Friendster, MySpace, Facebook... never caught my attention.
I signed up for Friendster long time ago out of curiousity, but I've never used it since. I signed up for Facebook not long ago after an invitation, but I barely used it anyway.
Let's see... Facebook is WAY too complicated. Actually... complicated is not the right word. It's more like... tedious. The interface is clunky, you are fed with too much unnecessary information, 99% of the games and applications are pointless...
The first day I signed up, it look like it's going to be good. But I lost interest after using it for 30 minutes. First, every single thing any of your friend do will be fed as news to you. Then, you got like 1 million requests for you to install stupid "plugins" to your page, which just serve to clutter your main page. Look at how many stupid requests I've got after 1 month.
Sorry, but I got sick of handling these crap. It's more like a chore than something fun. It's like having to go through spam when you're reading emails.
Yes. SPAM. All these applications are FREAKING USELESS. What's the point of having those things that poke your friends? The first time I received it, I was like... WTF?!
Then there are those werewolves invitations, vampire invitations, zodiac invitations, even "dim sum" invitations.
Oh Yeah~~ those are some REAL USEFUL shit.
I'm sorry but I've never bothered to even look through those. I think it's a total waste of time. I mean... tell me seriously, what's the point to poke your friend? or tickle him? or whatever?
Everytime I login, I got to handle numerous requests, and see one whole page of feed that shows who I've been poked by, and who just break his own high score in which game. Or worse, who has install what application.
Do I look like I frigging care? -_-
You don't even have much control over what news get feed to you. Yes, there's some sort of sliders but it's vague and you can't have precise control. I have no idea how Facebook got as big as it did. It is just a fad. Yes, it does have some potential and neat ideas, but it's way too cluttered and complex.
I have once sat down and said, "Okay, let me use an hour or two to customize my Facebook"...
But I gave up.
It's something you have to put in effort everyday to keep it up to date (there's like ten thousand new applications released everyday). Oh, that 'request' screenshot I posted above? I've only got less than 10 friends in my profile and that's what I got. I cannot imagine what kind of nightmare I will have if I add like 100 friends. It's like subscribing to 100 spamming websites.
The main problem I have is that there is way too much going on. It is impossible to review them all. Your friend invite you to play this game with him, oh gotta play this IQ quiz with that guy, gotta join the vampire club, gotta return a tickle to her... gotta gotta gotta.
Bottom line: Facebook Sucks. You can find more reasons here.
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