i hate facebook. hate it. i have one because of all people MY DAD guilted me into it. you know, so i can “keep in touch with the family”. but i never use it. simply put, i hate facebook for the following reasons:
1. no, i don’t want to take your pointless quiz about how well i know you, or know melrose place, or know american history…
2. no, i don’t want to find out what action movie i am- or vegetable- or whatever…
3. if i haven’t spoken to you since high school, it probably means that i don’t care anymore.
4. i really don’t care what you’re writing on your wall, or furthermore, what everyone you know has to say about it.
sure i understand the value of social networking, and as a blog or a business or a product to have a “following”, and a way to communicate to that following… but conning people into following you by giving them something free or giving them a chance to win, or asking everyone to be friends and hoping some say yes just seems so hollow. i want people to read my blog and join my twitter because they like what i have to say- not because they’re trolling for freebies. also, i don’t need one more thing to update!!
sorry for the word vomit, i am just feeling a little overwhelmed by this lemmingesque shift to facebook flogging that all the big companies seem to have. (international delight AND stacy’s pita chips alone in the last 24ish hours!) i have no problem joining email lists, visiting websites, entering sweepstakes… it’s not about giving out my information. but i can barely force myself to talk to people i actually know on facebook- let alone having a whole bunch of crappy companies posting bullshit on their walls/my wall that i then have to hear about. it feels like an invasion to me somehow, and i just won’t do it. my facebook is mine (for better or worse), and is reserved only for people that i actually know- now matter how sexy the coupons and freebies and sweepstakes might be.
broke 207 
What you said.
thank you! i’m hoping that the social networking obsession will even out over time… but it might take a while. the american obsession with telling everyone what you’re doing all the time seems annoying enough to have staying power. (although i guess i’m just as bad as the rest with my incessant blogging… *shame*).
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