Once upon a time, Facebook was a happy place. Friends shared cute photos of their kids or their pets. People wrote witty little observations or mini-stories in 100 words or less. Occasionally, someone would ask for a restaurant recommendation. Maybe they would explain why they liked a certain movie or song. The response among friends would be instantaneous and usually thoughtful. Unlike Twitter, Facebook was truly interactive. Reactions and conversations fueled Facebook’s growing appeal.
That was a long time ago. Today, Facebook is like a once-thriving neighborhood now littered with payday loan stores, political campaign signs and ugly billboards. The sidewalks that were once filled with friendly pedestrians are mostly vacant. Neighbors don’t venture outside to talk to one another much anymore.
I’ve come up with a top 10 list of things I dislike about Facebook mostly because lists seem to be the only way we can communicate and process information these days. Maybe you will agree with some of my observations. Some of them you will certainly find to be cranky and old man-ish. Anyway, here they are–10 Amazing Reasons Why Facebook Sucks:
#1. Personal Branding. Participating on Facebook has become less about sharing information and more about managing your own personal brand. I’m as guilty of this as anyone and probably more than most. The past several months, I have been using Facebook to promote my novel to an extent that even I am now tired of writing about it (it is delightful book, by the way). Even if I didn’t have a product to pitch, I would still probably spend way too much time thinking about my Facebook persona. A few weeks ago, Father’s Day rolled around and I felt this strange obligation to post something about the holiday. Why would I feel that was an important thing to do? It’s not like I’m paid to write about Father’s Day, or that anyone beyond a dozen people would care about my thoughts on the occasion. Ten years ago, I would not have considered sending out a blast email to all of my friends and contacts about Father’s Day. Why do I feel pressured to do so now, to compete against other peoples’ personal brands with my own Father’s Day post? It doesn’t seem healthy.
#2. Advertising. It is no big revelation that Facebook uses your personal data to sell you things. This was first revolutionized by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, when he used bookselling as a tool to learn peoples’ personal tastes and how to market to them. Facebook is just following suit. Still, it is irritating to scroll through my news feed and see one ad after another for the Dollar Shave Club. I don’t go to Facebook to buy stuff. I want to find out what my friends are doing.
#3. Politics. Hey, friend who used to write amusing posts about his family, sports and pop culture–I get it. You hate the Republicans. They’re destroying the country. I may agree with you on most points but that doesn’t mean I want to read every single article you share from The Huffington Post, Politico or MSNBC. I’ve got news for you, political friend. You are talking to the same circle of agreeable buddies while everyone else has tuned you out. You have not changed anyone’s mind about the important political issues of the day.
#4. Shares. It seems to me that most of us on Facebook have migrated from writing original posts to just sharing news articles, memes or surveys that we find amusing. Now, we can even share streaming videos that stream whether the viewer wants them to or not. The result is a visual cluster with no rhyme or reason. Just glancing at my feed right now, I see “29 Terrifying Panorama Fails That Will Haunt Your Nightmares,” a meme about getting up when life knocks you down, an ad about paying off my mortgage and “26 Struggles Anyone Raised Catholic Will Totally Understand.” Some days, finding a text post in your news feed that actually tells you what somebody is doing with their life is like discovering a rare, precious jewel.
#5. Misinformation. I was guilty of this the other day. I shared a piece about how much time people spend on their phones that was, upon closer examination, probably made up. I’ve also seen a quote about funding for the arts attributed to Winston Churchill that he never said. There is a lot of bogus stuff on the Internet, and we all get fooled every now and then. Lately, however, I’ve noticed “friends” trying to trick each other with misinformation. For example, an article about a celebrity death that you click on only to find the headline, “You been owned!” Shame on me for having a morbid curiosity about one of the stars of The Walking Dead, I guess.
#6. Narcissism. This one is nothing new. Facebook and other social media have made all of us more narcissistic. Still, I believe that the problem is evolving from “self-absorbed” to “totally lacking in self-awareness.” Yes, you may be a good friend, but that doesn’t mean I want to be updated four times a day about your latest adventures in Cancun. It just makes me jealous. Also, sometimes it’s a little irritating to be part of a mass layoff from a company you worked at for eight years, and then read posts from your former co-workers gushing about how cool it is to work for that company. That’s my bad, of course. I don’t have to read those posts and, in the future, I won’t be friending as many co-workers on Facebook.
#7. Unoriginal Narcissism. Back when everyone got digital cameras on their phones, some people truly believed that the quality of experimental photography would explode. What we’ve gotten, instead, is people taking the same damn types of pictures as everyone else, in addition to a gluttony of photo-bombs and selfies. I really don’t care to see your feet, even if they are landscaped against a beautiful Caribbean beach. That photo has been done a million times before. The only feet I really care about seeing belong to my wife and my child, and that’s it.
#8. Anger and Negativity. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to use social media to complain about your problems, take shots at a former spouse or cuss about that stupid thing Obama did. I just think it reflects poorly on a person’s character (just like writing a 1,300-word screed about Facebook probably reflects poorly on my character). It is also important to note that those comments never really go away. Even if you delete them, which Facebook now allows, those posts are floating out there somewhere. Someday, your angry vents on Facebook may work against you. Also, if negativity becomes an important part of your personal brand (see #1 above), even your friends will stop reading and caring.
#9. Meddling. Based on what you share and with whom you interact, Facebook thinks it knows you better than you know yourself. That is why only certain friends, products and stories keep showing up in your news feed. Eventually this can become a form of mind control. If I haven’t interacted with my friend George for six months, his updates and shares will disappear from my feed. Since I never see anything from George, I assume he is no longer active on Facebook. Pretty soon, I stop thinking about George because, unless I look up his profile, I am not connected to his life. Ultimately it’s my fault for not picking up the phone and giving George a call, but Facebook still plays a subtle part in bringing us closer to some friends and distancing us from others. That power over what and who we care about is frightening.
So there you have it—-nine reasons why Facebook definitely sucks. Wait, did I say there were 10 reasons? Well, I can’t think of a 10th reason.
I guess Facebook really isn’t so bad after all.
Stephen Roth is author of the award-winning humorous novel, A Plot for Pridemore. Be sure to “like” his author fan page at https://www.facebook.com/StephenRothWriter
lucore said:
Right on! I’ve tried to enjoy Facebook more than once and failed dismally; it was miserable, wasteful and accomplished basically nothing. Seems to be more of an anti-social network that ruins society. Still have an account but haven’t logged in since Fall 2015 (I don’t even remember what’s on my page anymore); I might be locked out now and according to the news they would require an official ID to get back in which I wouldn’t do anyway. Nice try Mr Zuckerberg; he needs to do better than that if people think he’s so smart. Not impressed.
MARIE DEBOVE-SMITH said:
I completely agree.
Michael said:
Absolutely! Couldn’t agree with you more!
Dana said:
Facebook has started suspending conservatives accounts for 30 days to interfere with the Elections!
Steve said:
Facebook, you can’t even say your opinion without getting kicked off.
Leslie Paternoster said:
I hate Facebook I have been trying to get all my data and pix off. One guy told me I had to go to Walgreens and buy an iTunes card and then he can help me. Sounds like a class action suit can be made what they are doing is a crime
Darren Mark Horton said:
ahmen
Matt said:
Aside from the warnings way back in 2007 in PC magazine and wired that Facebook would abuse and overtly decimate peoples identity data once it felt the time was right, they do a very poor job at spam control and ROI on advertising spends. Russia has used social media for facial recognition and government enforcement all over their cities. Smart people in Russia know not to reveal their identity to social networks where “you are the product”
DON’T EVER TRUST FACEBOOK!
If any one of their thousands of Algorithms triggers a flag on any account, they will disable your account with no warning. All business contacts, advertisement campaigns, and personal messages will be inaccessible. you will enter an endless cycle of submitting your ID to some anal retentive jerk like “Riley in Community Operations” who will send you a canned response without any consideration of the damage they are doing, and cause you so much pain that you’d wish you migrated any traction off their platform. It’s a total disaster for our business and I cannot express how much time and energy we have lost.
Don’t be a victim – Don’t use facebook for any long term business endeavors! Move your data and users off the platform as much as possible. Get your users contact info directly. Don’t spend money on facebook advertising because they will bury any promotional effort thereafter without paying more. Just like the mob when they come to shakedown the honest shop keeper. Heed my warning!
“facebook advertising”, “facebook account disabled”
D said:
Yep, I know exactly who you are via Facebook, are you that paranoid?
I'm Serious said:
That damn “suggested friend” make me sick as hell! And “friend to friend”-thing has been haunted me!
Captinfish said:
they close your account but they keep sending you shit all the time and I have no reason to close the account in the first place
Duncan F said:
Hi. I enjoyed your article, although I would suggest that Reasons 1 and 3 through 9 should go under the title 8 Amazing Reasons Why People Suck on Facebook. I actually was inspired to seek out an article related to your title because Facebook really does suck in amazing ways these days, and for reasons completely apart from the lame actions of its users. Anyway, should you decide to revisit this concept – and clearly I’m just abusing your comment feed here. I mean, you published this two years ago and have likely moved on, but I need to get this out – here are my top two beefs with Facebook as it is today:
#1- Copyright; full marks to the Facebook team for identifying copyright infringement so effectively (seriously, it’s almost a form of magic), but then why not go a step further and help people who just want to lay down a familiar track to their wedding video – or whatever – understand that there is a reason for copyright, and furthermore, a process for licensing material, and then some direction on what that process is. Maybe Facebook could call their friends in the music publishing industry and get them to help, although I realise asking one set of corporate douchebags to engage another set of corporate douchebags for the benefit of the little people is probably not a realistic demand. I tried to figure it out on my own, and after a few wasted hours just sidestepped the whole process and embedded a Vimeo link to a video with unlicensed music, which will probably work right up until it doesn’t.
#2: the feed algorithim. I have, like, 742 “friends”, but my feed is populated by about the same twelve people every time because Facebook has decided that these are the people I want to hear from today, tomorrow, forever, and screw the thoughts and ideas of everyone else I pretend to know on this thing. It’s annoying af, and completely narrows the Facebook experience, which could instead be broadening. So yeah, screw it: I hate Mark Zuckerberg as the face of this corporation that will one day wind up the victim of disruption by some other social network… but until that day, thanks for listening.
John Bevan said:
Great article. The main reason I left Facebook is that the company has no customer service. No phone number, no email address – nada. A friend of mine had his account stolen last month and he has been completely unable to find a solution. Not hacked, mind you, STOLEN. Someone in Russia simply took over his account and all he can do now is view his old FB page as a visitor. He can’t contact Facebook and find out how to retrieve his account and the only recourse is to visit some “community help” pages that are 4 years old in some cases and therefore totally unhelpful.
Who would deal with a brick and mortar company that had no customer service? And the one who came up with Facebook is a billionaire now?? It would be laughable if it weren’t sad.
Anyway, I’m out and I hope others follow suite.
MARIE DEBOVE-SMITH said:
WELL SAID !!!
Ian said:
kudos dor the article..coukd not have said it better myself..When people ask me what is FB i tell them its a collage of junk on 1 screen..FB and twitter make me puke..what a waste of time for nothing…i prefer to red a how to book..lol..cheers
Jill said:
Yeah in 2017 I deleted my Facebook I’ve never felt better. It was waisting my time. I’m free. I just didn’t care about what people were saying on there. It was so annoying to wake up to about ten puppy shared videos a day. Their cute but I’d rather do something else on the internet then that. I wear glasses even being blurry in the morning doesn’t help with looking up the internet. So I needed a new routine. grrrr. So while I had a bad cold I decided to leave Facebook. Best decision ever. 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
PATRICIA PORCELLO said:
The election brought out such venom and hatred from people that I had just re-connected after 33 years. It was our classes HS reunion, and up until last November, I did not have a FB page, I thought wow, I can now say hi to people I have not spoken with in all these years. Then I start reading the hatred and truly scary comments from my former classmates, even a former boyfriend of what he wants to do to all people who do not vote for Trump. I made the mistake of engaging the worst of them and trying to talk logic to them about diversity and having a difference of opinion is a good thing, a healthy debate is just that. They swarmed against me with the most vile comments posted directly to only me on my timeline, threats, and then I’m thinking, I remember why I stopped bothering with these idiots back in HS. If they are still interacting with people in a toxic manner at our age, I have not missed out on much in the way of friendship with them. It’s sad that most of them are in the same clicks that we had back when I was 17, they have not grown out of them, nor have they become better people. I didn’t miss them for 33 years, I don’t think I will miss them for the next 33 years.
jon said:
Can I write a comment?
jon said:
Ok Facebook (and Google) is a fad, soon to go away. The coding is not good, and hard to remember where to press what. It has become too crowded, and all I wanted is to see how my friends are doing. They push new stuff to make it more exciting, but it has become too complicated.
Jack said:
Interesting reading. Not what I was looking for. There are reasons why Facebook really suck due to their management of Facebook users and wrongful actions against it’s members. I’ve stopped using Facebook due to their fascist dictatorship and pathetic lack of communication skills. All you have to do is message them and say something about someone true or false to get their account disabled without question. Facebook disable your account without bringing an allegation to you and asking for your response. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Do you not have a right, as a matter of common respect and decency, to know what you’re being accused of? How about even allowing for a means of dialogue between Facebook and those with disabled accounts to talk about whatever? Facebook is an Internet social medium that is requesting passport, driver licence or other photographic identification before they will enter a dialogue. This is uncouth and I have been told that details provided by such requests have resulted in identity fraud. Yes I sent a photo of my passport to another social platform, the only time I’ve ever done such. One year later, apparently I’m in the USA and Europe simultaneously. Caution about sending such documentation to everyday Joe’s like those working at Facebook. Also there are better social platforms out there where opinion nazis don’t manage your free will. Imagine a social platform where free will is just that? Facebook suck big time and I strongly suggest finding a more reputable platform. Facebook are corrupt to the core and doctor your opinions to be in line with their own political agenda.
Brian said:
Hey, some people hate democrats too, by the way. That’s the main reason I deleted my account. The obvious liberal slant that Suck-a-turd and his global minions are forcing on us made me realize that Facebook is something that I can no longer support…
Dave Mazz said:
My biggest gripe with Facebook is that many sites require to have a Facebook account and “sign in” in order to make a comment. Why do I have to have a Facebook account to tell someone that their art needs a lot of work, or they might
have a different opinon of a fatal Canadian canoe expedition if they knew, and talked to, someone who was actually there. Facebook may have a place in today’s society, but I can’t see what it is.
Nicky said:
I can say this, Facebook is a JOKE and I hope they go the same way Myspace went.
Scott Howard said:
I shut down my Facebook account the other day, after yet another attempt to put my preferred name Emily in front of my legal name. From the day I first built the site, I entered Emily as the birth name & (old name) as the nickname, & it came out the other way around. So the last time, I was up half the night, at it again, when the whole page layout changed & it had this crap on the left, the usual posts & things down the center, & People You May Know/ads/junk/more ads on the right. The posts were half the screen width, which made everything tiny. Then I noticed a new sequence to the posts: Instead of just posts, it was: About 5-6 posts, “Suggested Post” (College Bratspeak for “ad”), a few more posts, then People You May Know, none of whom I know. Repeat ad eternum. I don’t even care about 99% of the posts I get from people about every flippin meal they eat, their kids, or 7000 pictures of the same damn beach in Cancun. Oh, & all the lefty shit about Trump being all four Horsemen of the Apocalypse & a demented clown combined, & all the righty shit about Obama being the same. And when I looked at their help site under Go back to the old home page layout, the general attitude was, You’ll eat it & like it, now fuck off. I found the Shut Down instructions far more helpful, & used those instead. Happy Girl. I hope this helps other Facebook burnouts. Have a lovely day.
SusanB said:
Nope, you were correct in your title. Facebook sucks. In fact, it borders on being evil.
Mats and Pats said:
that’s why I created this – http://www.matsandpats.com – sorry for the plug but I was feeling as you and it was disappointing – it just got so ugly so, I figured i’d try and be part of the solution and create a “nicer” way of engaging? here’s hoping! thx for articulating my reasons for leaving Facebook so succinctly, ur spot on with this article:)
Mark said:
Bang on!!!Deleted facebook long back…..Many friends and family members going the same way
Raul Lunia said:
It really sucks. as there are elections coming in Estonia, and there is no other way to ask questions or contact the candidates than, only if you login to Facebook (I call it Suckerbook)
nikoviitala said:
I got banned from Facebook permanently. Pisses me off. I made http://www.facebook-banned.com to get them to realise how Facebook should be improved.
sue hass said:
it had to come to this……….it seemed ultimately about the users ego being stroked. taking pictures of you dinners. kids, grandkids. i never thought it was a good idea. remember the challenge. that was just a chance for my neighbors to stand by their pools and show them off. really do we need facebook.
Dolly said:
This article is retarded. Nothing insightful has been stated. Just repeading a bunch of stuff we have heard before. Be original!
Mats and Pats said:
Well said! I completely agree:)
Devil said:
The conservatives destroy the country? How? did they open the borders to bring in millions of illegals? Did they raise the taxes and drove businesses in bankruptcy? Did they attack people for their political beliefs outside Bernie/Hillary rallies?
Nope, that was YOU, your side is the problem of USA and you are those that need to be fixed and guess what, Trump is making America great again.
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Cowl said:
The tenth reason is easy. All mentioned are great top ten reasons why Facebook sucks but another is how the somehow share very horrific videos of animal abuse. I just seen one today from a thug in Iraq that punched a young dog to death while it was sitting in the seat by him in his car. Sick and very sad. He was laughing and loving it. I for one am not gonna be one he looks at all the shares and gets more of asick enjoyment. Another time a few years ago someone else was cutting the ears off their dog while it sniffed at the amputated ears on ground and ran off very sick as of today I tried to delete account but could only get it deactivated. These idiots are not policing what is posted. Just raking in the money. Kids bullying each other too do sad. FACEBOOK SUCKS
Ian Gardener said:
Facebook seems to have a highly paid team dedicated to making the platform worse at least once a month. Of course the company was created by a thief who ripped off someone else’s idea then shafted his own partners.
german ginger god said:
Left fb years ago. Had 256 friends. ALL ADULTS. Tried having adult conversations, “tried” being the key word. So I set out to use fb as science experiment, which, if none of you know or have not been told, is what fb simply is. A social science experiment. (someone is monitoring everything you do on fb, to learn your behaviour)
Well, at first it was merely a site to spite those who broke your heart. Watch the movie and you’ll come to the same conclusion. So what did I learn?
Fb is totally transparent. And so are 99% of everyone who joins it.
You wanna know why? Because no one who’s married and has kids will tell you what happens behind closed computer screens. Frankly I’m more curious as to who these people are once they go off-line. Oh wait, no one turns their internet off anymore. And you wonder why you have no privacy.
Why are fb people reluctant to share why their kid misbehaves and what they did to remedy the problem? Wouldn’t you love to hear that someone else’s kid has the same problem as yours and did something about it?
I see, you don’t want anyone getting the impression that all of your are just horrible parents hiding behind a computer screen, afraid of being called out on what you post.
Because you have no answers? It’s EMBARASSING pretending to be something you’re not? You don’t want your mother-in-law who lives in Alabama to know exactly what you think about that state?
Facebook could, COULD be a learning tool on how to work through problems from all facets of life. All it takes is honesty.
How should I punish my daughter for dictating when she’s going to bed?
How do I figure out that my daughter is learning techniques from other daughters knowing that the argument of going to bed delays the inevitable? Are my kids ideas theirs, or are outside forces trying to undue the rules I set for that child?
Well, I’m not married and don’t have kids.
And if I were to use fb as a motivator to ever want either of those specific scenarios, uhmmmm….
Going back to the embarrassment. How horrible is it that people continue to post “GOD BLESS AMERICA” or “USA #1”, yet cannot give one good reason when confronted why god does that, or what exactly makes us #1.
Education. Healthcare. America is neither #1 in those categories. And if you’ve managed to handle those categories with ease, then share your wisdom with the rest of us.
I’ll give you wisdom, stop having kids.
Don’t get married.
Don’t ever put yourself in a position where you have no research to back up the crap you build on the internet. First, you look dumb. Then you aggravate people for not knowing your shit, which leaves you the only option of, “well, it’s what I believe.” Guess what? Your teachers growing up didn’t care. Why would I? I’d have loved to be in an education system where “it’s what I believe” gave you straight A’s.
Fb isn’t stupid, dumb, boring, or any of those things. It’s like saying the google search engine site is dumb. No, it’s waiting for you to make a move. And that’s what gives fb the identities of dumb, boring etc….
Let’s get something straight, fb is only doing what every other site does…..exist by exploiting our attraction/addiction to computer screens.
I do have one question for the masses, what did you do before social media?
How many times did you contemplate suicide having to wait for anything that that handheld device does instantly?
Btw, I left facebook because Tory Enfremenko who I went to high school with told me I was addicted to it. That might be very true, at one point. But it’s been at least 4 yrs and what I was addicted to was seeing my beautiful comments whether people commented on them or not. I just really liked reading my comments because half the time I made shit up and was wondering if anyone was paying attention to the shit.
The last year of my fb-ing was to entertain myself. I simply did not care about GETTING any comments whatsoever. Sound strange? Not when you and your 4 friends became the most popular people halfway through their freshmen year
Lucky for me the internet is not a lie detector. Hmm, something about that sentence strikes me as profound. And I don’t do that everyday.
Luke said:
This site ruined my life.
Shvshdg said:
Go to vkontakte! Facebook is the worst!!!
Ashraf said:
facebook has been reviewing my id for months, it was reported by someone, because i wrote my name in russian language. it is so easy to destroy someone’s id by reporting.
Andy said:
Maybe Facebook is not to blame.
In my country we have a saying that can be literally translated to something like this: “Don’t blame the pig, blame the person who feeds it”.
What this basically means is that if people keep using Facebook, if people keep oversharing, if people keep taking selfies, if people are insecure and need some form of validation to feed their narcissistic needs, well, Facebook will just keep allowing that.
If people stopped posting and only used Facebook to chat with friends, sooner or later Facebook would be converted into a messaging app; no need to spend money maintaining all of the other features.
Obviously, this is not the case, as there are tons of narcissistic and insecure people around; Facebook is an amazing tool for them, which provides them with an endless stream of narcissistic supply (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_supply).
20 years ago there were lots of insecure people as well, the difference was that you had to listen to them, or distance yourself from them in an obvious way. Now, thanks to Facebook, you don’t have to listen to them anymore, and they don’t even know about it.
Monkey Boy 207 said:
Whoever created Facebook should have their head chopped off, then have their head put on a spear for public display!
RequiredName said:
FB wants a government ID, DNA, and a viable egg or sperm sample. Too intrusive?
Ross said:
There’s just something…off, about feeling the need to have your picture and personal details advertised to the world. Your friends know
what you look like, what school you went to and where you work.. Right? So who exactly is it for the benefit of?
Then there’s just something inherently sad and pathetic about feeling the need to achieve ‘likes’ (read:validation) on pictures. Validation from whom may I ask.. Oh yes, from 50 or so of those 680 people who fall under the categories of: work acquaintance, neighbourhood acquaintance, old friend (read, person who is not your real friend anymore), family and then maybe 5 actual friends.
Let’s be real here, nobody gives a damn about their neighbours kids birthday, or their old school friends cake. It’s all just mindless tit for tat, you scratch my back, I scratch yours, likes, for the sake of validation… Maybe if I like Susan’s inspired quote she will be one of the people who likes my next profile pic and I will feel a sense of purpose in life. Maybe if I add my milkman from when I was 12, and 100 random people, I will feel like I have friends.
Not for me sorry. I can happily admit I have very few friends, am completely comfortable with how I look and if I use to hang with you but don’t anymore, keep your dog pics to yourself.
Did I mention, the data mining, fake news, ads, brainwashing, underhand political influences and benal memes?
endermamix said:
A lot of these reasons aren’t purely just Facebook, but the social medias in general, and what Facebook can’t improve.
What is REALLY the worst thing with Facebook ITSELF is with the horrible personal spam “People you may know” that you can’t diasble, forcing you to disable all the Facebook app notifications and don’t get important notifications.
Another point is that in mobile, you have already to download the heavy 200MB FB app, but you still can’t get messages and have to download another heavy app, Messenger! And if you want to use a browser to use Facebook on your phone, you still cant write messages! What a shame!
shinedowness said:
The reasons why Facebook sucks:
1. Degenerate Facebook support when you need to get something fixed but you can’t understand what Facebook is asking you to do when there is no human helping you on Facebook.
2. Facebook lies to you by saying you don’t need a phone number to have a Facebook account. That’s false. If you do something so-called suspicious on Facebook according to the autistic robot system that Facebook has, your Facebook account will be locked until you enter a valid phone number or you will never be able to get back into your Facebook account unless you enter a valid phone number.
3. Your news feed on Facebook will encourage confirmation bias based on what you like, which encourages people’s echo chambers to be fed at the expense of butchering a person’s potential maturity to be a critical thinker if that person becomes egotistically blind to reality.
4. There is no democracy on Facebook, and there is extreme censorship on Facebook. Expressing opinions, humor, showing the swastika symbol even though it looks like the Nazi symbol, etc. are all extremely censored. Meaning Facebook holds people’s Facebook accounts at gunpoint if those people try to do free speech. Which is why people have left Facebook to go to other social media places to voice their opinions, humor, and other things. Facebook is no longer a place for intellectual free speech but for excessively butthurt extremists to harass people into silence. The swastika symbol is part of an Indian religion, but Facebook gets rid of it as much as possible, meaning Facebook is getting rid of religious free speech. Meaning Facebook is playing extreme favoritism for the Christianity symbol over the Indian religion’s swastika symbol. Facebook does not support religious equality.
Debbie said:
I have a small business Facebook account. Since last week I cannot view my newsfeed nor can I access anything on it! I can post…I think? I use this media as a platform as I rescue and rehabilitate dogs. But it certainly isn’t helping me now if I cannot access anything! There needs to be a number to call not all those damn help instructions! . None of them eleven closely pertain to the issues I’m having.Very aggravating…
Rob Spurlock said:
How about contacting customer support, that’s a solid reason Facebook sucks! You can never get through to people to help! They took $100s from me by not responding to my concerns. They kept charging me for boosting articles that I didn’t want boosted until I have to cancel any credit card attached to the service. Now I can’t stop stupid Facebook messenger messages from that cursed ThigsLife game. Message after message after message and I can’t stop them even though I have removed and blocked the game
Gary said:
Facebook is a Controlled Fake Media outlet, who will Totally Control what you have to say.
This is called communism at its best.
Green Cappy said:
Do you really think a company with half a trillion dollars net worth is “communist”? 😂😂🤣🤣 Do you even know what communism is? Something you don’t like isn’t communism.
Tom smith said:
Facebook thinks that by giving me a 7 day time out..I’m going to change the way I think and what I believe…fuck you Facebook!
nameless one said:
Can’t seem to make up your mind, can you?