Ok, world, I’m on Facebook.  Are you happy now?

So I finally joined because I’ve been a little out of the loop with events being planned on Facebook.  I still remain staunchly anti-Facebook but not so much as to miss parties because of it.

My problems with Facebook are as follows:

1.  The signal to noise ratio is really high.  Friend requests from people who I went to high school with but never talked to and things like that.  If anyone I actually interact with wants to get in touch with me they probably have my email address or phone number or both.  If they don’t have those things and don’t know anyone they can get them from, the chances I’m actually interested in the communication we’re going to have on Facebook are extremely small.  I guess I’m a little antisocial, but that’s how I feel.

2.  Faux privacy.  People set things up so that only their friends can see their pictures.  If there are any pictures there you’d be worried about a future employer seeing, well guess what Facebook’s security isn’t good enough to stop them from getting in.  You shouldn’t ever post anything on the internet unless it’s ok with you if EVERYONE can see it.  Iif it’s ok for everyone to see it, wouldn’t it be better to put the photos on flickr or picasa, so that your grandparents who probably don’t have a Facebook profile can see them easily?

3.  It creates drama.  I hate drama.  I don’t think I need to explain this further.

So hopefully I can manage to maintain a minimal presence there and allow people the convenience of getting in touch with me that way, and try to avoid the rest of it.