They don't. Facebook continues to gain new active users, and keep its existing base, at a remarkable rate:

And people are spending longer on Facebook than they used to:

Good Question. Facebook was a revoluionary app when it first came open. But since then many things went bad and nostaligic.

The problem with Facebook is that:

1. Their interface is still way too much cluttered.
2. They lack real users. Many of the IDs are fake or not being used anymore.
3. There search by email or phone number sucks. Even you can’t find a person using filters it gets more horrible.
4. The app is very slow and not responsive.
5. The emojis suck like hell.
6. Facebook for no reason censores your content like videos or audios.
7. Facebook is nowadays mostly used by old people.
8. The security and personalization settings are too old. They are required to be changed.

I can go on and on. These are some problems from the ocean of problems that facebook has right now. :)

It’s ruining everything, and I felt like it was so obvious but I actually didn’t notice it until last year…and most people are quite slow (partially because of sites like Facebook dumbing them down) so it would appear not many of them have figured it out yet. I fear it’s already too late to do anything about it, and by the time they finally figure out (if ever) it will be FAR too late. Everyone is offended by everything, fighting with family, friends…everyone has just been split up in so many ways and I believe it all started when Facebook got to the point where the majority of the population was on there.

My family was so close before, but Facebook caused so many issues because people didn’t really understand how to act on there, and because things like joking / sarcasm are so difficult to perceive in typing, especially by older people, it drove a wedge between literally everyone in my family. They all hate each other now, and I have noticed a lot of other families are like that too. Everyone disagrees because have of them aren’t intelligent enough to realize they are being brainwashed by sponsored posts, and the other half have become too intelligent due to the massive amount of information available online. Therefor they all start arguing and since the Facebook era, if someone disagrees with you you “block” them and then shit really hits the fan.

Another issue is that there is a massive difference in generations, mostly caused by the rise of the internet, and Facebook, especially in it’s early days, made everything open to everyone on your friends list. I had a ton of issues with scenarios like the following:

Scenario 1: My mom gets on Facebook because everyone makes fun of her for not being on there, so they “help her” set up an account…yaay…then I meet a girl and we eventually move in together. Then my mom sends a friend request to my girlfriend. My girlfriend is now in this awkward position where she either needs to accept my mom as a friend, or risk offending her, so she accepts. Then my mom starts looking through photos and sees a pic of my girlfriend kissing another girl at a party. I was there and I was okay with it, but as I said before “different generations” and all. To this day my mom dislikes my (now ex) girlfriend because she kissed that girl at that party (lmao).

Scenario 2: I have a sister who is a gossip, and a sister who lies a lot, but in her defense it’s because she’s a “people pleaser”, she tells people what they want to hear because she likes for everyone to be happy. This works out okay for both of them in the real world… Enter Facebook. The sister who tells people what they want to hear gets trapped between telling her mom what she wants to hear, or offending her…so she does as most people would do, she lies. Well, the gossip sister sits there staring at her ticker feed all day, and she sees the lie as apparently it was in a comment. We all knew it was a lie..but she pushed it and pushed it because in private messages we tend to push things too far. Facebook just causes drama due to the mix of comments for everyone to see, and then private chat for them to gossip and spread things more quietly. So one sister blocks the other, then sister c takes sister a’s side and sister d takes sister b’s side…pretty much this domino effect splits the entire family apart. Now, 5+ years later, they all continue to not talk to each other.

Their kids never see each other (this all causes a massive butterfly effect through the generations), and I have a ton of nieces and nephews who don’t even know each other, and some have even had kids themselves who are forced to be even more distant, whereas back before sites like Facebook the whole family was close…everyone went to everyone’s bday’s and all joined up for the holidays. Now no one can stand anyone, half of us have anxiety problems which also we didn’t have before Facebook. I know it’s difficult to prove the anxiety comes from Facebook…but some of my sisters are in their 40’s / 50’s and they made it all the way to the Facebook era before having anxiety problems. I started out on the internet a couple of years before google, and I didn’t develop social anxiety until these past 5 or so years. We were all fine through years of Google, years of forums, online games, Youtube, email, etc. but something about Facebook and that mix between public info, private info, restrictions, multiple algorithms, photo psychology, and probably a ton of other factors just screwed people up bad. Real bad.

Shadow profiles on new born babies. Selling everything you have ever clicked, liked or comment you’ve ever made on Facebook to your next employer so that they can use what ever AI algorithm your employer has to decide if you get that job or promotion. Employers can now discriminate, quietly and in ways that would be extremely difficult to prove. One look at the Facebook data and you know immediately what the racial/ethnic background is, what the socioeconomic background is, what the political leanings are.

Now, Facebook is using social media behavior to decide if you’re credit worthy. Soon, Facebook will be able to say that you don’t deserve a bank account or a home loan.

They also haven’t exactly been respectful of data and how it’s handled. Their data and privacy breaches are legendary. Their most recent gaff let children chat with unapproved strangers.

Basically because Faceback has lost it’s credibility & feeling of companionship among friends. It doesn’t feel like home anymore. It feels like a battle ground.

When I first joined Facebook, in 2004, it was a relatively small group of people that just wanted to engage in small talk about their common daily lives with others from a distance, You could find a sense of companionship if you were lonely or depressed. You could share your joys, swap ideas & projects back & forth, & without fear of undue or brutal criticism. At times it could almost be seen as a non-secular confessional. It was like a backyard fence with a large number of neighbors hanging on it. Just bring your morning coffee or afternoon beer & there ya go. It was like the ally in the “King of the Hill” television series. A hang out spot for friends.

There used to be a limit of 500 friends & it was actually hard to achieve that number. Now having twice that number or more is common. Half of em you don’t know or have forgotten about & actually may not be who they say they are, & 2/3rds of em have agendas, if not all of them.

At the time you weren’t flooded with ads & agendas. You could trust, relatively, the information you were seeing. You didn’t need a phyber pistol to safe guard yourself or your personal information. Political agendas & or “attacks” were not the first thing that hit ya in the face & fund raisers to save the children, save the planet, save the dogs & cats,& pharmaceutical or health products weren’t being shoved down your throat by the second. “Go Fund Me” pitches would have been shocking & distasteful

In a nutshell, it’s an unfriendly environment now, untrustworthy, forum like as opposed to being a cordial exchange of thoughts & ideas & almost dangerous at times. Comments & posts used to amount to a few sentences instead of, verbose, small novelettes. I’ve seen shorter articles in major news paper editorials

. Facebook has become a place for cowardly, agenda driven people & merchants to hide behind, chest beat, recruit, & troll for targets & victims.

Not everybody nor everything, on Facebook now, is guilty of all that. Just 80% is guilty. You can have a comfortable experience if you search, tenaciously, long & hard enough, but is it worth the stress by the time you find that island in a raging sea? If your not too mentally exhausted by then, probably not. Actually, one would be safer looking in a bar for conversation & companionship. At least there, hopefully, you’d have a bartender there to cut you off before you got too drunk & obnoxious. LOL

Facebook & sites like it are basically the new ,mental, narcotic.

I perceive Silicon Valley folks have a bias to focus on the future. Any company that has not yet IPO'ed can IPO and potentially make a ton of money. Any company with a great idea and some funding can be the next big thing. This is what Silicon Valley seems to consider "cool." And this focus on the future comes at a defocus on the present. There are many companies here that make money every day, but have lost the "cool" factor because they have already discharged their ability to capture the imagination of what could be. And there are many companies that are raved about, despite not actually having anything but potential. Potential is cool.

Facebook is a very compelling site that does a great job at bringing people together with content they care about. It's not perfect, but that has not stopped them from making a fundamental shift in the way we use the Internet. Not much has changed between the time they were cool and now -- except that we have already discharged our imagination of what will happen when they IPO.

I think we can still enjoy web experiences that we enjoy, despite people's snotty opinions about who is "cool" today. After all, we're not in high school anymore. Rating web companies as "cool" or not is pretty uncool.

A2A Why do people dislike Facebook?

Thank you for your question, Jennifer. I can’t speak for everyone, but I can say why it’s gotten old for me personally.

Haha Not sure if I should start a list. Why not?

• I’d been using since it’s inception (14–15 years). There’s very little I’ve been that dedicated to.
• It became a place for people to boast even though you knew the reality of their life.
• Got tired of reading uninformed political rants.
• Too many changes.
• I don’t care what someone on my Friend’s List last ate.
• The app knows too much about you when you use it.
• It’s a waste of time.

And the best reason of all…..

• Because I found Quora and all of the smart people who use it.

Please stay safe.

I hate it because notifications come up blank. When I go on Facebook and click on any notifications that show in the upper right corner, all I get are blanks.

I have to repeatedly refresh the page and keep clicking on the notifications before they FINALLY appear.

In the older Facebook, notifications worked just fine. That said, it also had some issues. It often froze up when I stayed on it for any great length of time. So far, the new Facebook hasn’t frozen up, although I suspect that it will at some point.

Both have their pros and cons. I just can’t decide which one has more pros versus cons.

Here’s an example of Facebook foolishness:

About 5 years ago I came across a school class picture from the 1960s, in which one boy had mooned the photographer.

I thought it was funny, and posted it on Facebook, with a comment to the effect of that 'everyone probably had someone in their class like this kid'.

Meta took exception to the pix, and branded it 'child exploitation' and banned me for a couple of days.

I protested but did not get a response.

Then apparently last Wednesday, 28 August, the algorithm conjured the picture again as a 'your post from 5 years ago' popup, and again I have been put in the naughty corner for a few days.

I didn't even see the offending picture come up on my feed, and definitely did not repost it, so essentially Meta is banning me because Meta posted a 'child exploitation' picture on my behalf without my knowledge or permission.

This is simply idiotic.

When the picture pops up next time, say on its 10 year anniversary, will I be banned again?

While I think it unlikely any human will even read this, it would be nice to know that someone, somewhere might recognise the absurdity and fix it.

I would actually welcome it, if Facebook is less cool. Somehow the "cool" factor puts me off, it denotes an "elitist herd mentality", kinda like "hey everyone is on it, let me also be on it, to be cool and with it".

Right now I believe Facebook has moved on from just being a dating site where you put up your best pictures to impress females or the site where you uploaded all those lovey dovey pics of you with your girl/wife to get others feeling jealous.

It has become a true networking site, where you end up meeting your old classmates, friends by accident or design. I was able to meet up all my engineering batchmates of 1992, people with whom I had lost touch in the middle. We met up, formed a group, called Class of 92, and this December we are planning a grand reunion, of all our batchmates. Now if this is being less cool, I will take it any day.

Right now FB has groups where you can host quizzes, discuss on world events, political, economic issues, share your thoughts on classic cinema, share your favorite books with others, your blogs, your views. Less cool did some one say.

There are a whole lot of things I hate with FB, its cluttered UI, people randomly clicking on Like button without even trying to understand the status, its screwed up privacy features, but end of day, I believe it is here to stay.

And to those who feel its less cool, I guess they will find something more cool, and then quickly get bored of that too.

I think early on FB was very exciting, friends wanted to say something cool, share fun picture, videos etc. to get attention, recognition or simply a laugh from other friends. These days that excitement is not there anymore for several users. Also, early on very few of your friends were there, so it was a small circle. These days pretty much everyone you know is on facebook and connected - from your work place, family, extended family, friends, real estate agents, baby sitters and so on. It is more like a global address book these days. This is not necessarily bad, but just not cool anymore when you have almost a billion people on it. FB is used to invite friends for parties, house warming, babyshowers & so on (like evite). FB is used for online picture store, sharing and for many other applications. So for close to a billion people it is a utility now. Electricity must have been cool long time back, now you only think about it if power is out. And since the user base growth happened fairly quickly it feels like the culture changed in under a year or two.

1- It doesn't play the video in the background in mobile, because they want you to see the ads.

2- when you post, you really don't know who is seeing your post from the circle of friends who the post is open to them. It is like talking in a party towards the center of the room with your eyes closed and not seeing who in that big party is listening to what part of the info you gave out so far.

3- The design of the webside seems out of hand. You watch the video of a page you like, but it plays a video of a page you don't like after that automatically.

4- It shows the posts of the people who aren't your friend to you, if that post be public, if you unfollow all your friends to put your home empty.

5- The ads are distracting.

6- What People post are totslly random from the soup of thoughts in their mind, and you don't actually need zo see that. It wastes your energy.

7- All photos of you and your ex in your account makes you not want to be there.

8- Everybody seems successful, but you are sad.

9- Your crush likes other's photo or post or communicate with them and the platform makes you not want to be there.

10- It brings your ex in your mind because of mutual friends or info of them being there.

11- I feel it is like a street. Leaving your thoughts in the middle of a street for everyone passes by, if you put a comment on a friend's post or answer them.

12- Average of the age of people is 40+ with so many parents and relatives of 60+. It is not fun.

13- It is a serious place. You cannot make a mistake and write something someone shouldn't read and you forget who you wouldn't want to say this in front of them, in your contact list.

14- You really don't know who is stalking you in the dark.

15- When you want to mark an event to attend or decide about it later, everyone in your friendlist gets informed!

etc.

Facebook is a strong lure, lots of good info, sometimes bad info, and lots of pictures and gossip and sharing. It is a minute news feed about everyone and everything all over the word. It can keep the bored occupied for hours on end, and a place to go to keep up daily with friends, family, activities, current events, and so much more. It can also be a huge crutch as well, and i know some who are addicted to it and are on there 5 6 7 hours a day at times. I enjoy seeing pics of my family and keeping up with current news and sharing. I try to limit it, i do not have thousands of friends on there, as some do, i have maybe 25 people, that’s it for me, that’s quite enough, so i won't overburden my activity on there.

There is just so much to hate about Facebook. What began as a cooler, cleaner version of Myspace has become the dirty laundry hamper for everyone you've ever met. Few reasons why people have started hating Facebook are -

• Using Facebook as Google: Facebook is not a search engine. None of us are waiting in the wings to give you expert advice on changing your oil, baking, crystal meth production, or whatever else you might want help with, even though you don't want help enough to actually read a book on the damn subject. Unless someone wants to sleep with you really bad, no one is going to answer your pleas for knowledge, so it might be best to stop asking.

• Getting status about friendship: The new format makes it really hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Before it used to just be people's status updates. Now you get an endless stream of stupid crap that no one cares about. Do I care that so and so is now friends with so and so? Do I care that so and so commented on so and so's status? Not even a little bit, yet this is what my entire "news" feed is littered with.

• Updating status about hitting to GYM:No one is going to try to sleep with you because you claim to workout. This is a common mistake made by the denizens of Facebook. It seems that the majority of females, at one point of another, let it slip that they are headed over to hot yoga after they finishes their iced latte. Very few men have resisted the urge to let the world know their delts are sore after that intense gym session. No matter what your chosen physical regime, can we all agree to leave the Internet fitness discussion to the professionals? If you aren't Jillian Michaels then no one cares what workouts you do, no one cares what protein shakes you drink, and no one cares that you're "totally going to feel that workout in the morning," bro.

• Food pics are Instagram's domain. If you want to see attractively posed friends, exotic vacation pics, and drunken revelry accented by the Kelvin filter, then you have to deal with food pics. Facebook should be a safe haven from these culinary snapshots. There is no reason that we should have to add your dull food photos to our already full plate of dull reactions to your favorite TV shows and stories about your dull relationship. If you post a picture of a meal, it had better be with a celebrity, on a yacht, or on your death bed, or such a post is unacceptable.

• Free offers: On the Internet, not only is nothing free, but people are constantly trying to trick you into spending more money. Why would someone buck that trend and dole out free iPads, Jordans, and Bill Gates inheritance portions? The jerks that post these things always toss something like, "I figured why not?" in front of their posts so we don't think that they are complete idiots.

• Oversharing: It comes in so many different forms. Sometimes it is a collection of rapid-fire statuses walking the world through the most mundane moments of the poster's day. On other occasions, oversharing shows up as a long monologue chronicling the drama between a Facebook friend and his/her baby momma/daddy. In other instances, the Facebooker can't help themselves from talking about the most graphic aspects of their bodily fluids. No matter what form oversharing takes, it is harmful to all of us. If we all would just take a moment before posting a status and think about how this might impact others, whether it might gross them out or make them pity your painfully dull existence, then maybe Facebook would be a better, less overshared place.

P.S: So stop using Facebook and start spending more time on Quora as it will help you in gaining some knowledge for sure.

Image source: Personal screenshots and facebook images.

The answer to this question can be both Yes and No, depending on how the situation we are judging because Facebook has its own merits and demerits. Let's consider a high school student addicted to Facebook and does nothing rather than using Facebook and lying in bed. Facebook is terrible for him in this situation, not because Facebook is bad but because he has misused Facebook. Let us consider another example: a high-school graduate uses Facebook for some productive work, i.e., looking at classroom notices on the class group. Let's discuss with friends on a video call the solution to the project he has been discussing performing. In this case, Facebook is the same as in the previous case, but the user who has been using it uses it productively. Thus, I think Facebook is not bad as everyone speaks for students when it is used productively.

Let's, have a look at the downsides of Facebook:

Oversharing

Facebook over-sharing is one of the most common among young adults and teenagers but is not limited. Disclosing this much information annoys others on the sharer's network or reveals too much about them. Even if they do not harm users' lives beyond Facebook, they can affect their online reputations. For example, a college student may be suspended if he posts pictures of himself drinking alcohol online and the college administration sees him. Their teachers could expel teenagers who talk about cheating on tests if their teachers learn about it. Oversharing can also harm your job prospects and even result in your termination.

Bullying

The problem of bullying amongst students can rise to a new level on social networks like Facebook. Facebook has the advantage that it's not anonymous, so bullies are forced to take credit for their comments. However, the downside of this approach is that bullies don't need to physically confront their victims. He can quickly humiliate his victim if he catches him doing something embarrassing and turn it into a network-wide embarrassing video. Most bullying occurs on Facebook among teenagers, but adults can also bully one another on the site. The public nature of Facebook means people can spread their shame more quickly than ever before.

Addiction

The social and sharing aspects of Facebook allow students to go from one thing to the next quickly before they know they have spent 45 minutes on Facebook. A little browsing is fine on occasion, but if you depend on Facebook so much that it negatively affects your work or studies, you may be addicted. In July 2012, the Norwegian University of Bergen published a study titled "New Research about Facebook Addiction" that found that younger users are more susceptible to Facebook addiction than older users, socially anxious users are more at risk than secure users, and women are more likely to be addicted than men. As with any addiction, Facebook can make people restless and unproductive when they cannot visit the site.

Spam

There are a lot of extras on Facebook, so spam becomes a concern. When you become a member and earn friends, you'll start receiving invitations to quizzes, horoscopes, and games. Many people find that it makes too much junk on social networks, between status updates and invitations. This is great for those who like this kind of thing but can be distracting for others. When Facebook users invite their whole network to multiple events simultaneously, even an essential feature like event invitations can create spam. This might become a massive distraction for a student who may be preparing for their exams and making them less productive in their study.

Envy

It is common to feel envy, loneliness, and misery when you see pictures and updates of your successful friends. An in-depth study published by Humboldt University in Germany and Darmstadt's Technical University in January 2013 found that envy is the most prevalent negative emotion among Facebook users who do not engage in conversations with successful friends. Due to this, some decrease their Facebook usage, while others brag, which creates more envy.

I think these are some of the common reasons why people say Facebook is not suitable for students. But, all of the problems mentioned above can be suppressed by your own doing, i.e., if you are productively using Facebook, there is less chance that students will be distracted from their primary goal, which is to study. Thus, instead of debating what is good or bad, it is better to only exploit the good aspects of Facebook for your good. Spending all the time on Facebook, skipping your essentials, and bragging about Facebook is bad for students is just a lame excuse and waste of time.

Facebook isn't exactly sunshine and rainbows these days. People are worried it's doing more harm than good.

Here's the not-so-great stuff:

• Like a bad friend:
  Facebook can mess with your mind. People get hooked on it and it can make you feel down comparing your life to everyone else's highlight reel.
• Fake news factory:
  Not everything you see on Facebook is true. False information spreads like wildfire, which can be a real problem.
• Privacy party crasher:
  Facebook collects a ton of your data, and it's not always clear what they do with it. Kinda creepy.

But it's not all bad:

• Friendship forever:
  Facebook helps you stay connected with loved ones, even if they're far away. Birthday wishes and baby pics galore!
• Newsflash!
  You can find out what's going on in the world (hopefully the real stuff) through Facebook.
• Business boom:
  Businesses can use Facebook to reach customers and groups can organize around common interests.

The truth is, Facebook's a double-edged sword. It can be a great tool for connection, but there's a dark side too. Whether it's ruining society is up for debate, but it's definitely changed the way we connect with each other.

Looks like you have a clear idea of which profiles make you unhappy for now.

Facebook has a feature that you might want to try: Acquaintances. You can downgrade a Friend to that level so that they won't show up in your News Feed but they still see you as their Friend, so they can't suspect you stopped following them. It reversible (without notifying the person) so you can go back to following them when you feel better.

I'd recommend that you not only downgrade aggressively anyone with annoyingly happy pictures for now, but that you also get yourself a hobby so that you can post pictures of your own: woodworking, fencing, gardening, weight throwing. bee hives, jogging, cocktail mixing, DJing, build your own bicycle… anything to keep your mind outside. Korfball, even. Deleting Facebook won't really help if you don't have something else to do; if you have other things to do, you won't be on Facebook when you do them.

Many of those activities also come with new friends, so you'll be able to fill in your News Feed with those. Some network of practice, the group of people sharing a hobby, are mostly on YouTube or Twitch, so you might switch to those instead. Maybe Facebook will remain a painful distraction, so you might want to move to more radical measures.

I suspect a lot of what you are going through to actually be related to one break-up. In that case, don't hesitate to Block the person in question, if only temporarily. Many people need that, and it's OK if you need help moving on. If you don't trust yourself and keep unblocking the person, ask that person to block you: they will probably be more steadfast.

Facebook most likely is your main way of contacting distant friends, extended family, long lost classmates. Try to go to their profile and like some of the stuff that they published that you didn't see, or put a positive comment of something nice. That should sent a strong message to the News Feed algorithm that you want to see other things, so keep liking random posts and “unliking” things (top right grey arrowhead) until you see things you like. You probably have ten times more things that Facebook could show you, but it learnt that you were into other stuff until now – so teach it otherwise, and re-make different friends. Go to groups that sound fun, or absurd and move on if they are borring. Ask for ideas for a new hobby.

Facebook can be a great tool to help you move on, but you can certainly find fun things to do elsewhere. Try to leverage it by sending clear signal that you want to change.

there is a old acc i want to delete so badly and a acc my ex doesn't want to delete because they don't want too, my ex wanted to make me feel like I'm a possession along with my old acc with me and my ex there, i wanted to delete it badly its affecting my mental health so i try reporting the two acc i was surprise there were no open for reason or stuff just the report and reports that needed to be choose then they will say that they will check, when i get my message they will say that, “sorry we cannot deactivate this account because we see that this account won't give harm in our website” like that's fucking selfish of them to say, its affecting my greatly and my mental health. why is Facebook doing this to everyone i read how Facebook doesn't care of their users