Peter Rising Dislikes this!

I sometimes feel like all I do is moan on this Blog (not that I have blogged much lately I hear you complain), but the title is Grumpy I.T. Bloke so I feel I must live up to my name.

So here is a rant about my top 10 things that really wind me up about Facebook;

1). Cryptic Status Updates.  When people put things in their status, and don't fully explain what they mean.  For example I have seen such things as "Hmmmmm", or "Someones coming off my Christmas card list".  How the bloomin heck I am supposed to know what you mean, or who you mean???  Be clearer!!!

2). Copy and Paste this as your status.  So many people do this, and what the heck is the point?  What good does it do?  A friend of mine put the below text in his status the other day as an obvious protest about the frequency of such nonsense and I had to laugh, as some of the things we are asked to repost sometimes are laughable;

PLEASE put this on your status if you know someone, or are related to someone who has been eaten by dragons. Dragons are nearly unstoppable and they can breathe fire. 93% of people won't copy and paste this, because they haven't been eaten by dragons or don't believe in dragons. 6% of people ...are sitting in the shower armed with fire extinguishers, whilst the remaining 1% are awesome and will repost this

3). Event Invites, Group Invites, and Cause Invites. Oh My God, Just leave me alone.

4). Asking to be friends with a very minor celebrity.  OK, being added to the friend list of someone who had 2 lines in Frasier about 16 years ago isn't in any way cool or clever.  Look at their friend list.  They have over 5000 friends.  It is not impressive in any way that you are one of them. They do not know you and do not care about you.

5). Deactivating and Reactivating your account.  Either be on Facebook or don't.  Just make up your bloomin mind!

6). Checking in.  It is slightly interesting to know that someone is at a particular restaurant or at the cinema.  However, why do I need to know when someone is at a garage, or on a bridge, or at Asda, on their sofa, or even has gone to bloomin bed?  Too far people!

7). Linking to Youtube.  To be fair, I have been known to do this myself to a certain extent if I like a particular song and want to share it.  However, the way it annoys me is when people almost seem to want recognition for their musical taste, almost as if they discovered the artist themself.  It's as if they are saying, look at this obscure non mainstream act that I know about and you don't.  Aren't I clever for knowing about this. 

8). Posting a backwards status.  This one crops up often and it is just unbelievable.  It basically is a piece of backwards text saying "lets see how many people figure this out and repost it as their own status".  Sigh!!

9). Farmville and the like.  OK, I hid Farmville a long time ago as I was sick being asked about it, and Texas Holdem Poker, and Bejeweled Blitz.  No sooner have you hidden one than 5 more such things appear though.  Fortune Cookies for example.  I just don't care!!

10).  Whining about change when a new version of Facebook is launched.  Honestly, the outrage whenever there is a new verison is astonishing.  Change happens, change is good.  Just embrace it!

And that's that.  Rant over.  I do love Facebook though - honest :-)