Better the Devil you know...

Who else here hates FaceBook?

I mean intellectually, obviously, since someone who is addicted to something can't be said to truly hate that thing. It's soul destroying. It's the ultimate tool of procrastination - yup, I reckon it's way up there with MMORPG's and sex for most chosen ways to avoid work. Not that I'm comparing the two, let's face it, one is clearly better than the other. How many women let you be a Level 80 Death Knight and go around killing stuff while you're in bed? Exactly. No comparison.

Facebook breeds discontent. It breaks people up, it allows people to lie to their loved ones without anyone knowing, it kills people's will to live, it depresses people, it makes people fail their degree, people get turned down or fired from jobs because of it.

And yet everyone loves it and signs on everyday in the hope of receiving a new notification or two. Some people, so desperate are they for affection, live on Facebook. They inhabit Facebook chat like it was a second home where everyone loves them. They neglect real social contact because someone *might* come online.

ARGH.

I have discovered, through much boredom and pained research, that the only real way to get Facebook to entertain you is to entertain it; you have to write on other people's walls, or send them a message, or add your own photos or whatever before you get the begged-for notification/wall post/message/vampire invitation.

For the record, I do not want to be a vampire/ninja/turtle/slave/mystery date/star trek fanatic/WoW lover/anti-facebook protestor/anything else that requires an application. I went through that stage and came out the other side. I want to separate the now-me to the then-me and never have anything to do with any facebook application ever again. They only eat away at your life even more than the rest of Facebook and they make your friends hate you.

So I'm going back to hard drugs, alcoholism and possibly branching out into kidnapping. These are intellectual pursuits - mostly - and will allow me to meet new people, discover new things, hopefully make some money and worst case scenario I'll get some exercise if things go wrong.

I would say you couldn't do that on Facebook but I know there's a kidnap application as some guy I barely talk to keeps trying to steal me away to Athens for no apparent reason and I'm fairly sure there'll be a RAPE! application some time soon. That cannot be a good example for small kids.