-most-annoying-people-on-facebook/

Oh Noes!! Someone else has children and has different opinions that me!!

Bigot.

You have no life.