Top 10 Reasons Facebook is Evil
Sure, I use Facebook for networking and to keep in touch with friends. But sometimes the website gets so annoying that I just want to beat my head against a wall. Here’s why.
10. Applications
I have apps like everyone else, and some are fun. But some apps need to be destroyed forever.
How many times can a zombie bite me? How often will Pokey Puppy throw a bone at me? Will my friend hate me if I ignore her “best friends forever” request?
And by the way, would you really trust the Zombies app? “Brains… brains… …. BRAINS! Brains…” Yes, they’re eating my brain. Every time I get a zombie request, a neuron in my brain dies.
9. Gossip Girl
A girl’s status recently read: “Jane Doe is wondering why some of her women friends over 32 are not mature?!?!” Since she only had one woman friend over 32, it was easy to figure out who she was talking about. But this begs the question – if she had a problem with her friend, why didn’t she just tell her? Why whine about it in her status? With friends like that…
8. Piggy-Back Apps
One day, someone sent me a rum & coke on Facebook. Deciding this app would pass the “Dube Test,” I accepted it, only to find Rate My Friends loading on my Facebook! WHAT? I hate Rate My Friends! Sure enough, the rum & coke was a smokescreen to trick me into loading an app I hate. Sadly, there was no rum & coke for me that day. 
7. “Look at Me!” Syndrome
Unfortunately, when many adults sign into Facebook, they are bitten by the “junior high bug” and start acting like prepubescent teens.
There are plenty of examples… Take the grown man who included a “PayPal Donation” on his page. I don’t think he looked at the demographics of Facebook users first. Most of us aren’t wandering around with tons of extra cash just begging to be thrown wildly into cyberspace at individual people. And if we did have that kind of money, we’d be wasting it on these:
Girls, take note. If your boyfriend doesn’t give you a birthday gift, but he’s sending hundreds of these out to other girls, you might have a problem.
6. Stalkers
(Note: Picture from www.markmoore.terapad.com)
Unless your Facebook is set to be viewable by only your friends, someone is spying on you. Guaranteed. These pages are magnets for creeps who would rather watch you through the Internet than actually talk to you in person.
5. Relationship Hell
Whatever you do, never advertise your relationship on Facebook.
Adding “in a relationship with” is like putting up a billboard that reads, “Please! Hit on my boyfriend!” or “Hey guys! Stalk my girlfriend!” I’m not kidding. For some reason, twisted people see the “relationship status” as an invitation to break it as quickly as possible. Women and men alike flock to the “no longer available” with e-mails and wall posts (usually accompanied by photos that really belong in the back corner of a video store). Which brings me to…
4. Slutty Profile Pics
I’m sorry, but I really don’t want to see your naked picture on Facebook, even if you do think you’re God’s gift to men or heaven’s present to women. What’s even worse is when you go to the person’s profile page and it’s covered with Bible verses and quotes about how conservative they are. Sorry, but you’re not fooling anyone.
3. Are You Interested?!
Apps like these are out to make Facebook the single most annoying website in the history of the Internet. First of all, why on earth would anyone add that information on an Internet application? “We will keep track of who is crushing on you so you don’t have to!” Internet becomes Big Brother anyone?
But most importantly – isn’t this what we did in elementary school? I prefer men now, not boys who hide behind Facebook applications.
2. Unwanted Friends
Sure, I could make my page on Facebook unsearchable. But that kind of negates the point, doesn’t it? I like friends from elementary school or former work colleagues to be able to find me. But the cost of this is great. Every now and then, I receive a friend request from someone I really can’t stand.
Sometimes it’s a person I deleted before. Sometimes it’s a person who deleted me and now wants to be my friend again. Umm, you got rid of me. Why would I take you back? Worst of all are the times it’s a “friend” who just wants to spy on me for someone I deleted. I only have this to say to them:
1. Weapons of Mass Destruction
Far too many times, I’ve seen Facebook used by a disgruntled person as a weapon of mass destruction. Just check out the sad story about Megan Meier for a worst case scenario involving Facebook’s sibling, MySpace. A good friend of mine experienced this once too. After her “nice guy” dumped her, he took time to make fun of her “broken heart” online with his sleazy buddies. Oh, but wait! His profile still talked about what a lovely Christian man he was (rolling my eyes).
People: Facebook was not created to be your personal weapon of mass destruction. For another example, check out this lovely find:
This girl broke up with her boyfriend on Facebook. How mature. Now look at how nicely Facebook capitalized on it:
Oh-so-classy is the “broken heart” ad for a Facebook app on the left. Nice move, Facebook. Real nice.
March 17, 2008 at 12:52 am
Great post. What bugs me the most is that I often can’t use other people’s apps without adding it to my own profile first. For instance, I shouldn’t have to add an app just to see a list of books my friend wants to share with me.
March 17, 2008 at 1:50 am
I agree that those apps are very annoying!! Its really not aimed at the adults.. Well it doesn’t seem like it.
March 17, 2008 at 3:18 am
My FaceBook is private, simply because I don’t want freaks spying on me. I realize I’m probably missing out on some people I might like to reconnect with, but as you point out, I’m also missing out on people I never missed in the first place.
March 17, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Facebook, Myspace… they are all evil, yet I use them still!
March 17, 2008 at 1:23 pm
That was phenomenal. I know exactly what you mean. Although I have no problems with not adding certain people even when they make certain requests. The Apps! Oh, how I really loathe them, espeacially the ones that make you send out a certain amount of invitations in order to see “what kind of person” you are. Those are supposed to be funny yet they become annoying to the point you just want to ignore every invitation you get. What if the app is in Spanish and none of your friends speak Spanish, now you’re forced to bombard people with something they can’t even read! However, I do love the Speed Racing App and can’t help invite more people to race. Ohhhhh … with facebook as well as myspace one needs to be very careful.
March 17, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Everyone says they are evil and yet still has the accounts.
I deleted mine and haven’t looked back since, I have better things to do with my life.
I go out and meet REAL people instead of seeing everything and going in armed with information, now I have to talk to them and figure out their real personality.
March 17, 2008 at 11:50 pm
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March 17, 2008 at 11:53 pm
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March 18, 2008 at 3:35 am
Thanks everyone for your comments! It’s fun to read other people’s experiences with this website.
March 18, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Slutty Profile Pics are annoying – it’s even worse when they are on a 13 year old’s profile page!
It’s really annoying when I visit my personal friends profile page and the stuff they write on their profiles is so obviously fake. Like my fat lazy friend letting everyone know about her gym membership, which is a complete joke unfortunately. Or another friend who has the dirtiest house I’ve ever seen writes about her weekend spent cleaning her house and how she’s such a germaphobe. Its like some people live out their fantasy life on myspace/facebook and portray themselves as somebody they aren’t. Its sad actually.
July 16, 2009 at 12:26 am
Thats so true i mean come on people b yourself instead of pretending. it just starts a bunch of problems for you.
March 26, 2008 at 3:36 am
And this is (part of) the reason why I am no longer on MySpace and still waffle on Facebook….
(hiya!)
March 27, 2008 at 1:12 am
My daughter and her friends at a private school near Buffalo NY were bitching on a facebook wall about 2 classmates and one’s older sister who was “facebook creeping” them. Big Sis printed up the remarks, Mommy took them to school and my girl got 3 days In School Suspension. When we requested a conference to discuss this first we were blown off. From Monday to thursday they refused to meet but on Thurs afternoon my wife insisted. We lasted 20 minutes before they told us Claire was expelled and they called the cops on us !!! It’s all at this site : Justice4claire.com
March 28, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Elfino – I agree. Avoiding spies is always a good idea!
Kara – Isn’t it crazy how people try to pretend to be something they’re not? I wonder why, when their friends should know better anyway?
Sean – I’m really really sorry about what your daughter has gone through. That is absolutely terrible!
March 29, 2008 at 9:03 pm
haha, You can dissable applications, but the only choice facebook gives you is to dissable all applications or manually block the ones you dont want. Personally I think this is a horrible way to go about things. I wish they would just let us never get app invites but still be able to use ones we choose.
I wrote a simple article about myspace users that would almost work the same on facebook:
http://iamkraze.com/archives/2008/03/10-things-i-hate-about-myspace-users
March 30, 2008 at 1:17 am
Thanks 4 the thoughts, we are seriously pissing them off though since they removed all of their email addys from their school website and had their lawyer call ours again the other day saying we are harassing them and implying a lawsuit against us if our supporters don’t stop emailing them to complain!!!! WTF
August 29, 2008 at 8:50 am
Facebook is not evil, people are evil. Facebook, myspace or whatever else, is just means to an end. People decide the end and use the means. If one would want to hurt their friends or ex they can well find all sorts of means to do so, including facebook.
I can sympathise with the fact that a vast database has been created, holding personal information on whoever joins it. That IS evil, yet again means to an end.
Everything posted is information. Information can be used for or against people. Information itself is not evil, the way it is used has the potential to be evil.
It is true that the internet has made things easier. The flow of information is much larger than it used to be and more easily accessible. THE POINT IS HOW THAT INFORMATION IS USED.
August 29, 2008 at 2:22 pm
What exactly is your point? Is it that you trust facebook owners not to use the information you provide to them (and which is henceforth theirs, their own, their precious, to do with as they please) in evil ways? If so you are waaaaay too trusting (they even hint at evil use of the info in their privacy policy text). If not, then well, facebook is evil. The ‘guns dont kill people, people (or bulltets) kill people’ logic you use cannot be applied anywhere. If something will most surely be used for evil purposes then it too is evil. For example i dont think you would claim chemical weapons are not evil because the people who push the little red button are evil. If given the power i think you would destroy all chemical weapons in the world. Why? Well…because chemical weapons are evil.
August 29, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Always this bullshit about facebook & myspace… If you don’t want people to see it, then don’t put yourself on the internet… if you want to make friends, go out ! Doing it to meet old friends ? Maybe, but chances are bigger that there’s a reason why they haven’t been looking for you or the other way around… maybe because they or you couldn’t even care before having a profile on one of these pages??? Same thing with everybody nagging about spam… Don’t want it? Don’t read it ! simple as that ! Internet is a tool, just like a library, take information and/or give information. Nothing more, nothing less!
September 1, 2008 at 7:43 am
I think it’s one of the biggest time wasters ever created. I suspect that the people that get ahead in this life are the ones spending less time on facebook and more time doing things in real life. And those people are probably the people who created facebook.
September 19, 2008 at 6:38 am
I completely agree with you on all counts.
Wow. That’s something I can hardly even say to *myself* most of the time…
February 18, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I hate facebook, myspace not so much but still dislike it.
These are sites designed for idiots, used by idiots and continue to grow in popularity because of idiots.
Idiots rule I guess.
February 24, 2009 at 12:48 am
Hilarious. I’ve encountered lots of girls who claim to be “very conservative” on their profile but they have tons of pics of them with their boobs hanging out of their shirts or claiming how they love sex even though they’ve never been engaged or married. There are some of these so called “extremely religious” girls who claim to love family values but they have all this ridiculous quotes saying how they love to make fun of “ugly” people as a hobby. Hypocritical no? The worst ones are those who get on a high horse, push morality on other people, and judge them even though they also do things that are considered to be sinful in their religion. Of course, there are also the idiot former Greek system members with no life who become “legacy parents,” have the organization’s name splashed everywhere on their facebook page, and want their kids to join the same sorority/fraternity as they did. Not only that, they subscribe to the organization’s membership magazine, buy their overpriced chintzy memorabilia, go to their events, etc.
February 27, 2009 at 12:49 am
The more popular it becomes, the more my dislike for facebook grows. I’m really glad I got out, and I’m encouraging everyone to do the same. What would happen if everyone woke up one day and deleted their facebook accounts? Less poking, that’s for sure. And that by itself would make for a better world.
http://mollyschoemann.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/why-i-left-facebook/
April 3, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Facebook is a bunch of crap. Stay away from it. Get a life and do other things. Connect with people from the past via reunions. Meet people, face to face. Talk to people. Do you speak to the 250 ‘friends’ listed on facebook? I seriously doubt it.
June 22, 2009 at 11:28 pm
the majority of facebook users really do need to get a real life. Who gives a flying f**k is someone has a headache or is about to leave to go pick up their kids from school. Why do I need to know this? Honestly, it’s absolutely ridiculous!
June 24, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Facebook is growing ever more evil!
If you follow any link that a friend posts, that link goes through Facebook’s system and so your web browsing is tracked and remembered by Facebook. This is a typical Microsoft trick, so it is not surprising since Microsoft now is part owner of Facebook.
Even more sinister is their oh-so-kind offer to search out your friends by using your email account. Just give over your email password please! Don’t fall for that one!
July 6, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Use Myspace regularly for music and art promotion, decided to try out Facebook to see if they had more expansive tools. Not so much, but definitely had more sociopaths. There’s something wrong with a system that enables so many grown ass men and women to fawn and chortle like they were back in high school. Then again, so many never really left, no? I guess the same could be said about Myspace but I really don’t get into all that. Strictly promotion. Hmm. Maybe that’s why I have so few friends. . .
The moral of my story is that its all about the individual using it, or something.
July 18, 2009 at 6:08 am
You forgot a big one: It’s a huge waste of time.
August 19, 2009 at 1:55 am
it sure is
July 27, 2009 at 6:14 am
I really enjoy facebook. In a few months I’ll see if I can do that, and still have a life. Right now, it’s not interfering at all. I really hate the apps though. Well I love some and hate some. But a few bad apps spoiled the whole lot for me, so now I just post my facebook updates and read those of my network. I love it as a way to keep in touch, but i have a feeling that the apps are, among other things, tools to do market research. Not that doing market research is evil, but I do know that if you want to pay the pros to do it, each market research project costs tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to complete. So I’m jealous of the brilliance I think.
August 6, 2009 at 9:19 am
Reasons why FB is the lame.
- too much commitment. who in their right mind needs to ‘update their status’. things are not so hectic that you need to tell everyone where you are or what you’re doing.
- creepy. see bullet one.
- no more reasons needed. i’m in IT, so i knows a thing or two about technolojee. bottom line – facebook is just plain weird. i no likey.
August 7, 2009 at 4:22 am
PROTIP:
If you still have a Facebook account, you don’t grasp what is evil about Facebook.
August 19, 2009 at 1:54 am
i love tht post but wat did u mean by ZOmbie apps and my brain neur….something dying?? plz tell me!!!
August 20, 2009 at 10:10 am
So what if you are private. I’ll bet 9 times out of 10, private people have the ‘view friends’ link enabled. Why does someone who wants to be private want all their friends visible to strangers? Oh and if you have any friends who are public, bye bye privacy. Any interaction between a private profile with a public one is all viewable by anyone (in the same network) on the public persons profile.
September 8, 2009 at 6:39 pm
All I would like to say is, keep your myspace account to promote your songs (if you are a band) and let facebook for your close friends but even better, set up a blog or a personal page.
Personaly I do not like fb. It started as a noble idea to find friends within your social circle but it has mixed up and finally messed up as some trolls, idiots etc create accounts. The only reason I use it is just that I found some old friends that I had lost contact with them. Otherwise it would be useless for me.
Myspace is good if you are an artist. However you may notice a lot of junk as well even there but it is nothing ccomparing to what you can find in youtube.
I don’t like bashing fb. It is not the company’s fault if some users are idiots, however the company should try to protect the privacy. You may say freedom of speech blah blah blah untill you will notice some racist, misanthropic, hate groups. Freedom of speech is very important but some people should not be allowed to spread malevolence and stupidity onlie. Same as in daily life.
And well said abt the aps. Most of them are junk.
September 16, 2009 at 12:59 am
I feel the same way too. Its like fbk and hi5 are jus online databases that ppl keep tab of ur life… im on both but im not hooked and the only reason im on is to stay in contact wit some old overseas frenz.
October 8, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Facebook is destroying the social realm of human interactions. It takes reality away and just is pure evil.
October 14, 2009 at 6:38 am
Louis I couldn’t agree with you more man. It also enables people to hide behind a screen instead of dealing with any interpersonal issues. Conflict resolution is seen as hard work since it’s as easy as “delete friend”. Also I find that FB helps promote covert aggression with people who have a difficult time expressing how they truly feel. Hmmm
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November 10, 2009 at 10:28 am
A COUPLE MORE REASONS
Facebook and apps can be used to mine not only private data but also feelings and generate data from that. All the emotions its users expressed are their property. They could potentially measure the worlds happiness.
Facebook and Myspace are combining. Can we say PRE-MONOPOLY.
People will implant a facebook chip because it was sent to them by a friend. A they will trust it. Mark of the beast
People stop going outside and end up fat and alone.
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