I don't know why I hate Facebook, I just do. People want to put intimate details of their lives on display, under the guise of "quotes they found online". It's a deeply personal yet distant portrait of someone's life. Maybe what bugs me is that we're all expected to be on. We have to collaborate on Facebook because it's "easier". Company's use Facebook for advertising and promotion because it's "easier" than utilising an actual PR and Media department.
I think the question that annoys me most is, "are you on Facebook?". My phone is next to me, all the time. Use that. People contact you on Facebook, and if you don't check to see if someone contacted you, it's your fault. "I posted on your wall, you should have checked". Unless of course you put your notifications on, then you get an email. You get an email every time someone mentions you. Every mundane, lacklustre, obscure topic that someone thinks you're interested in, is emailed to you, leaving you to filter through the crap in your inbox.
The privacy issues are of no concern to me. If you post intimate details of your life on the Internet, you deserve what happens to you. It's the Internet. Facebook isn't this separate entity, bound by it's own laws of privacy or security. It's. The. Internet. I've heard people use that phrase before "don't post anything on Facebook you wouldn't want on a billboard". To some people, that warning has no significance. I would happily post any of my opinions on billboard, next to my face, middle finger raised.
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