Why I quit Facebook

The “for all” network

My main reason for abandoning the most popular social network of all is rather simple. In today’s world time is becoming more and more valuable. Almost all of us are chasing that crazy deadline, moving from one office to another or just working around the clock. In the precious moments that I have for myself and decide to go look around in the social medias I am welcomed by sites like Google+, Twitter, Facebook and so on.

The only problem is that Facebook has become somewhat of a tangled mess of personal nonsense from people that I don’t really care about that much. Users tend to post and share everything, and when I say it like that I really do mean everything; from what they’ve eaten, where they slept, where they parked their car, who they accidentally bumped into while on their way to the office bathroom and so on. And there I am, scrolling down in my Facebook mobile application looking for something of actual value. Speaking about the application, it requires way too much permissions. Ten or twenty minutes later I just give up and press the home button.

Frankly, Facebook just fails at doing what it was meant to do: bringing people together.

Friends

For some odd reason Facebook thinks that we’re all friends with equal preferences to each other and that I would like to share everything with everybody. Sadly, the real story in life is far, far away from the fairy tale presented to us by the social giant. I can barely tolerate a huge amount of the people I have to deal with daily, and that’s not only me, but I am somehow “compelled” to have them as friends, just because I have to keep in contact. I have to admit that they did try to remedy the situation a bit by adding some options to other users, like the “Acquaintances” one, but honestly, I just don’t have the time to go through all my “friends” and set them individually. Furthermore, it still uses the same “friends” method when you add a new user, instead of asking you what type of a connection you have with the said user. That defeats the purpose of adding the option in the first place, right? This plays a huge role for the problem that I mentioned in the beginning of the article. If you’re going to do something, do it right, not half way through. It’s simple as that, give people the option to chose at the most appropriate time, don’t hide it in some submenu. Design school, anyone?

Those are two major components at which Facebook just fails miserably compared to it’s competition. By my opinion the only thing that the social network still has going for it is the vast number of people who are using it.