I am on facebook but have stopped using it as I prefer talking to my real friends face to face. I don’t care about the stuff facebook seems to think I want to know. I don’t care that my ex-housemate has got a new sofa!!

The thing I find most annoying about facebook though is the photos. I know what they look like! I don’t need to see several hundred photos of them drunk, doing something twatish or both!

I also know that one of my real friends wouldn’t talk to half of the people she has as her facebook friends in real life.

I got asked by a colleague at work if im on it, honestly i nearly let rip on the person. People in their mid twenties shouldnt be on FB. Whats happened to having actual conversations in person, or just disappering whenever you feel like it and just get on with your own interests.

Its as mark says, its a stalkers paradise no doubt, and besides there’s a reason why i dont speak to some people anymore so why would i want them knowing what im upto now.

To summarise

Facebook, i hope you die, and die quickly. Im sure theres more people out there who agree. Come on dont be shy.

The funny thing is, I can guarantee all these people who are on it will deny that they were even on it, once its unfashionable. I wonder what next years fad will be…

Friends go when you die like your possessions. Becoming to attached only leads to misery; and a fat check to the facebook cronies……..LOL

I would rather carve myspace out in the real world…..(pun intended)

WE GOT LIFEEEEEEEEEEEE!

REAL LIFE.

NOT ON THE INTERNET!

GEEEz.

1. I have the number/email of all my close friends, so I don’t need to go through a third party website to contact them, or arrange to go for a beer etc. Call me strange, but I still actually quite like to speak to my friends to arrange things every now and again.

2. I don’t need the ego stroke of having 100+ friends of whom I only really speak to five with any regularity.

3. I simply do not want every facet of my life put online for god knows who to read about at their leisure.

4. I also don’t want to willingly hand over all my personal information and habits to this big database they are building, who knows what it will be used for in the future.

I really think there is something very dark about facebook hidden beneath the bright and colourful façade of a ‘fun, social networking utopia’. It has been marketed as a more ‘adult’ service, and actually tries to make people think they are being semi-sophisticated simply by using it, only a couple of days ago I heard some demographics on the radio that facebook users are generally ‘white, middle class with well paid jobs’…. Well quick, I’d better get using it before I get left behind or heaven forbid considered ‘common’ by my peers.

It strikes me that facebook is open to all sorts of abuse, surely it’s a stalkers paradise? Or for people who enjoy a bit of ID theft. As well as opening the door for a huge amount of potential social engineering abuse that would just not have been possible with such enormous ease in years gone by. People just seem ever so keen to divulge everything online, I’m not sure if people realise how easily they can be tracked down from the information they put online or not, I’ve certainly got nothing to hide but that doesn’t mean I want to provide anybody with so much as a passing interest in me the ability to learn all about me with such ease.

From reading some of the comments above I can totally appreciate how facebook can destroy relationships, and loose people their jobs - there are a LOT of people on the prowl. Am I simply old fashioned and no longer down with the kids..? I don’t know but I really hope that the facebook bubble bursts and soon.

I’m in my twenties, think the internet is fantastic, use it every day for work as well as in my social time, but I simply can not understand the fascination with facebook. I’m not even completely comfortable posting this and adding to the oxygen of publicity that facebook is enjoying.

Facebook, I hate you (and I’m no longer alone, yay!).

Did that and saw my mates profile. Now apparently she’s got 230 odd friends, which i find very hard to believe. Surely how does she keep in touch with them all. What i dont understand is that my mates have my number and email so they contact me on them as opposed to this god forsaken website known as facebook.

Ive got to agree with tony though, i think its some governement conspiracy to basically control our lives (just like continuous building of stupid 1-bedroom flats in city centres, so they can keep an eye on us by CCTV, but thats another theory), but then again i thought of these whilst at work, and most probably bored.