Is Facebook getting too complicated?

This has to be the best site on the Internet at the moment.

http://www.facebook-sucks.com

Gainsborough lad, this is a myth. Perhaps Facebook should charge though. I'd imagine a lot of people would find it a difficult habit to break and would fork out the cash.

I don't use facebook much at all, but a lot of my friends do, facebook has just anounced a £4-00 a month charge for it's users, (£48-00 a year)

If this goes ahead, slowly but surely friends re-united will make a comeback.

Yes get outside in the real world and meet real people its much more fun. I tried Facebook and the main reason for closing my account was the Powers that be logging everything you do and everyone you contact. But I saw no actual use for the site. its for the socially inept and makes them fel they have friends.

Has no one got anything better to do then waste time on facebook !!! Get a life for gods sake!

Towbar: here, here! You've now joined a new enlightened network of people who can see Facebook for the juvenile school playground that it is.

MikeP: sadly this is a new and growing phenomenon. Probably best to call it something like social network spam, for that is pretty much what it is. If you've ever used Twitter you'll know what I mean as it's much worse there.

I closed my Facebook account, which only had minimum data anyway. In fact you can't close it, you deactivate it, and they hang on to your information which appears to still be available to God knows who.

In the last few days I've had messages in my email, via Facebook, from 'friends' whom I've never heard of, rubbish in text language. I don't even dignify such cr@p with a reply.

The idea of Facebook is a good one. I have always felt this, but my reasons for thinking it have changed somewhat over the past couple of years.

Initially, it was a fantastic way to keep in touch with people and break the ice (I was just beginning a new Uni course at the time). Great - very useful. Once I started to get into it, I think I probably did what most Facebook users do and spent far too much time looking up old friends, old flames and checking out who they were friends with and befriending them.

Somehow, I thought that the more friends I made on Facebook the more enriched my life would be.

However, since the evolution of the Facebook interface and the increased functionality with the oh-so-annoying insertions of third-party plugins, I have suddendly realised that the most precious thing abou the newtorking site is that it is there as a constant and massivley irritating reminder of the reasons why we are no longer in touch with a lot of people.

I have now disabled most email alerts from my profile, so it's less of an issue, but recently I was getting twenty or thirty emails a day telling me that I had been invitied to join "Slap James in the Face Society" or to sponsor someone I haven't spoken to for twenty years to do a sponsored walk for their pet gerbil's hip replacement.

I now spend very little time on the website and have drawn a rather sweeping conclusion, well, two of them:

1. The number of friends (I use the term loosely) that you have on Facebook is inversely proportional to the number of friends (mates wouldbe amore acurate word) you have in real life. (I have lots of Facebook friends but revel in having a few close, real friends.)

2. Facebook has become a bloody waste of time. For everyone. For some, a waste of money too.

So, I suppose Facebook started off as a great idea but has outgrown its shoes as far as I'm concerned. Do away with all the accessories and break it down to the basics. That's what it's for.

Well I use facebook to comminicate with people online, fans who share an interest in my music or whetever. I don't play the games often, but it's nice to chat with someone who shares the same interest

I have to agree with most of the comments put on to this site, especially about get a life etc.

Why do I agree, because I wrote this gripe.

The only reason I tried to get on to facebook in the first place was to see some of the things a couple of my grandchildren were apparently (according to other people who had read it) said they had put on and which if true were quite disturbing to me. Before you accuse me of prying, I would consider it more of trying to be a responsible Grandparent. Just to give you an example of the stupity of this and other sites like it and the stupid things, (which in my opinion and I am entitled to my opinion) people put on them, this is what my youngest Grandchild put on hers this weekend, presumably as a joke, or at least I hope it was a joke, the words, " Home Alone this Weekend" now dont you think that might, just might, attract the wrong type of person, to find out where home is and ???? the thought doesnt bear thinking about. Luckily nothing happened but how stupid can you get, and yes we did tell her she was stupid to do it and so did her Mum and Sisters. Being old enough to look after yourself does not mean being able to cope with all situations that may arise.

Hope this explains my reason for writing this gripe in the first place. Couldn't agree more when someone put ' will be glad when this and all other sites like them vanish ', maybe the reason it was created in the first place was well meaning, but like all things created for humans, things tend to get out of hand.

"Don't forget, you can still keep up with your friends on Twater and Seabo."

Would that be My Placebo?

Don't forget, you can still keep up with your friends on Twater and Seabo