FaceLIFT

What is one of the first things you do in the morning? I bet atleast half, if not all of us, check our facebook.

Now, don't get me wrong, I enjoy facebook and I check it daily. But sometimes, it just irritates me! The little things on/about facebook that simply could just be better

Facebook needs a facelift.

'People You May Know' - in other words, people you may know, but not well enough to be friends with. Put simply, if you haven't found your friend yet and they haven't found you, then you probably aren't even friends in the first place.

'Mini Feed' - yeah, cause we need reminders of things we have recently done or said. Thank you facebook but if it's important enough, I can remember those things without help.

'Bathing Suit Profile Pictures' - yes, you are young and skinny and probably fake and bake at a tanning salon, we get it. But we can observe this without you having to post a picture of it for all America to see.

'Picture Takers' - the people that have 60 photo albums...60 ALBUMS! And so, on any given day, you can count on these people to post atleast 10 pictures of their lives to their profile.

'People Who Spend Too Much Time on Facebook' - they totally take over my news feed with 12 different whiny status updates (so and so is still in love with her, so and so wishes she knew how this feels, and so on and so forth)

'People Who Update Facebook with Every Minute of Their Lives' - so and so is sleeping, so and so is eating cheese, so and so is standing in line at the store....I DONT CARE!

'Constant Layout Changes' - granted, change is needed to prevent staleness, but sometimes things need to be left alone. Just as the frustration dies down from one design, the site changes again. What's the difference between news feed and live feed? And why can't facebook remember which I prefer??

'No Dislike Button' - if there are going to be such things dominating my page like Mafia Wars and Farmville, there MUST be a dislike button.

'The Let Me Tell You Every Detail of My Day Bore' - which kind of goes with the one above, but I guess Im mentioning it again because it is TRULY a pet peeve. So and so is waking up, so and so had wheaties for breakfast, so and so is bored at work, so and so is stuck in traffic...your kidding! How fascinating! Really? I care about you, but I don't need a play by play.

'The Self Promoter' - there is a difference between letting others know what's going on in your life and dominating facebook with your biography.

'The Friend Padder' - no one has more than 500 [real] friends...if they do, then that's just showing off.

'The Town Crier' - "Michael Jackson is dead!" These people are the reason many of us learn of breaking news not from TV or news sites but from online social networks.

'The TMIer' - some things, just need to not be proclaimed to the world of facebook.

'The Bad Grammarian' - "So sad about Fara Fauset but Im so gladd its friday yippe". Yes, I know the punctuation rules are different in the digital world. And, no, no one likes a spelling Nazi...but please, get it right.

'The Sympathy Baiter' - there is a difference between genuine bad news and people with hopes of gaining concerned responses just to boost there self esteem. So and so is feeling sad today, so and so is glad that's over, so and so could use some good news right about now. You know what I mean?

'The Lurker' - the one who never updates their status or writes on your wall, yet you can randomly be talking and they will bring something up about one of your past posts. So really, you know they're on your page...STALKER! Or, even worse, you walk by someone who is on your page just staring at it...that is awkward as well. Also, they may be sitting right alongside you while you are both on facebook and read almost everything on your page out loud to you...really, I know what happened in my life today you don't have to remind me.

'The Crank' - there isn't anything they CAN'T complain about. I'm sorry that your life is terrible, but in reality it probably isn't as bad as you think it is...it could be a lot worse.

'The Paparazzo' - the person that posts pictures you SPECIFICALLY told them not to post or posts pictures of you that you didn't even realized existed.

'The Philosopher' - the person who has the deepest statuses (or the annoying, sappy, sad lines from various country songs) that no one understands and better yet they have to comment under their own status to further their previous status...enough is enough! Plus, half of the world doesn't even know what you are talking about in all of your status deepness.

'The Chronic Inviter' - support my cause, sign my petition, play Mafia Wars with me, which 'Star Trek' character are you?, here are the top 5 cars I have personally owned, here are 25 things about me, here's a drink; what drink are you?, We're related!, I took the what president are you? quiz and so should you! These people probably mean well, but stop; just stop...can't we simply just be friends and have normal conversations without having to add a million applications to take pointless quizzes and compare ourselves to others and try to beat someone else's IQ? Thanks

Now, do not feel offended if you feel yourself fit into one of the above categories; I still love you, you are still my friend, and I know that you meant no harm at all. It's just, when done in excess, it kind of bothers me...if you couldn't tell ;)