Where have you gone, Facebook? I miss you.

facebook_cartoon.gifTo me, in the world of networking sites, Facebook is the be all and end all. Facebook provides its users with necessary facts about friends, birthday reminders and even precise stalking ability. Facebook never ceased to make me feel warm and bubbly inside; even those times when sitting alone on my couch… I always had a friend in Facebook. That is until I logged into Facebook and could not recognize the face of my reliable and old cyber friend. Facebook has been changed… and not for the better.

After the intial shock subsided, I took a deep breath and promised myself to make the best out of a very sad situation. Unfortunately, my anxiety mounted as I fruitlessly searched for friend’s pictures and statuses. I was simply unable to locate anything. I felt out-of-control. Tears began to well in my eyes… I couldn’t even find the “about me” section in my own profile! How was I to know what I liked and I didn’t? How would I know what movies I would like to watch? What music I preferred listening to? My identity was gone with one swift key-stoke from a very bad and very mean website graphic designer. I resigned that the only way to remedy this situation was to find this man… or woman… and kill them in the name of the original Facebook.

After realizing that this would probably not be the best course of action, I sat back down and slowly opened my laptop, secretly wishing that I would find the old Facebook smiling back at me. Sadly, I did not, but I did spend some time begrudgingly looking around the new website. After several hours of painful research, I can now say that I have figured out the new Facebook… but I’m still not happy about it. Although, you will never find me joining groups like, “One Million People Sign Up To Bring Back The Old Facebook!!!”, I still would very much like to see the old Facebook to come back.

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