Facebook and me

I have had a Facebook account for some time, but I don't really use it for anything. I cannot see what is it that draws people in using Facebook. In Facebook I haven't done really anything else than clicked the accept button for friends requests. Maybe it would be more fun if I would be more active with it, but it makes it so hard. Basically everything that I can do in Facebook I can do in some other place of Internet, but better. For me Facebook feels like limited playground version of Internet and I don't want that.

When logged into Facebook it has little box asking "What's on your mind?" And people seem to tell it, and then I can see it also. What I see is bunch of worthless text. It's like endless amount of small talk that goes nowhere. I have that enough on Twitter, but Twitter has more good stuff and there I follow people whose text I want to read, in Facebook I follow people I know. Maybe Facebook has some filter where you can friend someone so you can see his profile, but block the updates to your feed.

In Facebook one can share interesting link. But I can do it also with Twitter and Delicious, and those are not limited to just my friends. With pictures same thing as with everything. There are lots of good Internet image-hosting sites that I can use, so no need for Facebook.

One big thing with Facebook for me is that it is so focused around the friends system. When I put something in Internet I'm willing to put in in place where everyone can see it. And if I want to share something with only certain people I can do it sharing it personally, using e-mail or instant messengers. I have no reason for putting things in Facebook where the group seeing it is limited, but not as much as I want in certain situations.

And then there is groups and applications. Shortly, not interested, do not need. Also there might be other things that I didn't mention, and don't even know about, well can't be anything that cloud get me hooked on Facebook so I ignore it.