With the recent changes made to the newsfeed and an upcoming "face" lift to user's profiles, lovers of the beloved social network have been in an uproar saying things like: the changes are too much like Twitter, it's an invasion of privacy, it's annoying and it's just too much Facebook.
Too much Facebook? TOO. MUCH. FACEBOOK?
Let's face it, this has been a long time coming. There has been too much Facebook since September 2005, when Facebook opened the flood gates and launched a high-school version of the site.
And there was too much Facebook when they began churning out advertisements the following year.
And more recently, there was too much Facebook when "likes" were developed and you could "like" things such as "Yeah, I'm drunk", "I wonder if British people sit around all day trying to talk in an American accent", "Going to say something and mixing the two words together and sounding retarded" and "Aww, that's so sweet. How many other girls have you said that to?" (Oh yes. Believe it. Click here to see more.)
Let's not forget how Facebook (or too much of it) tends to ruin relationships, allows us to misinterpret status updates and stalk old exes, friends and everyone else.
But we can't really place all the blame on Mark Zuckerberg and his band of nerds. They've simply been staying up-to-date with the rapidly changing times; advancing and developing, just as any social network should.
Oh no. There is a force much greater than Zuckerberg that has been making Facebook...well...suck.
You.
Yes, that's right. All 800 million active Facebook users are the main contributors to the suckiness that is Facebook.
Why? Well, thanks to GQ, they have put together a hilarious (and quite truthful) list of the 18 Friends Who Make Facebook Annoying. (If you find you are not on this list, please consider yourself lucky and on to round 2.)
Some of the "highlights" from this list include:
These are our friends and, occasionally, these are actually us! The annoying people that make the new Facebook real-time "ticker" unbearable.
Why do I really need to know that your kid got stung by a bee and they cried? Or that your favorite inspirational quote is the same as mine? Sure, your baby is adorable! But for the past 9 months you've been clogging up my newsfeed with your ultrasounds. So no, I don't want to comment on another picture, thank you. Oh you were wasted last night? I couldn't tell from the 250+ pictures you ALREADY posted by 6am this morning and the cluster of drunk letters you tried to assemble into a coherent phrase. And please, PLEASE stop trying to make me guilty for not reposting your 3 paragraph long statuses.
If this is not enough evidence that we have ultimately created the "too much" of too much Facebook, then try this on for size.
Prior to Facebook's upgrades, Buzzfeed posted a little ditty on the 11 Things You Should Avoid in Your Profile Pictures. (For those of you who passed round 1, this is for you.)
The constant complaining about Facebook's changes and the people who jam up our precious newsfeed will probably never stop. The least we can do is laugh at ourselves and try to be part of the solution rather than part of the 800 million person problem.
Or we can just all join Google+.
Click here to read more about Buzzfeed's 11 Things, GQ's list, CNN's own annoying Facebookers and much more!
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