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I HATE facebook.

I made an account out of “cultural pressure”, I realized not having one was making me from a “different generation”!

Anyhow, since the day I opened my account till now – I see the site useless… it just helps you know about the people you know, and spy: so who know’s who?

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I’ve managed to keep in slightly better contact with him than before, and have reconnected with a few old friend thought lost.

I ignore a lot of applications too, now, except for “Attack” (a Risk clone) which I play with my brother and friends. Scrabulous (a Scrabble clone), also has many fans.

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I use Facebook for work a lot – crew and casting calls, sharing project news, gathering feedback and comments and keeping people informed of the latest. I also use it a lot to share that which I find important or engaging to me with my friends on my profile. I regularly get a message from someone who says that something I posted was useful to them.

In a nutshell, I’ve found Facebook to be the easiest tool to date. It’s the personal website I never got around to. It’s the mailing list I never fully compiled. It’s the classifieds I never used. It’s the forum/chatroom without the unwanted others and noise. It’s the road to some causes I care for. It’s the multimedia site I never updated. It’s the promotional network I always shunned. It’s the focus group I never got round to maintaining. It’s the newsletter that shares what’s important to me with those who share a common ground. All is customizable and easy once you get past the test drive.

If you’re selective and give yourself a chance to discover what works for you, it eventually becomes really useful.

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i personally ignore all application requests. i have 700+ pending, but thats fine. I used to click ignore on them one by one, but now i really cant be bothered. they just pile up by themselves in one corner of the screen and i dont even notice them anymore.

facebook is good for staying in touch with people; i have friends in the US, UK, UAE, etc. hell, i have people in bahrain i lost touch with, but with facebook, you can send them a message straight away without having to look for their email, or find out whether theyve updated it or not, and so on. and replies are usually quick, so its a great social tool. use it as you will…

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7375772.stm

i simply removed all of the 3rd party applications, if anyone wants to send me a msg of some sort im sure he can find a more creative way other than using a facebook application to do so.
if you dont like any of the 3rd party application (not developed by facebook itself) then you can block them all and not get any invitations by editing your prviacy settings, go to privacy –> applications —-> click on edit the applications page and remove all of the 3rd party applications.
go back to the applications page in the privacy section then go to the 2nd tab in the page named other applications. now choose ‘Do not share any information about me through the Facebook API’ and you are all set. if you have a lot of invitations requests in your requests page then just open the requests page and you should see ‘ignore all’ on the top right.

and if you don’t like to see 200 applications on one of your friends you can simply install a greasemonkey script that would remove all of those 3rd party apps and keep the original ones. just search for greasemonkey + facebook +script in google and you’ll find them.

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