Opinion: Facebook Turned Me into a Curmudgeon

There is nothing that makes me feel more advanced in age or susceptible to hereditary dementia than Facebook. I go here on occasion with the intent of looking at friends' profiles or spying on the going-ons of those I am too distant to talk to in person anymore. Sometimes I try to write something clever, but mostly my Facebook communications are along the lines of, "hiii!!!!"

All of that is fine and good, but what bothers me is that every time I go on to Facebook to do something I find that the Facebook people have changed how to do it. For instance, I used to be able to write lengthy sentences about my activities, interests, books/musics I like, etc. But now I can't do that anymore; instead, I have to pick my interests and hobbies from something called "pages". And it seems once I pick a page (which of course I picked one I didn't mean to), I can no longer delete it. Additionally, I no longer understand how to update any of my personal information, and for some reason what is there appears twice. In other words, my Facebook profile is an entire mess.

I am certain that all the high school/college kids have no problems adjusting to the near daily changes that the Facebook people make. I'm sure they can understand and utilize "pages" and other sophisticated applications I have been entirely too overwhelmed to even attempt, such as "Farmville". All I know is that someone sent me a present for my farm, but I never found out what it was because I didn't know where to find my farm. I get the uncomfortable feeling that the Facebook people are trying to edge out my age group or, maybe, my mental agility cohort.

I hate to be the curmudgeon, but I do not appreciate feeling flabbergasted every time I log into Facebook. Humbug!

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