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I should probably look for a I hate Facebook thread.

I hate Facebook. I have enough problems successfully communicating with a person standing in front of me.....put me in a computer setting and everything gets magnified several times over.

"Oh we went to highschool together...let's be FB friends!" Why? We didn't hang out in highschool....why will we make good friends now?

So, fine. I am going to be travelling next month and I will be going to a town where my FB friend lives. I offered to meet up with her for lunch. Feeling pretty freaking awkward about it right now. Maybe I'll find a polite way to cancel the date.

no man, don't cancel it!

also i find it interesting that it's harder for you to socialize via the internet than in real life.
it's the complete opposite for me.

and yeah, i always wonder why people send me requests when they were never really friends with me, they just know who i am.

I wouldn't make a facebook for the longest time. I use it now while in college, so that I can keep in touch over the summer. That and the fact that I find it easier to communicate with people online and thus prefer to use facebook rather than the telephone, in person, ect. Facebook is annoying in the sense of "be my friend' invites, but for people I'm close-ish to I find it beneficial.

Facebook is stupid, kids my age are spending there whole day on facebook instead of going swimming, running around like kids did before there were computers and text messaging... Look's like were not gonna be the only one's with social problems.

Made a facebook so I could see the vacation photo's of my friends.

Going to delete it soon. It's useless stuff and people are completely absorbed in it for hours after hours instead of doing something productive.
What a stupid invention.

Without facebook, I wouldn't be able to keep in contact with my cousin that just got back from Iraq.

Friends on social networking sites are not the same as friends IRL.

Anyone who knows someone will probably want to add you as a friend on the internet, or even anyone randomly. This is not to discredit internet friendships-- they can mean something. But just general "be my friend on facebook" is just a way to network with people.

I have family and friends I haven't seen in years on Facebook.

It's not stupid.

I don't have a lot of friends on it but it does keep me in touch, I mainly use it for games

& sharing photos.

As a photophobe(I think that means light-fearer, but you know what I mean) and extraordinarily socially awkward person I also hate facebook.

Although I do have an account I don't use.

Facebook allows me to talk to people i would never be able to speak to in real life. It also lets me talk to people all over the world which i love. I also find that i am developmentally delayed by about ten years and that i definitely prefer to socialize in my limited manner with females. In real life i would be labeled some sort of creep for finding that quirky females ten years younger than me are the only people who ever make sense. The ability to interact with people like this is completely unheard of in my life prior to facebook. The narrow glimpse it gives is the totality of my social experience.

I love Facebook. Yeah, most of my "friends" aren't really friends, it's one of the few ways I can keep in touch with some of the real friends I do have. It's also a good way for me to network in my industry (because my industry doesn't use LinkedIn for some reason, we use Facebook). I like to get the updates on bands I like right when I log in, I like to post interesting articles (people do read them, whether they talk to me otherwise or not), and, hell, it's interesting to see what is going on with all those people with whom I attended high school.

I'll admit, I have confirmed friend requests from people who I was never really friends with, but nevertheless we still knew each other. Although I wouldn't send a friend request to someone whom I never really hung out with, I still confirm ones from other people simply because I'm too nice to turn them down. I do have my limits though--if it's someone whom I have never heard of in my life, then I will ignore their request. I'm not into that "add anybody and everybody who sends you a request, regardless of whether or not you actually know them" crap.

That being said, I enjoy Facebook. It's helped me reconnect with old friends from when I was younger and is helping me to keep in contact with other friends from high school. Without FB, I'd probably lose all contact with them.