Facebook: The Cons

I used to have a personal rule not to get myself into social networking sites. I really value my privacy and nothing sucks more than having nosy people poking into your affairs and wanting to know what you're doing or what you look like. After much coercing and convincing however, I decided to give Facebook a try just to see what it's like and how it'll go. It also kinda sucks to hear people around me talking about it all the time without having the slightest idea what they're talking about. 'Course it didn't turn out to be so bad, with the added bonus of being able to reconnect with some really old friends. There are just some things that I come to not like and here they are:

No "dislike" button. If your puppy died, I would want to console you. But sometimes, I'm so busy with stuff I'd really rather prefer to just click one button to get my feelings across. Unfortunately, the only button that exists is the 'like' one. And of course, there's no way I'm gonna tell you that I like it that your poor googie died.

There are other reasons why I also want to click 'dislike'. You post a pic of yourself naked? Dislike. You keep joining groups with silly names like "I love Twilight"? Dislike. You're bragging about something? Dislike. Your mom married Brad Pitt? Superdislike. But as a friend pointed out, having a 'dislike' button could probably just result in World War III. There's no way that thing won't get abused.

Game progressions are slow. Seriously, why are they? I guess coming from the viewpoint of a real-time gamer who is so used to seeing things happen within minutes, it does feel weird that to finish an objective, it has to take hours! Hours fer cryin out loud!

But then again, games in Facebook are not meant to be played like other full-time games. It is a social networking website after all and games are just supposed to be diversions. Unfortunately for me, I really didn't join Facebook mainly to socialize. I joined it because I also wanted to play the games.

And I also don't want to adopt the lonely brown cow.

Privacy settings? What privacy settings? Isn't it annoying how you have to adjust so many options just to get the privacy setting you want? I mean, ok sure, people want to set different settings for themselves but why couldn't it be simpler? If someone by negligence forgets to adjust his settings, all another person needs to do is search his name and practically all information about him would be known.

Won't it suck when your mom and her poker friends know everything going on in your life?

Them stupid unreliable quizzes. I know they're for fun. But somehow people believe them. It gets even more annoying if people keeps posting the results on the general wall. Why would I want to know those? Also, why keep posting your horoscope or fortune cookie for the day? That big news will change the world, that will.

But it's good to know that you're a Leo.

Your Facebook friends =/= your real life friends. This is a given. Some people connect with others because they simply want to get in touch, not because they want to be your friend for better or for worse. But if I'm talking to you, talk back! *sigh* Is it really that hard to type?

Also, it would've been nice if you didn't invite me so you could have more friends to add to your game/quiz list. Or just to simply have a bigger list of friends. I'm a person too, not just a name that you know.

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Despite how bitter I might sound, I don't hate Facebook. But it's easier to talk about the few things you don't like about it than the many things you do.

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