{"id":1063,"date":"2012-03-29T19:25:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/?page_id=1063"},"modified":"2012-03-29T19:25:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:25:35","slug":"facebook-issues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/spring-2012-issue\/opinion-and-humour\/facebook-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Devan Wang<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would like to start\u00a0 this article by letting you know that I have a Facebook account, just<br \/>\nlike 600 million other users. I\u2019ve had an account for a little over two years<br \/>\nnow. I log on quite often, usually go on to catch up with old friends who I don\u2019t<br \/>\nsee very often, because I\u2019ve moved around a lot. I use Facebook the way it was<br \/>\nintended to, to see what my friends are doing. Now, I would like to say, that<br \/>\nthere are a lot of issues among users on Facebook. And when I say a lot, I mean<br \/>\nA LOT! Some are good, some are bad, and some are just \u00a0annoying. I would like to address them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday<\/strong><strong> Night Jersey Shore Statuses: <\/strong>Now, I\u2019m<br \/>\npretty sure we all know what Jersey shore is, unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock for the past 3 years. But really, is there actually a need to update your status every Thursday night saying \u201cWOOOOTTT!!! IT\u2019S T SHIRT TIME!!!\u201d?\u00a0 Honestly, every Thursday night, my news feed gets clogged up with these kinds of updates. We all know that Jersey Shore is on at 10pm on Thursday evenings. IT\u2019S BEEN LIKE THAT FOR THREE YEARS! WE ALL KNOW ALREADY!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name Changes:<\/strong> Second on our list is another thing that angers me deeply. Name Changes. Now, I\u2019m not talking about a guy named Edward changing his facebook name to Eddy. I\u2019m talking about a guy named Jason changing his name to Thatkidd Outtogetdatmoney Istayonmygrindallday. Believe me, you don\u2019t know how many of my facebook friends do that. It\u2019s confusing too, because I don\u2019t know who is who when they show up on my newsfeed. At one point, I had a Facebook friend who\u2019s name was D-swaggz Youknowwhoitis Shoutouttomyhaterstheyaremymotivatorsandilovethem. No, frankly, I don\u2019t know who it is. It doesn\u2019t help when you\u2019re covering your face in your profile picture either. If you changed your Facebook name to your actual name, then<br \/>\nmaybe I would. Tsk-tsk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TAGS:<\/strong> This is one of the most abused features on Facebook. When you tag someone in a photo, that person ACTUALLY has to be in the photo! The other day a girl tagged me in a photo of her. Guess what she tagged me as? Her elbow. I removed the tag immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook Games: <\/strong>Like I said earlier, Facebook is for seeing what your friends are up to. It\u2019s not for raising a virtual farm or becoming a virtual mafia boss. \u201cJohn Smith just found an ugly duckling in need of a home!\u201d No one cares. Honestly, I just hate it when people invite me be their neighbour in Farmville, they just don\u2019t seem to get the message. If I wanted to play, I would be playing. I am constantly reminded of your games from my news feed that you continually clog up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wall to Wall Conversations: <\/strong>This is another thing that is extremely annoying. Facebook has a chat system and a messaging system. What do you do? You clog up the news feeds of every mutual friend you have in common with that person by starting a conversation on their wall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hashtags: <\/strong>Hashtags are intended to be used on Twitter. Not Facebook. According to the twitter website, \u201cPeople use the hashtag symbol <strong>#<\/strong> before relevant keywords in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets to show more easily in Twitter Search\u201d. Facebook doesn\u2019t have a Facebook search relevant to hashtags. Therefore, a hashtag is just a<br \/>\nwaste of a keystroke on Facebook, #thisisfacebooknottwitter!<\/p>\n<p><strong>People Who Update Their Statuses Constantly: <\/strong>Statuses<br \/>\nare supposed to express something special that happened in your life. For<br \/>\nexample, \u201c_________ got accepted into Harvard University!\u201d<br \/>\nNot ordinary experiences. Nobody cares if \u201c______ just ate a bag of Doritos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENTS:<\/strong> This is another big no-no. There are<br \/>\nsoooooo many people on Facebook marketing things. The other day one of my Facebook friends posted on my wall, \u201cyo bruh, check out my new remix! I got a movement goin on!\u201d Oh, you have a movement, do you? Well, you can MOVE your \u2018movement\u2019 off of my wall (shout out to spoken reasons for giving me that line)!<\/p>\n<p>Well, that just sums up my Facebook rant, aha! Hope you all<br \/>\nenjoyed my first article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devan Wang &nbsp; I would like to start\u00a0 this article by letting you know that I have a Facebook account, just like 600 million other users. I\u2019ve had an account for a little over two years now. 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