Dear Facebook,

I have a few bones to pick with you. First of all, I'm still sort of pissed that you opened yourself to the whole world a few years back. The uneducated rabble belong on Myspace and Twitter, the home base of porn stars and 13 year olds. Seriously. Wtf. Facebook was supposed to be for COLLEGE STUDENTS. PERIOD. You should at least have kept the high school/college portions separate, if you NEEDED to add high schoolers. Ugh. I'm really learning just how many people in the world don't know the difference between "your" and "you're" as a result of your change. Ignorance was bliss in that area, Facebook.

Secondly, the new format changes have pretty much all been bad. It was a lot more streamlined before. Don't get me wrong, I like the ability to modify preferences more, but with this whole "opening to the world" thing, which you clearly did for money, come quizzes and applications and all this other random bs that we never needed to begin with. The news feed and the info and whatnot were better prior to that as well (seriously, what are all these random boxes? It takes a billion years for some pages to load). Emulating Myspace is NOT a good thing.

Thirdly, as I mentioned previously, I really enjoy the ability to modify preferences. I like that I can choose which friends I do and don't want to see in my news feed. This allows me to ignore those that have no grasp of basic elementary school level grammatical constructions. It also allows me to hide exes, frenemies, and full on arch nemeses from my feed. Then, Facebook, you decide that it's a FANTASTIC IDEA to add a "highlights" section, which randomly pulls popular or new media from my friends' pages. EVEN THE ONES I'VE HIDDEN. That's like getting a fucking restraining order on someone, except they're allowed to sit on your front porch. Or they can hang out with you on Wednesdays. What. The. Fuck. Facebook, there's a reason I don't want to see these people. I don't like them. Or I like them, but I don't want to read about them. Or perhaps I'm still working on getting over them, and don't want to see them on my front page (but felt obligated to friend them back, 'cause otherwise I look like an asshole). Facebook, I'm really not an asshole. I just like you the way you used to be. Given that you won't go back to then, can you please either remove the highlights section completely, or allow it to be modified a la the news feed? Thank you.

Love Always, Your Friend,

The Bear