Do you find Facebook boring?

[sanantone]

I don't understand having several hundred friends either. You can't possibly really know and talk to those people all the time. Here is what my friends, family, and coworkers mostly post:

1. Hundreds of pictures and videos of their children. People feel obligated to like those posts because they're children. Some of the children are cute and some not so much.
2. Complaints about work.
3. Going to the gym.
4. Look at a picture of what I'm eating.
5. I love my mom, dad, kids, husband, wife, etc. We already know. We don't need to hear it once a week.
6. Attempts at giving advice for dealing with bad friends, haters, and relationship issues.
7. Funny pictures that are being shared around the internet.
8. What kind of music they are listening to at the moment.
9. Interesting news stories. I actually find some of these interesting, but my less intellectual friends don't. They'd rather hear people complain or talk about a small triumph such as losing 5 lbs or getting your GED. (Those things are great, but they are still boring.)
10. Invites to play those stupid games.

I do prefer forums such as this where you can have deeper discussions. I never understood why Facebook became more popular than MySpace. I attribute it to people being fickle and jumping on the bandwagon. There were several things I enjoyed about MySpace:

1. Ability to customize the background of your page. Facebook is just plain dull and ugly.
2. Ability to customize your page with a song and playlist.
3. You could easily go to an artist's page and listen to his or her music.
4. A fairly active classifieds section where you could look for various items to purchase, jobs, gigs, etc.
5. Groups that functioned like forums. Facebook groups are stupid.