Why do 99% of the people here hate facebook?

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I don't see how asking this is trolling.

I have Facebook and I use it to keep in touch with family and I have my online friends on there too and old school mates and my aid and other aid. I am posting more on there though but I still don't post very much. I don't feel the need to broadcast my life on there, I only post some things and that's it. I would feel like an attention whore if I posted every single thing I did in my life or what I am doing now.

I unfortunately use my real name but I kept my maiden name on there but my FB is set to private so no one is able to see my wall and my activities except people on my friends.

I also use it to post my baby's photos on there to update my parents on it and for my FB friends to see too. I often don't go looking at others profiles unless I am bored. And I was also convinced to joined, I got pushed and I finally gave in and joined and now I love it.

I use FB quite a bit.

It really gives an insight into people's inner thoughts, feelings and priorities, IMO, and should therefore almost be mandatory. Use your real name (or at least a part of it or a nickname which you can use to connect to those you've met in your life), but don't post more information in the info panel than you are comfortable with world + dog knowing.

The unwritten rules there are easier than real life rules, and FB can let your friends learn to know you in a new way as well.

Because it's mostly full of barely-literate, blow in the wind, vacuous morons that I wouldn't give much more than the time of day to in real life. So why would I bother with them just because they're on the Intarwebs?

I use FB to communicate with my family and personal friends and that's about all I use it for. The most annoying thing I encounter there are the glorified commericals known as the games, and I still get requests for them even though I said I don't play them. I only check it about once or twice a day and I only make a status update every 2-3 weeks. And as for Data-Mining, I just see that as wrong, But I have nothing to hide. My family tells me that i'm "shooting myself in the foot" by putting "Atheist" in my religious views, but that is only because i'm in the Bible Belt and they are Christians. I truly have nothing to hide about that. Facebook made alot of people rich, so something must be right about it.

I looked at a family member's wall and it was full of details as to if somebody was tired, or they were cleaning their room, or they took yet another picture of their darling child, or questioning of what to have for dinner.

Facebook isn't the problem, it's that people have boring lives with seemingly no interests whatsoever.

I dislike it because it is ugly, cluttered and awkward and I lean towards clean minimalism.

But I do have a facebook page because it's sort of like having an email address. People increasingly expect it so whatever.

Social networking is ok when you are young. But I don't see much point in finding people online and chatting to them. I did that before on Myspace and I'd only talk to someone for like a day and it was hard to get them to keep talking to me.
I also look at Facebook and see a part to society that I dislike. The continuously mocking everything and not taking life seriously. The people that glorify laziness and call you a nerd if you have an interest in learning. It's where I attempt to talk to people seriously and gets response of 'LOL's 'FAILS' and other such words.
I'm also a big supporter of The Shallows which describes the internet culture as being more impatient, having less of a memory and becoming well, shallow.

Or what Tequila said.

I just see people wasting away on applications or getting into petty disputes over status updates. These people really need to go out and stretch their legs or read a book.

That said I rarely use my Facebook account. I just let people know what's going on with me, share my blog posts and communicate with others with autism or autistic family members.

I don't hate facebook, but I quit using it a while back. It was fun at first, but after a time it seemed to be causing me more stress and anxiety than it was worth, so I dropped it. I may use it again someday (family wants me to), but not in the near future.

If I do rejoin, it will be just for family and close friends though. I'll never do the fake friends thing again.

I really like Facebook and use it a lot. I can be myself on FB without feeling uncomfortable. I use it as a way of showing people that I do want to be their friend, even though I don't socialise very much with them in RL. It's a social lifeline for me, a way of keeping in touch with workmates, old schoolfriends, and other friends and family who live around the world.

I don't have one, I just don't see a need for it. I prefer to use IM + email

I don't hate facebook. I play this game called word challenge on it......that's all I really use it for.........I'm a bit addicted to that game. I don't really use it for social networking. I don't like the MSN speech people use on Facebook........but other than that I have no problems with it. It's terrible in terms of privacy....but as long as you don't reveal anything on Facebook that you don't want the public to know.....I think it's okay.

I have no use for Facebook, and it's a proven security liability for anyone using it.

I see where some people find it useful to stay in touch with old family and friends, but too many NTs are prone to let it replace their normal life.

I find it easier just to not use it. I spend more than enough time online dealing with forums that let me interact with people I have common interests with.

I joined Facebook in late 2004 when it was still only for college students. It wasn't a bad site for years but I do think it took a massive downhill turn once it became popular. I just started getting really uncomfortable. First I posted a pic of myself on my profile (a typical smiley pic) only to attract some weird desperate lonely weirdo guys at my campus through my AIM so I had to privatize my profile and removed my pics. For a while I was caught up in some drama at school and started taking people off my friends list that I personally knew (or they would take me off). Seeing how seriously this was being taken made me question whether I really wanted to add Facebook drama to all the other drama that was already going on in my life. Then people started on my friends list started posting pics of themselves with people that really hurt me and became my enemies. It's hard to live with the fact that some friends are friends with your worst enemies. Then seeing all the people from college moving on getting married, developing careers, and all of that. I was getting sick of it all and nobody ever really communicated with me or sent me messages anymore except for people I generally still see in person anyway. All of that and I had to control my urge to not use my note section as a constant drama blog of my pitiful life.

Aside from all of those things I think what really sealed the deal was seeing Facebook's impact on society as a whole, the celebrity profiles, the bullycides, people making news just through their facebook alone. It was all too overstimulating to deal with and I wanted no part in something that I personally feel has gotten completely out of control. I'm just glad this wasnt around when I was in high school pre-diagnosis. I probably would've killed myself already.

So yeah that's why I deactivated my account last December. Despite having 200 friends on their I doubt any of them really missed seeing me on there since I posted a whole lotta nothing anyway.