I have decided to invoke my first amendment right to bitch, and bitch I shall. As you may or may not know Facebook keeps changing its formats, adding stuff that is useless and taking away stuff that is priceless. However not all is bad in the land of Facebook, for there is still the game sections such as attack and scramble, which I have thoroughly enjoyed. The only downside to the stuff that they do have on there is once you like a certain application they reel you in into buying the “platinum” memberships, which is nice if you have money to waste, however since I am a college student, anything of monetary nature is hard to come by these days.
Facebook has also brought about the mentality of its users that if its not on there its not true. For example if you are in a relationship with someone on Facebook people will assume it is true in real life. It’s the same way with friends on there as well. “If you’re not my friend on facebook then you’re not my friend in real life”, which most people should know is a load of bull, because of the 200 + friends we have on there we only talk to about 30-50 percent, 20-30 percent we see in our daily lives, and about 5 percent and less we only really know. (Mind you this is all speculation on my part and with my experiences and results may vary).
Lastly (for now) if Facebook was intended for college students, then why are high schoolers faking their age to get on? Also on that note, why is it old folks deem it necessary to do the same (without tampering with the age part), and then proceed to friend their kids. Let me say this to those of you who are parents who have done this or are planning to do this: DON”T FRIEND YOUR OWN KIDS!!!! I say this because your kids are at a stage in their life where they need Independence from you. Let them have their privacy, cause the last thing they need is to have a picture of them drinking a beer and a comment from you saying that they are grounded or something like that. However if they friend you it’s a totally different story. It shows that they trust you enough to let you in on their lives on-line, so congratulations your kids are extremely sheltered or depraved or something to that extent. I guess it would be kind of ironic if the parent invited the kid onto facebook. Well anyways…
More complaining to come.
