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Facebook just isn't what it used to be.

At first, Facebook was great. It was a great way to develop new friends and keep in touch with old friends while in college. I could easily "Facebook" someone from my Rho Chi group during sorority recruitment and plan dinner, I could look at that guy I met at the frat house on the weekend to see if he was a creeper, I could keep in touch with friends from other schools to see what they were doing and I could maintain a highly-competitive poke war with several friends from high school.

But, after Facebook opened itself up to everyone (businesses, parents, developers, etc), it lost a lot of the sparkle it once had. I had to delete things off of my profile and edit myself into the "All-American girl" because I was afraid that my professors, church members, employers and (oh no!) parents would see something that they could twist into something bad. I'm not a bad girl and I never had racy or inappropriate pictures. But I find myself editing everything I put up in order to create someone that all parents and employers would approve of.

What really makes me dislike facebook are all the ridiculous quizzes, applications and advertisements. I understand that Facebook apps are addicting. Some people must have absolutely NOTHING to do during the day because they're spending all their time on facebook. I've actually de-friended some people because I'm SO tired of all the invites to work on their farm, throw pillows at them or find out which celebrity's baby I act like. Because I'm at the beginning of the alphabet, people ALWAYS choose me to be one of the lucky friends they refer to the stupidest applications. People I otherwise might like to stay in touch with get de-friended or messages begging them to stop inviting me to join their ninja fight.

My suggestions: don't force me to decline 10000 invitations to stupid applications every day. Granted, Facebook has now made it possible to ignore all invitations from certain apps and users. But, it doesn't stop new ones from coming my way. Instead of forcing people to ask 250 friends to join an app, why can't the developers allow people to select people to invite or skip the step? I guarantee I would take some quizzes if I received one or two that would truly entertain me. If I was part of a select group (of 5 or so) that my best friend chose to invite to work on her Twilight farm, i'd be up to the task. Maybe allowing people to see what friends have taken similar quizzes or downloaded similar applications would be a better way to choose exactly who they invite to the app.

I admit, I enjoy using Facebook. I love being able to keep up with what my high school friends are up to and to see pictures from home. I like being able to look up names to match with faces. I also like being able to get discounts on fan pages.

I'm just tired of being bombarded with invitations to take quizzes or join farms when I really don't use facebook as means of entertainment but as a way to stay in touch.