Don’t fall flat on your Facebook, get some social network sense

Social networking sites: they’ve been around since the early 90s and, if technology keeps heading in the direction it’s going, then they are going to be around until Judgement Day.

Most people nowadays have MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, all three, or maybe none at all. And besides talking to your friends, family, old teachers, and stalking your crushes to see if you have competition, what’s the point really?

Currently, I like over 1,000 Facebook pages, and have almost 500 friends. Am I addicted?

For better or worse, Facebook is like being at a big party with your friends, family, acquaintances, and co-workers. There’s interesting people that you’re happy to talk to, but then there are the other people that make you cringe when you see them coming. There are different types of people on Facebook that post different things about every single thing you could think of. There’s the teenage girl who keeps posting statuses about Justin Bieber or every single thing about their lives, from waking up to what they had for breakfast. There’s the person who has over 1,000 friends. Unless you’re George Clooney or just won the lottery, no one has that many. There are the people who post everything that happens in the media, and think they posted it first. Join the 213,000 other people who saw it on TMZ or E!.

There are the people who post WAY too much information. If you wouldn’t say it out loud, don’t put it on the internet. There are the people who look like they haven’t gone to an English class in years. Nobody likes a spelling Nazi, but you sound like a moron. I could go on and on, but you get the point.

Late last year, Facebook introduced their new profile and, if you wanted to, you could change. Until recently, last Thursday to be precise, Facebook switched everybody to this hideous new profile that some people love, but others don’t.

The last profile had your recent status update at the top, announcing that you were doing homework, hanging with friends, quotes, song lyrics, and many other things. This one, however, at the top is all of the basic information that you could want to know about a person: Birthday, hometown, work place, the school they attend, even what languages they speak. Couldn’t this give people more of a reason to stalk those ignorant teenage girls who accept every single person that adds them and don’t realize what they post to the internet? And why the heck would you want to know what languages people speak? Wouldn’t you recognize it from their posts?

Also, what’s up with ‘poking’ people? I mean, sure poking people in the real world would probably freak most people out, unless they’re your friends, but why is it always poking? Couldn’t we get more variety, like hugging? And what about the people that you can’t stand? Can we get a “punch” button, or “set on fire” button? Now that would be amusing.

And what’s up with all the ‘villes’? Farmville, Petville, Gardenville, Frontierville—the list goes on.

Is that like World of Warcraft, but on Facebook, since people are so addicted to it?

I can’t even begin to express how much I hate getting notifications from people saying that they need hay barrels or a shovel. Any way I can say this, it won’t end nicely. Simply put, I just don’t care.

Watch what you say on the Internet; it can come back to haunt you.