Stop Breathing Down My Neck Facebook!

I've come to a conclusion. Out of all the social media sites, Facebook has got to be the most obsessive compulsive, micro-managing one out there. No, seriously. I'm not sure who's in charge of layout changes, but they have some serious time on their hands.

Every time I log in to my Facebook page, they've added some ridiculous change. I now have a breakdown of friends on the left side. It shows them as family, people in my town, and the limited list (This is a special group I made for the people who post 6,000 status updates daily and clog my feed. Plus they annoy me.) Now, some of these things overlap. Some of my family lives in my town. Do I REALLY need my friends organized this anal retentively? Can I not figure out who lives in my town? If this is really a problem for people, perhaps they should think about editing their friends list.

Of course I have to click on each and every one of them because it gives you the little blue square next to the group signifying they've posted new updates. This drives me crazy for some reason. I can't stand to see those little blue squares. The only way to get them to go away is to click on the group. Many of the posts for them are the same. Redundant much Facebook? And do I really need to have the square telling me that there are new updates? Am I an idiot that cannot figure out how to use my mouse and SCROLL down my homepage and see what other people have posted? As for my limited list, I blocked their posts for a reason. And yet I still have to see them because you gave me the hellish blue square of notifications.

It seems like every time I turn around, Facebook has organized something else into groups. Or they changed the layout of the page. It took me 3 months to figure out what they did with the sorting of the feed on my mobile app after their last "update". And why do I even need this feature? Why do I have to choose the sorting as either top stories or most recent? Let's always assume that I want to see the most recent. I'm certainly not going to want to re-read the crap I already looked at. And who decides what constitutes "top stories"? Facebook? Why do they get to choose what they think is important to me? This should not even be an option. Get your crap together Facebook.

If they really wanted to be helpful, they should organize my list by people's posts. One for political crap, one for inspirational quotes, one for humor, and one for the drama queens who post every sordid detail of their lives for the world to see. This would actually be helpful to me. (FYI: I'd probably only click on the humor section. I've had my fill of politics, inspiration, and drama thank you very much.) I could skip all the posts that I don't want to see AND get my daily dose of medicinal laughter. Win win.

Apparently, the people at Facebook have never heard the phrase, "If it's not broke, don't fix it." You've gotten too big for your britches Facebook and I don't like it. That's right, I'm righteously standing on my soap box! Okay, I'm putting it away now.