Facebook is evil..

Why do I say Facebook is evil? Well, there are many reasons…

I was talking to a friend about Facebook yesterday, and she told me she was becoming more and more sure that when we go back to Costa Rica (we are both exchange students in the United States), she would close her account. Why? Because, among other things, every day she finds that one more person she did not want to see again is a member of Facebook.

This is true: the ever growing popularity of Facebook makes it so that almost “everyone” is there: the high school “friend” you did not want to see ever again, the ex-boyfriend who keeps stalking you, the aunt that always reports everything you post back to your mother… All the different species that reside in the FB biosphere.

In her case, the ex-boyfriend was truly reaching the “stalker” status. Because she had not deleted him from her friends list, he was still commenting on her pictures, posting on her wall, and reporting to her family about every new thing she uploaded or modified on her profile.


But this is not the only reason why. One of the most used features in FB is the photo upload. According to the web site web-strategist.com, 14 million photos are uploaded to FB every day. With these enormously high numbers, chances are that at least one of these photos involves you or one of your friends. When you start to think about it, is there really any sane reason why you would like to share with the rest of the world, forever and ever, the memory of that party when you got really drunk? Or the weird faces your friends convince you to do? Sure, it might be fun for a while, but how are you going to feel about that when you do not get that job because of the pictures you appear on? Or even 10 to 20 years from now when your kids ask you about them?


Finally, I think my main reason to say Facebook is evil would be that, despite all of these negative sides, I still find myself checking FB at least 4 times a day, and I’m sure I am not going to close my account any time soon…