Facebook: The good. The bad. The ugly.
Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Will in Blog, Social Media, facebook
I remember getting the initial Facebook invite my Junior year in College, which would have been 2004. It came 2 weeks after a mass e-mail from my University for all students to logon to Faceboook and click “suggest a school”. Many people today don’t realize Facebook, at first, was very exclusive. They only allowed students from certain Universities to join and they were very selective about the next allowed student body. Today, every Tom, Dick, and Harry has an account, which to some is great, but to others its bad.
The Good:
It’s a great tool to keep in touch with classmates, old high school friends you haven’t seen in 20 years, and family members. Pictures, status updates, direst messages, wall posts, and birthday reminders all help you stay in contact and updated with friends.
The Bad:
Now that it’s open to the public every Tom, Dick, and Harry have an account. I get random requests from people who’ve never met me, have met me once at a networking event, and are 40 years older than me. I try to be polite and accept everyone, but my Facebook account has gone from college friends to a mix of business and pleasure. I don’t want to offend anyone, so I accept 97.8% of friend requests, unless it is a really far out request from a random creeper.
The Ugly:
Invite overload! No, I do not want to join your fan page for the 100th time. No offense, but I like to actually support the companies, groups, bands, and/or products that show up on my fan page listing. There is no need to ask me 10 times in a period of 4 weeks to join your group or business fan page.
6 Responses to “Facebook: The good. The bad. The ugly.”
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Chuck Gose
23. Feb, 2010
Another gripe to add to Facebook’s “ugly” side is commenting. God forbid you comment on something personally newsworthy for somebody, like an engagement, birth, etc.
You then receive notifications when everybody else comments on the update. There should be a way to turn this off so that I also don’t have to see every other Tom, Dick & Harry’s comments.
Will
23. Feb, 2010
Absolutely, I didn’t even think about that one. I hate when I get a string of e-mails because John and Betty broke up.
Greg
23. Feb, 2010
It’s also not worth leaving comments on a celebrity’s post. Not only do you get the aforementioned million notifications, but the commenters tend to leave unrelated comments and spam along the way.
Will – you forgot to mention your unbridled passion for FarmVille in “The Good” section!
Jason
23. Feb, 2010
I suffer from what Chuck’s talking about. I ‘like’ a status to tip my hat to a status or someone’s personal event and am then deluged by strangers’ mawkish drivle.
Maybe I should just stop ‘liking’ with so much abandon.
Steven Shattuck
23. Feb, 2010
Let’s not forget the games. YoVille, FarmVille, Pillow Fight, PetVille
Café World, Mafia Wars… “Betty has accepted a delicious drink using Drinks On Me!!!”
Chuck Gose
23. Feb, 2010
We’re all so negative.