Love-Hate

Every damn day I hate Facebook for one reason or another.

But then I look at the good stuff about it, and I relax. I still hate it. I will always hate Facebook to some degree, but that kid knew what he was doing. So I commend him for that, and I continue to use his service, which changed my life here in Lexington. (See? I can't hate it that much. It really helped me in a social way.)

I heard about Facebook when you still needed a .edu email to join, so I got an alum email address from my alma mater. I was an early adult adopter, and some of my earliest friends on Facebook were my blogging friends. And I don't mean that in a hipster way, like Facebook is so uncool now that they let everyone in.

(Although I'm sure that folks who were in college five years ago feel that way. To that I say I GET YOU.)

The changes Facebook has made annoy me. To be sure, rare is the FB application that I will allow. And I clamp down on my privacy settings as soon as I hear about a change. For this bullshit, I hate Facebook. But for all the rest, I love it.

And I hate that I love it.

Comments

[meredith]

I know what you mean. I was going to delete my FB back when I was in a deleting frenzy...but didn't, couldn't... So I upped the privacy and deleted all the applications.

[Mari]

I'm right there on that bench with you.

[Margaret]

I *heart* this post because I feel the SAME way!! I despise myself for my fascination with what everyone is going. Thank goodness I don't have twitter. :)

[Margaret]

DOING!! Ack.

[Jack]

I hate how it has infected everything.

[Steph]

Agreed. And as someone who joined fb about 4 months after its initial launch, i do resent the fact that they let anyone in now...