Facebook. Whats the beef with it?

I don't see what the problem is with it...I am an active user, and use it pretty often, not just for saying stupid things to people I would normally say it to irl, but for e-mail among friends, scheduling events, 're-living' good times through a well put together photo album, etc. 
 
I don't want to start flames or anything, I'm just genuinely curious as to what your feelings are?  Why are you for or against this? 

For Facebook you need friends. I have none.

I love Facebook. It gives me a perfect opportunity to showcase all of the pretentious pictures I have of myself.

Facebook is made to fulfill the average teenager's narcissistic needs. Therefore, it fucking pisses me off.  

Facebook is bullshit.

"I'm grateful for facebook for birthing all those ''facebook fail'' websites. "

I don't see anything wrong with Facebook either.  Unless people are purposely adding a thousand people who they've never met in real life, then it's fine for social networking among your friends.  
 
I think it's quite simply that a lot of users on this site are self-complacent, self righteous douchebags who must absolutely hate on anything that's popular in an effort to cover up themselves being losers in real life.

Nothing wrong with facebook if all your friends on there are your actual friends and not some random people you got from a facebook app.  
 
Also it helps if the people you know are not dooshes. 

I use it to keep in touch with family that lives overseas that I can't visit every day. 
Also to keep in touch with friends that I used to live with over in the states and other places when I was travelling "around the globe" (not really around the globe) 
 
No idea why people on this site normally hates on facebook. 
I really have no idea, they never give a reason. 
It's usually the 12 year olds that does it, and the only thing they say is "I hate it, and.. I did your mom" .. makes no sense.

It keeps me in touch with my family who is spread out across the country, my friends who are deployed overseas, and allows us all to share things going around the household (mostly pics, food, etc). I only have 30 friends but they are people who I care about and want to keep close.
 
That's why I use Facebook. And for that small purpose, it works very well for me.

" For Facebook you need friends. I have none. "

Stupid apps, stupid groups, and stupid people make it terrible for me. I prefer twitter.

Facebook is what you make of it.

i found out after i signed up that none of the friends i'd want to contact even use facebook, so i'm stuck with all the people who vaguely remember me from high school just adding me to see if i'm alive and that's it.

" @kmdrkul: Self-Complacency: I won't lie, I feel pretty smug when given the opportunity to respond to a topic such as thing, and the satisfaction is worth it.                       Self-Righteousness: Yep. I enjoyed the feeling, however misplaced it was, I got by describing Facebook as a place of lepers that I am glad to be away from.                      Douchebaggery: Not gonna disagree with you here, I love clumping groups of  fine people into a generalized mush of negativity.                       Hating on Popularity: A euphoric experience associated with all of the above.                        Covering Up Being a Loser in Real Life: Once again, internet anonymity. Love it. Hate it. It is what it is baby. "

Well, since none of my friends on there are particularly narcissistic, I'm only annoyed by FB when the servers crash.  I think most of the complaints people have about the site are more about the people using it than the site itself, which has proved useful on many occasions. I have maybe 10 pictures of myself on there, and use it only to organize meeting up with people, have conversations, etc. And, in contrast to the big complaint about FB, I only friend people I actually talk to in real life. 

Facebook was cool until it suddenly became an extension of real life communication methods. Now people look at my profile and think I'm probably some drunk party-boy stoner asshole when people are just seeing photos of me when I cut loose a couple times each year.  
 
Now people are taking Facebook seriously, I'll have trouble getting hired for certain jobs, people will think I'm a dick, etc. it's totally not cool.  
 
I miss the old days of internet anonymity when I can be somewhat more of an asshole than usual. Not a total asshole, just a bit more if I wanted to vent over the web. Now I just look totally psychotic to some people. Great. 
 
Goddamn facebook, I have nothing against the site, just about how people are taking social networking too fucking far.

It's OK I guess.  I really don't use it though.

all my old friends have buggered off to university and off all round the country, so facebook is great for keeping in touch.
 
great for organsing stuff as well.

I think its stupid, I have one, but I only check it like once a month.  I don't see why people are constantly on it narrating their lives to people, its cool to say hi to people you haven't seen for years but people get obsessive with it and it baffles my mind.

I don't use Facebook, MySpace or any other social network.  I have a phone.  If I need to contact someone, I call them.

"I don't see what the problem is with it...I am an active user, and use it pretty often, not just for saying stupid things to people I would normally say it to irl, but for e-mail among friends, scheduling events, 're-living' good times through a well put together photo album, etc. 
 
My fbook site  I don't want to start flames or anything, I'm just genuinely curious as to what your feelings are?  Why are you for or against this?  *edit*  Sorry, link doesn't seem to work properly.  I think if you're a fbook user and currently logged on, you can access it . . . I think. "

Hate it. Too much inane content and random adds. If I vaguely knew you in highschool, and your were always an ass to me, why the fuck would I want to add you as a friend. And if I don't know you, and  you don't give me a reason to add you, why the fuck would I add you.

" Facebook is made to fulfill the average teenager's narcissistic needs. Therefore, it fucking pisses me off.   "

" Facebook is what you make of it. "

" Facebook is made to fulfill the average teenager's narcissistic needs. Therefore, it fucking pisses me off.   "

I love it keeps you connected.

It's full of people who I don't like trying to "poke" me. I have no desire to have any contact with those people. All they do is bother me and get me angry at them.

The same problem as with twitter,
I don't need to know what every moron I know is doing every second of the day,
 
John Doe: Has to take a massive shit......
    Jane Doe: Thanks for Sharing.....
    John Doe: Oh god, I can't even sit down now.....
 
Billy Bob: Last night was CrAzY,  I'm Soooooo hung over
    Skanky Sally: did you see me leave with any one?
    Billy Bob: didnt you leave with John?
    John Doe: Yeah she did, Hey sally... Can you sit down?
    Skanky Sally: Shhhhh.... Your going to embarrass me
    Fatty Arbuckle: Likes This.
 
Jane Doe: is going to watch Twilight: New Moon, Again tonight
    Skanky Sally: Lets play Egg Breaker
    Jane Doe: Ok, Where should we meet before the movie?
 
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT UP JESUS CHRIST ON A DAMN CRACKER SHUT UP

It's popular, therefore people who want to be 'cool' say it's crap. But even if you ignore that, it's still got a bunch of functions that are really annoying.

People will bitch about anything.  They are cool people. 

Facebook makes it easier to keep track of people I've met in high school, college, etc.

" The same problem as with twitter, I don't need to know what every moron I know is doing every second of the day,  John Doe: Has to take a massive shit......     Jane Doe: Thanks for Sharing.....     John Doe: Oh god, I can't even sit down now.....  Billy Bob: Last night was CrAzY,  I'm Soooooo hung over     Skanky Sally: did you see me leave with any one?     Billy Bob: didnt you leave with John?     John Doe: Yeah she did, Hey sally... Can you sit down?     Skanky Sally: Shhhhh.... Your going to embarrass me     Fatty Arbuckle: Likes This.  Jane Doe: is going to watch Twilight: New Moon, Again tonight     Skanky Sally: Lets play Egg Breaker    Jane Doe: Ok, Where should we meet before the movie? SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT UP JESUS CHRIST ON A DAMN CRACKER SHUT UP "

" @Coombs said:

" The same problem as with twitter, I don't need to know what every moron I know is doing every second of the day,  John Doe: Has to take a massive shit......     Jane Doe: Thanks for Sharing.....     John Doe: Oh god, I can't even sit down now.....  Billy Bob: Last night was CrAzY,  I'm Soooooo hung over     Skanky Sally: did you see me leave with any one?     Billy Bob: didnt you leave with John?     John Doe: Yeah she did, Hey sally... Can you sit down?     Skanky Sally: Shhhhh.... Your going to embarrass me     Fatty Arbuckle: Likes This.  Jane Doe: is going to watch Twilight: New Moon, Again tonight     Skanky Sally: Lets play Egg Breaker    Jane Doe: Ok, Where should we meet before the movie? SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT UP JESUS CHRIST ON A DAMN CRACKER SHUT UP "

Maybe you need to get freinds who aren't total fucking tools. "

" My problem with it is most of my friends keep spamming me with items on my wall from those horrible web games.  I just gave up on it for the most part. "

" I love Facebook. It gives me a perfect opportunity to showcase all of the pretentious pictures I have of myself. "

I only started using it probably about six months ago. I find it to be pretty useful to schedule events or gatherings. I don't play any games, I don't do quizzes (generally), and I don't do friend facts or anything like that, and maybe that's why I don't hate it like most people. I also try to keep my FB friends as the people who are my friends in real life, so when I get friend requests from people that I don't like being around or who have never shown any type of friendship towards me, I deny them (for the record, I'm in high-school and I see most everybody on my friends list every day).
 
I can certainly understand people having hate towards it, because it is brutally, brutally misused (or maybe not misused, maybe I'm the one misusing it) by most people who have accounts. Oh well.

Quite frankly, I love facebook. This is sort of embarrassing, but my facebook usage has increased my real popularity and social life at least ten fold.  

I don't really see the negativity towards Facebook either. I think it's a great site for friends, planning events, and just random gratuitousness. 

I like it.  Like you said it's great for re-connecting with friends or just staying in contact with your current friends.  I think why some people hate it is because of how stupid some people act on it (which is going to happen on the internet when you get tons of people together no matter what site it is).

" It's popular, therefore people who want to be 'cool' say it's crap. But even if you ignore that, it's still got a bunch of functions that are really annoying. "

Don't put a link to your facebook page on a website full of strangers. You'll get raped.

I have no issues with facebook. I'm as much of an asshole on the internet as I am in real life so there's no problems with that. It is useful for keeping in contact with old friends the have moved off to god knows where.
 
Plus if I sync my phone with my facebook calendar I can keep track of the important dates instead of having to enter all the info into my phone, which is annoying.
 
If you have friends that are stupid narcissistic teenagers then that's your problem.

It would be better if it worked like a forum. You can't arrange or underline text. And it would be nice if instead of just responding with text when someone posts that their grandmother has just died, I could post a picture of  a monkey drinking it's own piss, to you know, make them feel better.

I like facebook but I have to admit I am an average teenager narcissist.