Top 10 New and Improved Most Annoying Things About Facebook
Posted at 5:00 AM Dec 09, 2009
By Andrea Grimes
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Much can change in a year. Like re-introduction of harem pants into the fashion vocabulary and the election of a black (kinda) president. And the ever-growing world domination of Facebook, which refuses to go the way of Friendster and cede its crown to Twitter or whatever other social networking tool my mom is going to belatedly but enthusiastically discover next.
So while I thought some things about Facebook were annoying last year, and how, a combination of new features and grating old ones have made it even more annoying this year. And so I give you the new and improved most annoying things about Facebook.
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10. The delineation of a "live" vs. "news" feed
Often, "Sally Became A Fan Of GET CREED BACK TOGETHER!!!!1!1!!" says a lot more about whether or not Sally should be on my friend list than Sally's own status updates. Separating status updates from pertinent online behavior bifurcates us into active identities and passive identities, forcing us to question, from a postmodern point of view ... ah, shit. It's just annoying. One News-Live Feed, please.
9. Farmville
Sure, I think a wandering pink or purple cow sounds kind of awesome. If I'm tripping balls. And hopefully if I'm tripping balls, I'm not doing it on Facebook.
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8. It isn't Lamebook
More than once over the past several weeks, I've found myself intending to go to Facebook, but unintentionally or unconsciously typing "Lamebook" into my browser's address bar. This is not so much some kind of psychoanalytic slip as proof that somewhere, deep down, my brain finds poop humor funny. And that's pretty annoying.
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7. You want me to reconnect with who?
They might be dead, your ex, your dead ex or somebody you passed in the hallway once and friended before you realized that was a ridiculously stupid thing to do. Whoever they are, you haven't talked to them in ages. Facebook needs to realize there's a reason for that and quit getting all pushy about writing on walls and sending messages.
6. The Catbook app never really caught on
One of the great disappointments of my life. And my mom's life. I'm pretty sure we're the only two.
Comments
On 5 and 3, I'm so glad there's apparently a cutoff for that. I've done it before, and I think after about 20 messages, it stops. That, or GMail blocked it as spam.
Posted 12/09/2009 at 08:39:04 AM#1 happened to me twice this morning! You're upset about the "derection" this country is headed?!? And I thought I was making a new friend. :(
Posted 12/09/2009 at 09:17:30 AMRegarding #10, I fucking hate that cock-wrangler News Feed. I could probably chain together a much longer string of obscenities, but that would take away precious time from working. And by working, I mean reading through the Questionable Content archive while waiting for the code to compile.
Posted 12/09/2009 at 09:40:02 AMAs a libertarian, I'm always surprised when I find out a friend is member of the one Corporate Party, whether in the Democratic or Republican wing.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it annoying, or as you say in the link, "shameful".
It's called "tolerance of viewpoints that differ from my own", you might try it sometime.
Posted 12/09/2009 at 09:47:29 AM@Liberté, égalité, fraternité:
Posted 12/09/2009 at 11:12:11 AMLittle touchy about a funny little comment that simply points out that having a little line where a person writes their political sympathies is stupid!
Oh and I hate farmville... I always see people playing it in class and it just sucks me in to their game even though I have NO clue what is going on in it, or even what the premise is! I blame farmville for my lack of attention during class!
People are always railing on me because I don't do the while MySpace/ Facebook thing. IMDb is just fine for me.
Posted 12/09/2009 at 12:44:48 PMAndrea, you haven't accepted my friend invite yet!
Posted 12/09/2009 at 01:55:45 PMI got rid of my Facebook account when I grew a brain and realized that it's nothing more than a frightening continuation of high school. There's nothing sadder to me than a bunch of people in their 30s putting their juvenile bullshit front and center for the world (and their bosses, friends, CHILDREN, etc.) to see and comment on.
Posted 12/09/2009 at 06:30:55 PMWait, I was wrong; what's sadder than that is the people in their 50s doing so. *shudders*
Forgot to mention my passionate, undying love for Lamebook. Wonderful, wonderful website!
Posted 12/09/2009 at 06:32:44 PMIf number 4 didn't exist I wouldn't even bother with Facebook. I want to keep up with the goings on of specific people not random losers from the past. There are some people that I really don't care to share my online life with. So I don't want them finding me at all.
Posted 12/11/2009 at 04:19:12 AMLook! It's comment section full of people whining about a list composed of whining. Geez, I think I'll check Facebook to see what my 48 friends are doing. Really, if you have 200+ "friends" you're lying to yourself. See, now I'm a whiner too, and fit right in
Posted 12/12/2009 at 01:23:09 PMFinding out friends are republicans is annoying. Doesn't happen much, but when it does...it's annoying.
Posted 12/12/2009 at 09:29:31 PMLike all aspects of life, it's easy to find the good, bad and funny on Facebook. Getting online does not make one cool
Posted 12/12/2009 at 11:02:30 PMFunny, used to be going on the internet WAS the thing to do, now the hipsters have made the internet an immature outlet, unless you're looking at their overly coded web page or on purpose clashing outfits. Social profiles, smart phones, sexting and online banking, welcome to the future, there's room for everyone, even my mother.
Posted 12/13/2009 at 05:38:01 AMHey dont hate on Farmville too much...Its not that bad.
I hate the News Feed vs. Live feed or whatever also...I think a lot of the changes they have made are unnecessary, but they are prob doing it to save bandwidth or server space or something...who knows.
Facebook servers seem to get slower everyday though.
Posted 12/13/2009 at 10:06:27 AMDamn you have huge neigh neighs...
Posted 12/13/2009 at 12:45:43 PMI like how you complained about partisan comments, and then ended with one. You're such a good example.
Posted 12/13/2009 at 01:19:44 PM#1 - boy, is that ever an understatement! How is it I suddenly have 'friends' who describe themselves as "very conservative?" (Don't answer that - the blame goes to ZYNGA.) Tip to gamers: avoid looking at the info section of the people you game with. One out of 400 is someone you'd actually want to have a conversation with.
Posted 12/13/2009 at 02:30:53 PMDamn you have huge neigh neighs....
Posted 12/14/2009 at 04:15:30 AMProud to be a conservative...and list it on my facebook page. Liberals just hate anyone that disagree with them --
Posted 12/14/2009 at 04:27:38 AMI don't like the reconnect thing! It always gives me a nerve when I opened facebook.com, as I wish certain people would never appear there.
Posted 01/04/2010 at 12:20:17 PM