Why do 99% of the people here hate facebook?

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I'm not trolling, I really don't understand why people here hate Facebook so much. Why do they?

I don't hate it. People need to have something to do, so they jump on the Facebook. If I lived someplace else, I would jump on it too, why not? I just don't want to Facebook while I live here because I'm not interested in who would respond.

I'm in the middle. I like looking at everybody's walls and posting what's on my mind. The games are also fun. It's the chat feature that I don't like. I'd rather send message, than chat. Chatting seems so unnatural to me.

It's just not smart to compile all that personal info on the internet.
Myspace is better

Where did you get that percentage from??

Anyway, I like facebook I'm actually quite addicted.

I got into an interesting political disagreement with some folks on mine yesterday. Way to build friendships there!

i like it, i get invited to things there, can discuss things without having to be face to face, join in the event, then appear interested afterwards by talking on fb better than I would in person!

I don't hate it as such, but I don't understand or 'get' the appeal to be honest.

A relative (exitedly) showed me their page once, and I kind of felt a bit dissapointed that all the hype about FB, just amounted to a page with some pics of people I didn't know with some comments about things I was never part of, so made no sense to me; why don't they just pick up the phone or arrange to meet if they are such good pals?

Some people treat it as a 'keeping in touch tool', with people they rarely see in the flesh, and that's great, but there are others who treat it as a 'social badge', "look how many 'friends' I have on facebook"; which is fine, but there's no need to go on about it and consistently say "you should get on Facebook" or "why don't you have a Facebook?".

I'm also, (probably naively) suspicious of the internet, so putting my personal info. and things I do on a weekly/monthly basis (or whatever people do on it!), I find a bit disturbing; it's 'there' for anyone (in your friends malarkey) to see; I don't want (potential) people having access to my life 24/7.

I have a mobile phone and email, but I don't use either like the 'average' person uses them; they are there if I need them, but they don't rule my life, nor do I need to use or check them on a daily basis

Come to think of it, maybe I do hate Facebook!

I watched 'The social network' recently, don't know how 'true to life' it is; but, if there is any truth to it's conception, it's quite ironic........

I avoided it for a long time, but someone convinced me to join and now I enjoy it. However, I do not share any personal information on there, not even my real name. There are a lot of things that are annoying about it, but I can find a way to block most of them.

The site is usefull for keeping in touch with old friends and such. I'll use it to get in touch with people, like I'll sometimes leave a message on someone's wall that I haven't heard from in a while. If they don't respond it's okay. It's just kind of a low-priority non-intimidating way to stay in touch with people.

I don't really have the ambition to use it like a diary by advertizing what I'm doing on my wall though. I'm just too much of a private person to feel comfortable doing that. I mostly just keep my profile up to date. I also don't understand how some people spend hours a day on facebook though. That's just zzzzz........ boring. Most of the games aren't really that fun.

I don't hate facebook, especially since it helps me to keep in touch with my kids at college. But I can understand why those with autism and AS would hate it. Most of us are socially awkward, and who wants to be socially awkward in print for the world to see?

I like facebook, in fact it's made me help be a better social person, so that I am aware of what my friends and family are feeling and doing. I like being informed on specific events and attending them and seeing how my friends are doing in their pictures. It's because I can tye more better socially with alot of the friends I've made from my school district ,than to talk it out alot of the times.

I don't hate facebook, but I personally don't have any interest in it.
I joined under the influence of an NT friend just over a year ago, and haven't really done a thing on there for six months plus.
All that appears to happen on there is "friends" speaking nonsense and other people replying with more nonsense. And then a weird photo or two is thrown in for good measure.
Now, maybe the however many "friends" I accumilated on there in the past year have nothing better to do with their lives, which I guess could be plausible since the most active ones on there are around my age.
That's my personal view, but in response to the OP about why most people here seem to dislike it, I would hazard to guess that since Autism/AS is primarily a social impairment, a social networking website is perhaps not the wisest of ideas for some.