Facebook is not my Friend

I used to like Facebook. Not so much anymore.

Facebook used to be a great forum to just get a glimpse about what was happening with your friends and family. Occasionally you would comment on something and rarely you would have a conversation with a true beginning, middle and end. If fed the voyeur in all of us with pictures, funny stories and perfect one liners. It was fun.

Now it feels like a full time job to keep up on everything. Somehow I have managed to divide my Facebook friends into lists and I am not sure how it actually happened. In doing so, I have lost the simple, clean and fun news feed. In order to see what everyone is doing I have to hit about 7 different "list" feeds and try to figure out what I have missed. What makes this even harder is that I usually access FB on my phone and for just a quick minute here and there, which means I am missing a ton of crap.

Missing a ton of crap probably wouldn't be a big deal if it weren't for the fact that people have posted stuff to me that I have never seen, commented on items of mine that I never knew, or responded to something I said in someone elses' thread and I look like a complete A$$ because I didn't respond to their response. People's feelings are getting hurt, grudges are being held and friendships are faltering all because I can't manage to figure out this list thing. What the hell is going to happen when I am forced to finally give in and switch to the Timeline?!

Recently I watched the movie The Social Network about the humble beginnings of Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. I am not sure if they were trying but they sure made him look like a friendless ass. Therefore, I am forced to come to the conclusion that all these changes being made to the layout, lists and timeline of Facebook are all a round about way of making us all become friendless asses. If we miss enough messages, comments and threads we will be blocked from everyone we have ever known just because we can't figure out the ever changing social networking monopoly. We will be outcasts of the cyber society but without the millions of dollars that Mr. Zuckerberg has to buy new friends.

My trivial complaints about FB are nothing compared to the people that are being asked to release their passwords to current or potential employers. When did it become acceptable to invade someones privacy? Are you no longer afforded the luxury of a personal life? If you have placed the necessary blocks that your page is not available to the public, can not be accessed by anyone other than your friends, then I don't think anyone has the right to request your password to access your account. On the other hand, if you are stupid enough to make your page, pictures or anything public and someone sees it then that is your own damn fault! I might not know how to find every one's news feed but I know how to make mine private.

So to all my Facebook friends, I am sorry. Sorry that I am a fuddy duddy. Sorry that I can't figure these lists out. Sorry that I haven't responded when you thought I would, thought I should because I am not sure I could. I will keep trying, but in the meantime I am an ace when it comes to emails and as long as one of my kids isn't using my cell phone to destroy a distant planet I can text like a champ!