Ten reasons I’m leaving…
1. Two years ago, I resisted Facebook like a yeast infection until I figured out I could play Scrabulous with Q for hours while watching the cubicle clock. Six months later, Scrabulous is wiped off the face of the Earth by a jealous Hasbro who owned the rights to your grandma’s scrabble board.
2. But I liked the reunion aspect of it until friends of friends of friends started sending me friend requests then getting all attitudinal when I ignored them. Why are you sending me a message calling me a bitch? It’s Facebook, for God’s sake. Go poke somebody else and be done with it.
3. The friend request in clear violation of that pesky restraining order I have against you? Irritating and a little bothersome.
4. Enough with the Farmville. I blocked my own daughter from my feed because of it.
5. Every time Facebook got jealous of Twitter and implemented major changes, it fucked with my privacy settings. For a few hours last month, it even made public the filters I’d installed to show different parts of my profile to different friends. That was not cool.
6. The hurt and wonder with each unfriending.
7. The fact that unfriending is now an acceptable use of the English language.
8. Everyone with a Google can find me right here, then stalk me on Twitter instead.
9. The bra color meme.
10. It’s bloated and dying, and only MySpace understands what’s happening.
Wow. I completely feel you on this, and I’m somewhat comforted by the fact that I’m not alone in my misgivings about Facebook. It’s too bad. The service clearly jumped the shark for me with the whole friend of a friend thing. I’ve been confronted by a teenage friend of my son who asked why I’ve ignored her requests to be her friend. And what the heck is Mafia Wars, and why would I care.
I wish I were as brave as you and could just cut the cord. As it is, I’ll just stop the updates from coming to my Blackberry and ignore my son’s friends when I see them in public.
I laughed aloud at your ignoring the kids when you actually see them in real life and not just on Facebook. You are bolder than I am, contradicting portions of your comment, haha. Welcome to my blog, Dr. Onyeije!