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Oh, Facebook. Who would have thought that a small project started by a Harvard student to distract himself from thinking about a girl would have evolved into the world's largest social networking site, recently cracking 200 million members? We've been with the site since the early days, but we'll admit to feeling some considerable Facebook fatigue recently. As Facebook has grown, its influence has crept into our lives in increasingly exhausting and, frankly, annoying ways (Don't even get us started on what it's done to our offline relationships; just how do you explain to someone in person why you've 'de-friended' them, anyway?). We've just about had enough, which is why we're all on the verge of quitting Facebook altogether. You too? Maybe you'll relate to some of our 15 reasons.
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Subscribe to commentsgeorge9448Apr 16th 2009 2:16PM
Obviously don't put up anything you'd regret,right?I find Facebook sooo much better than Myspace-I've been able to reconnect with lost cousins,former soldiers I served with in the military more than 20 years ago, and former co-workers from my job.Granted, you cannot decorate it like myspace, but who cares?It's so much better for it's networking aspects.
KovyaMay 16th 2011 5:48PM
@george9448: www.sitetalk.com/kovya - New alternative to FB. It's about Site Talk - new online global community. It works, it worths!
KtApr 16th 2009 2:26PM
When I did have facebook I had everything blocked, but they forwarded a message to me that I could have lived totally without. So I cancelled the account
ear2009Apr 16th 2009 2:33PM
I've noticed lately that aol post a lot of negative artiles about facebook. What gives?
daisygarden2Apr 16th 2009 11:55PM
Why the continual push to leave Facebook?
Someone have a grudge against Facebook?
Ok quit the attack
eyedproMay 27th 2009 4:25PM
Don't know why facebook is getting the beating - all social networking sites eventually prompt us to question what we are doing here in the first place, who cares about this drivel, etc. Life was more fun before computers IMHO.
dennisfortladedalJun 12th 2009 4:34PM
It's because AOL is trying to promote their sorry social network, Bebo.
liaApr 16th 2009 2:45PM
AOL really hates facebook, eh? All i ever see on AOL are articles trashing facebook. Seriously.
swimtedswimApr 16th 2009 2:39PM
funny thing is. i bet that chick and every guy she has ever dated has a facebook now :p
emilyApr 16th 2009 2:43PM
what i want to know is...why are people complaining about just facebook when myspace is doing the same stuff???
HubertApr 16th 2009 2:45PM
See the name Hubert? That's my real name. That's my computer name.
I have about 5 false first and last names. I get phone calls and they ask to speak to so and so, and I say no, he doesn't live here.
I get mail addressed to my false name. I throw it in the trash.
All my real friends know my real name.
My wife has false names. We send notes to one another. We use code words.
When Bush was president you never know what he was going to do.
Didn't trust him. A group of us made up code words and names.
Some time we would misspell a word on purpose. That was a certain code. If you are goingto talk on a cell phone or send e mail be careful.Don't give out any important info.
TerriMay 5th 2009 4:12AM
why all the names???????
Bruce PottMay 11th 2009 9:41AM
Wow! Paranoia reigns. What makes you think that anything you talk about online or by voice would have any interest at all to our government. Get A Life
SpencerMay 27th 2009 2:40PM
That's right Hubert, just because your paranoid, doesn't mean their not out to get you!! See you in the shadows :)
gabby321May 29th 2009 12:30AM
bush rocks
amsn12085Apr 16th 2009 3:23PM
If you stupid enough to accept on the people you know are going to make you look bad the you deserve it. Anyone complaining about this stupid stuff just has no life and needs to shut up. Its not worth complaining about.
chuckApr 16th 2009 3:44PM
this is started by people to bring it down...twitter, myspace, ect. they pay millions to have aol write this crap.
gdMay 27th 2009 2:30PM
what color is the sky in your world?
RandyApr 16th 2009 3:45PM
I was in a very happy relationship when my partner discovered facebook. I was not invited as a friend and it was kept secret from me. By the time I found out about that facebook life , two weeks into it, there were 82 friends and still no invite to me.I had felt major changes for that two weeks not having a clue why and upon asking not getting honest answers. I felt that facebook faceslap. On the third week of that new facebook life i was asked to not return. That was an in person 3 year freindship destroyed by a shallow 82 friend facebook discovery. The final breakup was, in good shallow facebook form, communicated to me by text. There is a whole shallow side to text/online friendships and sites like facebook that brings out the shallow side of the best of folks when they are not sharp enough to see through some stuff. Very sad really. I will never allow myself to get close enough to be hurt in person that bad over stuff decided over computer airwaves and the typed word. In person friends and communication is old fashioned and retains some lost ethics of the human race. My friend was asked a quistion of our friendship in 5 years. Seems I was the only not confused one in the frindship having no doubt of enjoying the rest of our lives together. I wonder where folks see facebook in 5 years?
ChyanneMay 28th 2009 8:14AM
WELL, I THINK ALL OF YOU, INCLUDING YOU RANDY, NEED TO GET A LIFE AWAY FROM YOUR COMPUTERS. ACTUALLY WHY DO YOU NEED A MACHINE TO MEET PEOPLE IN THE FIRST PLACE? EVER HEARD OF GYM, OR PARKS, STOP SITTING IN FRONT OF YOUR COMPUTER ALL DAY LIKE IT'S YOUR BEST FRIEND. WHEN IT GETS A VIRUS , WHO YA GONNA TALK TO?
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