Who Here HATES Facebook?

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I dislike Facebook and I don't own a account.

I hate it!
The only reason why I have a FB account is because my step-sister nagged me to get one. It just feels weird talking to people I haven't seen since high school. Also, I'm lazy and find it annoying to always have to tell other people what I'm doing all the time. But if I don't blog every single aspect of my life, my FB friends will worry about me. It doesn't help that I recently got into an argument with my step-mother via FB messaging. We never got along, which is why I never want to talk to her (which was another reason why I wanted to avoid FB). Every talk ends in a stupid fight. Luckily FB gives you the option of blocking other people.
I used to like Zooville and I would play it all the time, but now it seems more like a chore & less like a game.

I had a reverse experience. I liked Facebook so much because it took social relationships and gave them a sense of order. I probably leaned on it too much as a replacement for actual relationships. But yeah, over time, I did start to get bothered by the fact that all of my profile pictures are of me, alone. It looks narcissistic. But it's called Facebook … I never wanted to have a profile picture other than my face. And when two people are in it, how can you tell them apart? Ugh.

I was heavily involved in politics in college, so most of my Facebook friends' discussions revolve around that. It's been a way to find people who share my interest. I was lucky to have that. I've also been reassured to find out that some prominent political philosophers in history also had Asperger's.

I don't hate it, but i cannot see any point with it.

There are plenty of sites that do the same thing and i cannot understand the whole spectacle as to why people are drawn to it. But then again, i cannot understand why flies are drawn to animal droppings either so it does not bother me much.

I don't have FB, so I don't care so much... But I hate when people/companies upload their photos and I can't see them, because I don't have an account

I really don't mind that I don't have a wild social life - when I see what people on Facebook get up to, my thought is more wonderment that it's possible for some people to enjoy such things and not get totally exhausted! I actually find Facebook really useful for keeping in touch with the other students on my college course - because I'm often out of the social loop, I miss things that are going on which people discuss in conversation, but if I look on Facebook, I see what is going on and I don't feel so out of it. It's also really useful for getting to know the people in my life better, as I find it easier to get to know people online than in person.

What I find a bit disconcerting on Facebook, though, is the mix of people that I know in different contexts, all together in the same place. I find I have different ways of interacting with different groups of people - they each see different aspects of me - so I never know quite how to interact on Facebook. As a result I don't update my status a lot. I realise that things that one group of people find funny might well offend or confuse another group of people.

I like Facebook because it allows me to cyberstalk people I used to know (although how exactly that would benefit me is anyone's guess). I also like Facebook because it has made me realized that the average person's idea of friendship is very different from mine. Whereas a lot of people seem to think that a friend is someone who you once knew and got along with and would like to re-know again (except that you just don't have the time to personally call him/her or visit him/her), to me a friend is someone you wouldn't have lost contact with in the first place.

I don't think most people really see all the people they add on Facebook as 'friends' - that is just the word that Facebook uses for anyone you want to add. People add people for all kinds of reasons - to 'stalk' them, or because it's useful to have certain people in their network, or because they want a huge friends list. I find most people on my friends list are only really 'friends' with a few people on their list - those are the people they interact with a lot and joke around with on Facebook. With people they don't know so well, they won't joke - they'll be polite, like talking to an aquaintance, when that person posts to them, and they don't even interact with a lot of people on their list.

Never had a FB account, don't ever think about getting one.

I have no regrets for staying away from Facebook. Long after deciding against creating an account, I came across some interesting opinions of why others chose to avoid FB too:

Burn Facebook, Burn

Five reasons why I hate Facebook

Facebook Sucks

Why Facebook sucks, for all of us.

Facebook founder calls trusting users dumb f*cks

More reasons why Facebook sucks

I don't have a facebook account but I'm actually thinking of joining. I'm feeling sort of ambivalent. I'd like to get in touch with some people but I don't want my life to be on display, nor do I want to get into any arguments.

I gather it's possible to have the account and get in touch with people but not ever actually post anything?

I like facebook, but I don't post much stuff on there.

Yep, you don't have to post anything. You can also alter privacy settings so that you can't be found in searches, and that only select people can see your profile and your wall. I post sometimes on my wall, but it's generally small insignificant things, or sharing links. My life isn't on display at all. I don't get into arguments because when there are people who post annoying things to provoke argument, I just hide them so they don't show on my wall.

Yea. The vast majority of people's "friends" on facebook are really just acquaintances. If someone has 300 "friends" the number of people they converse back-and-forth with on a regular basis will only be 20 or so. It's really impossible to prevent random people from college who I barely recognize, yet who non-the-less remember me, from finding me and asking to be my friend. These people never leave messages on my wall or actually try to contact me but whatever. It's more about keeping tabs on all past your acquaintances so that if you ever had a reason to try and contact one of them in theory you could.

So why add them as friends when they're just acquaintances? is what I want to know.

I don't show my acquaintances the pictures I took on my last trip or even tell them when my birthday is. In fact, I want them to stay as far away from my personal life as possible. Most people, I'm guessing, have the same attitude toward their acquaintances (hence the reason they're "acquaintances" and not "friends"). So why? is still what I want to know.

I hate Facebook but I still use it. I've got 21 friends, and 5 of them are just famous musicians. I also employ an alias and rarely use a picture of myself because if I didnt then I would have to be "friends" with people I went to high school with just because they "know" me. The only thing I really use it for is sharing interesting articles and web pages that I find. (Not that anyone seems all that interested.) Pretty much no one on my friends list uses facebook to share things they find, only things they do. It seems Im one of the only people who doesnt write mundane things like "off to work" every day.