Facebook is stupid.
I joined Facebook last year. Then I did nothing with it for 6 months. Who cares? Finally, I started to use it. Six months from then and this is what I have to say:
Facebook is stupid.
It takes all the social grace out of pretending to be someone’s friend. What the hell, people. I like to politely ignore people. Not flat out tell them no or act like I didn’t hear them when they point blank ask me to be their friend.
It just seems like adding all these friends in Facebook is like…unlubricated, bad sex.
It’s just mechanical and doesn’t anything and you only do it to up your numbers and not because it means a damn thing.
Here are some things I’ve noticed about Facebook:
1) Facebook enables you to skip your high school reunion. Because, let’s face it,…we all just want to see what people look like. So if you’re from my high school and you add me as a friend (because I won’t bother adding you because chances are I don’t even remember your name), then I’m going to add you back with a filter in which you will learn nothing about my life, I will see if you’ve gone fat or bald and then I will unfriend.
Oh yes. I will unfriend.
2) Facebook is the Passive Aggressive’s wet dream.
No one in their right mind would step into a room of their friends and say, “Some people haven’t learned how to say thank you for dinner.” Like, what the hell? Just tell the person you’re mad at and don’t post some lame ass status. Sheesh.
3) Facebook enables you to entangle your life and friends with someone you’re dating without ever buying furniture or a pet together. That shit used to be sacred.
4) You can tag pictures of just about anything with the names of your friends! Ha ha! And then their friends may see it and wonder wtf! For instance, how about these pictures to the left that I tagged at QTMama. Except, of course, these aren’t pictures of QTMama. They are just pictures of a perfectly innocent woman simply trying to get an even tan.
5) Sometimes, sometimes….Facebook is awesome. I reconnected with someone I’d wondered about for years and could not be happier to now have them as a true friend.
I’m fired up. What should I rant about next?
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Just a random attorney writing about daily life with Little Filthy, my rotten dog.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter…. they are all really kinda stupid. They are for the blogging impaired, a.k.a me. I’ve tried my hand at blogging and just done have what it takes to do it. But (Twitter) 140 characters or less…I got that. And FaceBook, well that is just Twitter in expanded form. Now don’t get me wrong I have both, and half the time I question why I do…but, alas, I do. Just like MySpace… it too will fade in time for me…..
July 15th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Haha, I use facebook and twitter (for my blog) and it’s funny but I keep using it despite knowing I also see a side of it that is just plain stupid!
I unfriend also. I’m not afraid.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:03 am
For the most part, I agree with you on the “Facebook is Stupid” thing. I joined a couple of years ago, and for a while there I was really into it, but right now I’m mostly just using it for playing online scrabble and messaging a precious few people. Other than that, I couldn’t really care less about it.
I think you’re spot on about it being a good way to skip the high school reunion, though. Is it wrong that I get a tiny sense of glee when I still who has gotten fat over the last 18 years or so?? heh
July 15th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Yeah how pleased was I that all of a sudden everyone on my friends list saw me as that weirdly tanned woman? Thanks for that Cookie! *grin*
July 15th, 2009 at 7:17 am
I’m guilty of being a Twitter user, too. heh.
Twitter is fairly political free but the weird things about Facebook just make me laugh. That said, it’s a tool I make use of and I’m not ashamed of that. But sometimes, I find myself finding the whole thing ridiculous.
@Sleepless – I wonder what the next thing will be when those things fade. Hard to imagine *more* interaction with people.
@Kez – Unfriender! heh.
@MommaSunshine – We’re bad people, aren’t we?
July 15th, 2009 at 7:38 am
I *heart* Facebook.
Please join my mafia.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Passive Aggressive’s wet dream. OMG. That is SO true.
I do know some people who use Facebook because they don’t blog. In other words, they change their status updates to reflect some portion of their lives and await comments… much like I do as a blogger. So, in that way, I guess I get it.
I’m guilty of using it too. Facebook, Twitter… all in the name of validation.
We’re all funny that way, aren’t we?
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Thank you- Under pressure from real friends on Facebook, I enrolled. I am besieged with requests from “Friends” I dont know, “poked” and invited to events I dont want to attend, and if I actually want to find someone, I am subjected to what they had for breakfast, what their farts smell like, who they are boinking, pictures they took of me at my last concert. All in an inane fashion. Talk about the dumbing down of humanity. I think I’ll take up letter writing again…
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Ps- Never Twitter either..
February 22nd, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Facebook is completely idiotic. I try to post intelligent, thought provoking links, ideas or whatever. Nothing. No responses whatsoever. I promise you, if I said, I just got back from taking a huge crap, I would receive more responses. People just want to talk about themselves and play that stupid FarmTown.
March 5th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
I thought i’m the only person who felt like this. Deleted my Facebook acc about a month ago( never liked it anyways),never been on twitter. I think it’s a total waste of time! To think that for some people Fb is the reason for their existence! Pathetic.. Then again the Masses are Asses. Period.
April 5th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
“It takes all the social grace out of pretending to be someone’s friend.” Ha ha ha!
April 12th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
FB is only good when u have your family and closest few people. The more people I had the more uncomfortable I felt. It is absolutely stupid..boring..and fake.. not to mention no privacy..i gave it three months total..im not a fake person so I just cannot be on there…i have to be real to my self…saved all emails that’s important to me and that’s it! No more of that immature crap.
July 20th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
I want to explain why Facebook is not stupid but I can’t stop giggling.
October 6th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
I hate Facebook!
November 13th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
No shit! Definitely a damn waste of time.
January 26th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
I agree. Facebook is very stupid, not to mention, very boring! I know alot of people who say that facebook is fun, or it’s their life, well, if facebook is your life, you need a life, now! Facebook is the most pointless, boring, and useless site ever! I hope someday it will just GO AWAY FOR GOOD! What is this site needed for ? Not connecting with people, people are anti social on this site, which is another reason why it’s pointless. I would prefer to call or text people, or even go see them in person, or email them, so why is a useless site like FB needed? It’s not!
May 10th, 2011 at 3:58 am
After watching “The Social Network” and seeing that Mark Zuckerberg wanted to put the whole college experience online and seeing as the point of college is for the education and experience, why are people wasting their college life saying it is better online catching up with people? What happened to calling people, simply emailing someone and sending photos through email or in the mail? What has happened to simple face to face talking. I know people who use Facebook like it ‘s their lifeline. I’m watching a YouTube video and my sister kicks me off to check her account to see if she was meeting someone later that day. I thought how stupid it was when she could text or call. Facebook has ruined life so much that I read that 20% of divorces in the UK were because people were using Facebook too much. Get a life people!
May 12th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Ok here is my creeper Facebook story. My best friend and I hung out with this group of 4-5 guys during our freshman year of college (2001), but after that I never really saw them again unless we randomly ran into them at a bar or something. Last year one of the guys sent me a friend request, and I didn’t even recognize who it was at first, but when I figured it out like 2 days later, I reluctantly accepted. Reluctantly because the guy always kind of creeped me out, but I always feel like I HAVE to accept if I even remotely know the person. So anyway later that same day, I changed my mind and decided I didn’t want this kid to know my life, so I unfriended. Within 15 mins, I had a nasty message from him about how I’ve always been a giant See You Next Tuesday, bitch, snob, etc. and he didn’t care if I unfriended him, he just wanted to see if I’d gotten fat. I never wrote him back, but then a few days later I got another message from him apologizing and asking if I could reconsider and accept a new friend request from him. Um, no thanks, psycho. Ever since then I’ve had my privacy settings on super strict – basically no one can write on my wall or see my pictures, which kind of defeats the point. And it also really sucks on your birthday when only like three people wish you happy birthday. Ha.