Unfortunately, in spite of the fact that it's only a website, every member of my family (excluding my technologically inept grandparents) all use facebook on a daily basis.
My parents use it mainly for the purpose of informing various other family members of an amusing cat they've found somewhere on Youtube. Which in essence, isn't so bad..
..However, the various family members that they are sending these feline clips to, are more elite facebookers, and have an amazing repertoire of unknown friends, distant relatives and downright weird strangers that they've added for no other reason than that they took the trouble to send a friend request to them. Consequently everything my parents send to them becomes free for the very odd permanent facebookers to glance at to their hearts content.
'Permanent facebookers' bring me neatly onto my next point. Facebook has gone mobile! Now people can enjoy this belittling activity on the go. I can't vouch for everybody on earth (or this fact, for that matter), but I'm going to say that around 8/10 adults would facepalm at the youths on the public bus service facebooking away, instead of simply calling their friends and speaking voice-voice.The main culprits of this heinous crime, are the other people in (embarrassingly) my age bracket. A lot of people who read this would assume that I'm just ranting because I have no friends on facebook and that nobody cares about my existence... You would be very correct... No, that's not true, I actually try to avoid facebook at all times due to the fact that I don't wish to read about what people are doing at that very second when they felt that it was impossibly difficult to resist the urge to update their status for the 500million friends I'm sure they all have.
I will allow this.
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