Why do 99% of the people here hate facebook?

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32 is still less than 99.

I don't hate facebook. I rarely ever post on my page, but I enjoy reading what others do. Clicking "like" on somebody's post gives me the feeling of socialization without all of the awkwardness.

The total expectation of participation bothers me. It's assumed that I have a facebook page because, well, everyone has a facebook page. How else would we have meaningful convers.. I mean throw sheep at one another? Too many people equate facebook with being reachable. I still have email, I have a cell, a ground line and an AIM/MSN handle for IMing.

The assumptions about facebook and people bother me far more than the existence of facebook. When it is assumed that the only reason someone would have for not being on facebook is because they simply don't like people. I like people fine. But I take some serious exceptions to facebook's privacy policy and attitude towards security when it comes to third party addons and other software, how they handle their updates and how they creep a little closer on privacy and security settings every time.

And to be honest, people always find some new social whatever that will make it a thousand times easier to keep in touch. But it never holds. Because really, most of the people you lost track of you probably didn't care an awful lot about keeping in touch with anyway. Otherwise why would people who claimed to want to keep in touch with me ignore the fact that my email hasn't changed in over 12 years and they've had the address forever? Usually as well as my phone number and home address. The real reason they didn't send an email was that it either wasn't important enough to them, or they felt guilty that they hadn't in a while and then it just got tougher and tougher for them to send anything as it time went on. Having a new social network site doesn't fix that, it's a people problem, not a technology problem.

I like facebook very much but I use t my way. I have NO interest in staying n touch with former school mates. I use it to join groups where I can talk about my interests and make friends with people (around the world, not in my area) who I find I can get along with. There are also several AS-related groups and I met nice people there.

1. It's full of trojans
2. It's full of annoying games and stupid questionnaires
3. If people know how to use sites like Spokeo, they can still find you on Facebook, even if you are gullible enough to think your profile is set to "private"
4. It's addictive
5. It's full of people
6. It's full of people having affairs and cheating
8. It brings back memories of said cheats
9. When I post something about my day, nobody cares
10. It's got global market monopoly. Even if 1-9 were not true, I'd be avoiding it just to avoid being like a sheep
11. It's a con. When it started, it used to be about networking. Now, it's about marketing. They're selling/passing on all the information you are stupid enough to give away.

As of just now, the poll shows 41% like FB; 20% hate...

I'm among the likers. I don't care for phone calling or people stopping in to visit. FB is a great way to interact with friends and keep in the circle, without being invaded.

Charles

Even though I'm on Facebook, rarely do I log in to see what other "friends" are doing (it's not like I really see most other people on FB as friends, merely schoolmates). Facebook is a tool that can be used to stay in contact with people if you're having a certain problem, and know which "friends" to speak to for solutions to the problem.

Because its all about instant friendship.

You can easily unfriend or befriend someone for the midlest and silliest things.

"You poked me, I'm not your friend any more", a bit of an exaggerated example, but you get the point.

Its not based on valued or valid friendships. Just what you do and who you are with.

Well I've never been too keen to the idea of putting a bunch of information on the internet either, I can get uncomfortable posting things even anonymously. I'm just a very private person. As for Facebook or Myspace, I always felt it was some competition on who has the most friends and that's not one I'm going to win although from what I understand they don't even really know most of the people on their "friend's list". I don't mind if other people use it but I just don't see the point and would rather not have to deal with it but it has seemed to have become an essential part of social interaction now.

because its overrated shallow stupid BS. much like smartphones and the f*****g text/yt/twitter phenomenon. but its here to stay. in the information age. i stayed with myspace through july 2010 and then switched and its just not the same. i went through a period over the winter months where i turned fb off for a few days/weeks at a time but always end up turning it back on. its depressing BS. its stupid BS. its selfish BS. plus im refusing to get into the hype and watch the social network movie, i feel like then i'll be a complete sellout symbolically sucking off zuckerberg and his advertising cronies all at once. but thats just me. fb is not reality. fb is made up BS for all of our 900 friends when we only talk/see/or even truly f*****g know maybe 25 percent of those jackasses. and no my numbers arent 900. more like less than 40. and im f*****g fine with it. f**k facebook in the face!

I would not say i hate it, but i will NEVER have a facebook account. There security record is about as strong as... something not very strong...