Facebook News Feed Fatigue

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Facebook News Feed Fatigue

by Ian Smith Nov 7th 2007

Do you login to your Facebook account each morning and immediately feel exhausted? Does looking at your friends weekend activities, application adds, and recent comments make you want crawl back into your nice warm bed and never get up again? You may be suffering from a sleep disorder known as "Facebook Fatigue."

Fear not! Facebook Fatigue is a common problem that is easily remedied with caffeine and lots and lots of super pokes.

Seriously though, is there anything actually useful in Facebook news feeds these days? Aren't most entries a crude form of personal spam? It is like free web mail all over again. Only instead of body modification drugs and unbelievably good stock deals cluttering up your Inbox, you have to wade through an endless stream of meaningless updates on the lives of your sort-of-friends.

Its like Star Magazine, only the people in it aren't rich, they aren't beautiful, they certainly aren't popular, and the most interesting thing they've done in the last 48 hours is add the True or False application. Come on! Get over yourselves people!

Facebook is like a personal invitation for people you hardly know to cry "Hey! Look at me!" over and over again each day. And now, to make matters worse, there is a Facebook News Network! Can things get any worse?

Probably.

This little gem was produced by Train of Thought sketch comedy in Seattle. Hopefully we'll see more like it in the future. Overzealous Facebook users need a good round of mocking once in a while.

Tags: facebook news network, facebook video, FacebookNewsNetwork, FacebookVideo, sketch comedy, SketchComedy

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

anthony said 3:47PM on 11-07-2007

The Texas Hold'em App. is addictive and fun though!!

kingkool68 said 4:36PM on 11-07-2007

Awesome vid. You do know you can go into the News Feed preferences and tweak which type of events you would like to see more of and which you would like to see less of. Facebook gives you lots of control over this little gem.

Ethan said 11:40AM on 11-08-2007

kingsomething is very right - I've blocked all those useless apps (and not added people who aren't actually my friends) and my feed only includes stuff I want to see, barring ads.

Alex Leonard said 6:14AM on 11-09-2007

Yeah, Facebook is weird. Sometimes I'm not sure I really need to hear everything my friends are doing.

I stayed off it for quite a while and recently logged back in to find 29 friend requests (from people I actually know or knew) and a host of messages.

Time will tell as to whether or not I stick around there.

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