The loss of a friend.

Have you ever met one of those people that just seemed perfect? They could do anything, they looked attractive, they were social, awesome and fun to talk to and be with, but then they go and fuck everything up and you kind of feel bad for not sticking by their side in their time of need but in a way, it was all their fault and really. I had a friend like that, and their name was Facebook.

When I first made a Facebook, I thought it was shit. I made a Facebook back in the Myspace days, back when Myspace was still fairly popular but Facebook was kind of taking over, slowly. I thought that Myspace was so much better, so I stuck by his side, but then he crashed and burned when it tried to be too much like Facebook. Myspace introduced statuses, that were really shitty, and you could comment them but no one really did because they were just crap, and then Myspace had that little chat thing down the bottom, kind of like the one off Facebook that they copied, only shitter. Facebook chat is flawed enough as it is, but the Myspace one didn’t even work. Myspace was the cool, social kid, but they fucked themself up, and I soon fully converted to Facebook, of which I had no regrets.

Facebook was perfect; it had everything from Myspace, only done better and much, much more, and because I jumped on the Facebook band wagon late, everyone was already on it so I had like one hundred friends on my first day of Facebooking. I didn’t know how to use it at first, it just seemed so much more confusing than Myspace, but as I got it going it just got better, and once I worked everything out, it was so amazing, that it even took over Google as my home page. I soon became an addict and wouldn’t spend a moment letting a new post not be on the wall, always refreshing the news feed, and I would always be doing some irrelivent quiz to find out what the initials of my next love will be, or which flavour Cruiser I am. I then learned the annoyances of what I was doing, and became a more professional Facebooker, I didn’t publish all the quizzes I did because I realised they just cluttered everyone’s news feed with shit that they didn’t care about, and I didn’t post links to every slightly funny video that I saw on YouTube, I was on it a fair bit, but I wasn’t constantly doing things.

I remember thinking; will there be a next step on from Facebook? Everyone moved from Myspace to Facebook, what’s from stopping people from moving on from Facebook to the next thing when everyone gets sick of it, and what will that next thing be? I thought, and hoped, that there wouldn’t be a new thing and that Facebook would always be the social networking site that people use. I dreaded the day that, and I still do, when people start converting over to whatever the next thing will be, I mean Facebook is just so good... or should I say, was so good. I don’t exactly know when, but it was sometime Saturday morning I am pretty sure, but I got on Facebook and it seemed, just different. I thought it was kind of cool how I didn’t have to load the new posts on the news feed with this new thing called live feed, but what I didn’t realise is how atrocious this actually was, and it was then when the hatred of ‘New Facebook’ occurred.

I have been trying to upload around one hundred photos from my graduation on Friday since around Saturday afternoon, but it doesn’t work. It just takes forever to get to a little pop up thing that says that my upload has failed and my only option is to try again. I have done this around ten times now I think, and it is just fucking annoying. You would think that the day where the news feed isn’t bombarded by quizzes and new high scores in Facebook games would be an amazing one, but instead, my news/live feed is now covered in people that I know becoming friends with people that I don’t know, people becoming fans of things that I don’t care about and people joining groups that I don’t care about. There was a time that all I wanted was for Facebook to have a dislike button, and then it would be perfect, but I was wrong for wanting to improve it, because by taking away what it used to be, I realised that it was perfect, and for being so ungrateful we are left with this monstrosity that even Myspace is better than. I just hope that they change it back, but I really hope that they don’t change it even more.