Facebook. The social media giant that brings people together yet can pull people apart–from both each other and reality. Facebook. The place where millions of teens throw hours of their lives sitting inches from a computer screen chatting with friends, instead of actually spending real quality time with them. Facebook. A world I complain about so much, but find myself coming back to time and time again.

1. Likes. What are likes? What is the point? You are merely just acknowledging the existence of a status, a photo, a quote, or a video. Congratulations, I found your idiotic post somewhat relevant to my life. “Oh, I love how your hair looks today, let me LIKE it.” It should be harder than a mouse click to let somebody know you care.

2. Little Girls. I personally cannot stand the existence of preteens on Facebook. Believe it or not, the last thing I want to do is log on and see 12-year-olds caked in makeup and hair dye posing in what is left of their clothes-every day. Facebook is giving younger children a reason to try and act mature and cool. Would you be swearing, complaining about boys, and flicking your mother off when you are still getting spoon fed? It’s something to think about the next time your friends’ little sisters shoot you a friend request.

3. Trending Topics. I am not going to lie, I take part in this, but it is really annoying when my entire news feed is the same status, rewritten in different ways. Yes, I understand the Giants won the Superbowl, that school starts tomorrow, that there is a thunderstorm, and that today is-surprisingly- Christmas. There is no need to state the obvious every time something eventful happens.

4. Birthdays. What has become of birthdays sickens me. I find the hundreds of “happy birthday” posts on peoples’ walls extraordinarily uncompassionate. You scroll down and read the same meaningless line over and over. If you really cared about someone’s birthday, call them! Tell them in person! Send them a card! I could care less what you do but leaving a 14-character note means nothing. Just the other week, on the day of my actual birthday, I received countless “happy birthday”s on my wall, but I could count on my fingers the number of friends that actually told me in person. Maybe I’m taking it too personal, but that just annoys me. Facebook has taught us to take the easy way out, and the empathy is obviously lacking.

5. Creeping. I use this term loosely, as one can define creeping as merely glancing at somebody’s wall, but for me, I find it really weird when somebody likes your second ever profile picture, or a video of you singing back in 6th grade. Don’t you find that awkward? I mean seriously, you have nothing better to do in your life then scroll through my profile and finding the most embarrassing posts of me? Fortunately, this does not occur as often to me as I see it done to others as I scroll down my news feed.

6. Facebook Games. I absolutely hate with passion the fact that there are online games on Facebook. I log on to see what is up with my friends, post been what’s happening, and chat. Believe it or not if I really wanted to play games, I would get my Xbox, not click on boxes and plant tomatoes. I’m sure I have racked up hundreds of game invites over the months, waiting to get declined. Stop asking me to play your stupid games. I go on Facebook–for Facebook.

7. Inappropriate Pictures. Please ladies, I’m being honest here when I say this, as much as guys loving staring at the pictures you post every 20 minutes, PUT A SHIRT ON. I have seen countless teenage girls on Facebook who have at least one time in their life took a picture that is a little too revealing for my taste, and then had the audacity to post it on the cyber world for all to see. Guys, save your “abs pics” for later. Yes, we know you “hit the gym” every day from all those statuses you post, we get the point. Ladies and gentlemen, if you are going to do that, take your photos to Instagram or Tumblr, not our sacred Facebook.

8. Facebook Fights. I, along with many Facebook users, enjoy sitting back, throwing some popcorn in the microwave, and scrolling through hundreds of comments of everyday people arguing, threatening, and fighting over the dumbest things. It’s amazing the insults that can be thrown around for saying one wrong thing that somebody doesn’t like. If you are going to sit behind a computer screen and post “flames” and “disses,” you must be a real tough kid anyways.

9. Checking In. Facebook has had some pretty dumb ideas, but the Check In feature is pretty useless. There aren’t many people around that enjoy letting all 800 of their friends know that nobody is home right now and that I’m chomping down McDonald’s at 12:30 on a Saturday. It creepy, it’s not safe, I doubt anyone truly cares where you are, except if you friended your mom.

10. “Like This” Photos. The thing I absolutely, positively hate the most about Facebook is the spam photos people “like” to feel more secure about themselves. For example, “Like this if you love God” or “Like this if you brush your teeth” or even “Like this if you are on Facebook.” It saddens me that people are stupid enough to spend the time to create such idiotic pictures, let alone like them, and spread them through the Facebook world.

As you can probably tell, it’s the little things that bug me about Facebook. Don’t get me wrong, I come back 365 days a year. There is no easier way to connect with friends, but sometimes, I just sigh, look at what has become of our society, and ask myself “Is this REALLY what people do with their lives?”