Facebook: One of the greatest creations and disappointments of our time

Is it just me or does Facebook really suck these days? It is nearly impossible to login to Facebook without a bombardment of "news feed" snippets, status updates, and 100 annoying requests for applications that suck from people that you do not care about who consequentially suck even more.

When Facebook first started there was a good premise behind it. The purpose of the website was to connect people on a social network at different universities, at least after it expanded from Harvard. It was unlike MySpace in the fact that it was a simple layout with not much that one could do other than keep in touch with past classmates who were enrolled at pretty much any university in the country. These are exactly the kind of people I would like to keep in touch with. If I wanted to keep in touch with a bunch of burnouts, be forced to listen to their subpar "music," and see "bitchin'" HTML graphics I would login to my seldom used MySpace account, which on average I frequent once a month at best.

Facebook has gone down hill ever since allowing anybody to obtain an account. I have no problem with allowing access to everybody but it is at this point that the shitty features began to take form. With this there is now profile customization that results in me being pissed off when I view a friend's profile. One of the worst things is the news feed that shows up on the home page that tells you what everybody is doing. I don't care what any of you assholes are doing. If I did, I would click on your profile and read your status update, or even worse, succumb to the newest stupid trend that is known as Twitter.

Even worse than stalker feed are the stupid applications that Facebook has to offer. Some of you might think these are cool, and perhaps they are, until I have to waste 2 seconds of my precious time deleting your unwanted request from my unwanted Facebook inbox. I feel absolutely violated every time I receive one of these. No I do not want to go on a pirate or ninja raid with you. Pirates and ninjas kickass, and you are a disgrace to their name!

Alas, Facebook provides fellatio to more men than an 8 Mile hooker. I have been considering joining ConnectU, which is the company that pressed charges against Facebook for infringements. This is a similar (similar to Facebook before it smoked pole) social network that allows college students to socialize with one another. Another idea I have been seriously giving consideration to is launching my own social networking website. I am currently seeking out a partner in this as I have limited time to maintain such an endeavor, and also lack sufficient knowledge to do so. For now I will suck it up and use Facebook like the tool that I am.