I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I think Facebook can be a great tool, but can also be a dangerous tool. There are times when I’m thankful for Facebook and there are other times that I consider shutting my account down.
Today, I’ll share the reasons why I hate Facebook, and tomorrow, I’ll give you the reasons why I love Facebook.
Reason #1 – It’s stalking at it’s finest!
We live in a voyeuristic society that likes to know about people for all the wrong reasons. When we want to know because we care about people, that’s great. But when we care to just know about people, it’s not so healthy. It’s a modern day version of peeking in someone’s windows only we have opened the blinds wide open for everyone to see in.
Reason #2 – It’s a HUGE time waster.
Just a quick look at Facebook can quickly turn into 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours. Wow…where did the time go?
The World Wide Web is appropriately named. It is a web that is so easy to get tangled up in and sometimes hard to get out of.
Reason #3 – It’s become more about applications and less about connections.
It started out as a great way to connect with friends, and it’s turned into a cluttered mess of applications. It reminds me of MTV. You’re hard pressed to hear music or see music videos on MTV anymore. And Facebook is becoming more about Applications than it is about connections with people.
I don’t really care which Disney character you are most like, or what kind of lover you are, or what movie star you are most like. But, I do want to know how you are really doing. What’s going on in our life…I truly want to know. I joined Facebook for connections and relationships not applications.
What about you? What do you hate about Facebook?
