Facebook sucks
It doesn’t suck in the sense of privacy issues or terms of service (I’ll let someone else debate that), rather it sucks in the sense of time. Quite literally its sucking up your time.
I’ve haven’t logged onto Facebook for a good month or so now, and I’m not missing it one bit. I still get sent Friend Requests, and the weekly Facebook Fan Page (Task.fm) update, but thats about my involvement with the site. No more Farmville, no more pokes and definitely no more Facebook chat.
I looked at Facebook one day and thought “My God, what the hell am I doing here?”.
When I looked at my activity, all I was doing was looking at drunk pictures of friends and the mindless chatter that ensued. If you get kicks out of that, then be my guest, go ahead, Facebook is your friend. But for me, this felt like one giant waste of time.
So Facebook is gone.
The average user spends 100 minutes on Facebook every week — thats average, I know many a person who spends twice that amount of time each and every day. So instead of poking, I’ve decided to spend my 100 minutes on something more worthwhile….
While You Were On Facebook
While You Were on Facebook, is a movement I can really get behind. Its a challenge to see what people can come up with, by dedicating the time they would be on Facebook to something actually worthwhile.
My attempt is well underway and here’s a sneak peak:
So I challenge you – yes you (the peeps who keep sending me annoying Fan requests) to jump off Facebook and actually make something cool. Write an ebook, code an app, takes some photographs . Head on over to this page to grab all the details (props to Karl Stolley for setting this up).
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I am always saying. Facebook is a great business, lucky him who created it and all others who share its profit.
All those others who only got sucked in by some other friend shall consider trying to live without it.
I would not say avoid it completely but, how about you check it only once a day. Check on your friends if they are ok, check out how was that party you didnt go to and that it. No farmwille, no stupid group invitations and no stupid statuses that dont really say anything.
Great points Gordon!
Ha Ha! I just created a business page for nomuu on facebook, apart from that I never use it. I remember when facebook first became popular and people in my work office, were just wasting hours on it, I couldn’t understand all the fuss! I actually never bothered with it. I found it invasive, a time-waster and didn’t trust it from day one. I still don’t. But then again, I’m not sharing my private life with it. I wont add any personal information, personal photos… purely business.
I mostly just use Facebook to connect with people and build up relationships and help spread quality content I provide. A note there, I said quality content, not just content I run into online.
It can suck up time which is why managing why you use it and what you do on it is so important. I’ve actually quit playing games on it and my girlfriend will make a lier out of me there because she signs onto mine and plays games lol.
I tried Facebook in the past and didn’t like all of the flirting crap. I was looking to expand my SEO niche and it seemed to just deliver former classmates.
I just didn’t see any SEO value to it, so I closed my account.