Once upon a time, I really liked Facebook. Facebook was new, it was pretty cool and everyone was on it! Or at least everyone who “mattered.” Facebook was the gateway to virtual popularity since you could friend anyone who went to the same school without seeming really creepy (MySpace anyone?).
When Facebook was at its best, it had just added the photo capability. It was great; you could upload photos, look at friends’ photos, comment on them, write on their walls and message your friends. That was perfect. It did everything I needed it to do; I had a place to stay in touch with people and put up my photos.
Then Facebook introduced this weird thing called applications. At first, it was kind of amusing; “Hey look, someone threw a cow at me! I can high-five them back!” Or I could send my friends fake alcohol; obviously the epitome of cool. Now there are way too many applications and most of them serve no purpose or serve the purpose of advertising for businesses. Neither of these reasons are why I’m on Facebook. Now I’m on Facebook because I can keep in touch with people. I don’t have time browse through profiles or monitor my applications.
Here is what I equate Facebook to: Invader Zim. Normally Invader Zim is an alien of average size, this is the representation of the “before” Facebook:
In one episode of Invader Zim, Dark Harvest, Zim decides that to be more human he needs organs, lots of organs. Zim starts collecting organs from fellow classmates, unbeknownst to the classmates, of course! Zim become this over-sized, bloated alien mass, much how I feel Facebook has become.
So…that was my Facebook rant.
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