Today's top ten Facebook pet peeves

Can I rant about Facebook for a minute?

Because of my workload, I have not been paying any attention recently to all the discussions about Facebook, so I have no idea what is going on on that front, except some vague notion that you can advertise on it now or something.

But I am getting really irritated by Facebook for several reasons, which I am about to list for you, in no particular order, if you can bear with me here.

1) I hate the ads. I don't need a dating service. Really I don't. And even if I did, large-breasted blonde women are not really my thing (sorry). Piss off!

2) What's with the millions of applications? Why can I not "just say no" when a friend invites me to add something? (I mean I can, but I can't). So now I have something like 30 applications, and I would love to remove all of them, but I can't bring myself to.

3) The whole Super-Poking/being bitten by zombies/getting a sheep thrown at me thing is wearing thin. Apart from my amusement at my never-ending poking game with bmart, I don't really want the rest - but then again, what if I want to send flowers or a Cosmo to someone later? Dang!

4) And what's with telling everyone everything I do? I have a ton of my association members as Friends, since I want to slowly grow a group for my association, but I don't necessarily want them to know that I added some random music application or joined the "Unlike 99.99% of the Facebook population, I was born in the 70's" group. I know you are supposedly able to turn all this off, by the way, I am just too lazy/too busy/not in the mood to go through and do it.

5) I thought you were supposed to be able to separate friends from family from professional colleagues? When is that going to happen? I got the Cliquey app from someone and put people into groups, but then it very irritatingly went and told everyone what groups I put them in. What if I had set up a couple of "cliques" called "sad losers I feel obliged to talk to", or "no idea who the F these people are"? Luckily I would never do that... : )

6) Why does everything have to be on my profile page? Why can't I move 90% of this crap that I can't seem to actually remove completely, and just put it on a page 2 so it doesn't annoy me all the time?

7) Why can I only belong to one network? What's up with that? I lived in Edinburgh and London for 15 years, why does it have to be only DC?

8) Why can I not join groups for my high school and university, just for the purposes of trying to find old classmates? Last time I tried I think they both said I had to be a current student. Am I missing some secret place where the alumni groups hide out?

9) Why do I not receive messages posted to my groups, which is really the only thing I am truly interested in? Shouldn't I be able to get them in my Facebook inbox, at least, if not in my real email? (Seriously if someone knows how to turn that feature on let me know - I am probably just being dense).

10) People keep saying to me, "Oh, I need to respond to you about the Facebook thing you sent me." ???? WTF? probably related to #4.

OK that was more like many minutes of ranting. Sorry!