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Yesterday, following a study that showed declining interest in Facebook from the social network's developer community, we posted a poll asking if you were fed up with Facebook. The results were a fairly resounding "yes." In our most active poll ever, only 13% of you said that you are "Not At All" fed up with the social network and are still enjoying it just as much as when you signed up.
Jared writes:
"Facebook jumped the shark with the infectious applications as well as their rate limiter gone amok. I write a friend Happy Birthday on their wall yesterday and they say I'm spamming, apparently because two weeks before I wrote another friend Happy Birthday. I'm not sure who's running that ship but they are starting to go off course."
Aprille writes:
"Facebook makes my head hurt - there's too much going on on a page,and since I just want to see quick updates, scan for new friends/ emails, and leave - it is way too cluttered. It seems to me that people started having fun, developers went nuts creating something for every personality possible, and now it's just drowning in too much stuff."
Ranee writes:
"I wanted to throw up when Facebook opened up to high school students, and when Facebook opened up to everyone, I wanted to stab myself in the eye … P.S. A feature that I really find annoying is "People You Might Know". There are TONS of people who are friends of my friends who I do NOT want to get in contact with. What makes it worse is that everytime I log into my account, I see their ugly faces on my homepage."
It should be noted that the original report was only showing application usage – not overall usage of Facebook, which most accounts indicate remains at an all-time high. However, the poll question certainly did provide a sounding board for some of you to voice your displeasure with the direction Facebook is going.
I think Brian Solis summed it up pretty well with his headline a couple weeks ago: "Facebook is the New MySpace." What was less than a year ago seen as Facebook's game-changer - the platform - is now being seen by users as its most annoying and least desirable feature.