1) “Facebook needs a dislike button!”
These groups are pointless. Whether or not Facebook needs a dislike button, they won’t build one. Here are my three reasons why:
- People will complain
- It is too negative – saying you dislike what somebody is saying
- Where do they stop? Dislike, love, hate, disagree, agree…
So face it guys, they aren’t going to build a dislike button. If you really want people to be able to dislike your statuses, try using the app Status Magic.
2) “We need a million members to stop Facebook from charging!”
Facebook has 350,000,000 members. Why would they charge? It would be suicidal – people would stop using Facebook and move to another free alternative. All popular social networks in the past have been free and it is highly unlikely that Facebook would be any different.
3) “Get your name in the Guinness World Records in largest Facebook group!”
Really? You believe this? If they got 10 million members you think that they would print 10 million names? If not, then don’t join the group! The book of Guinness World Records has never had a “largest Facebook group” before. Yes, they may add one although even if they did, they wouldn’t print millions of names. And there are so many of these groups that it is unlikely for any one of them to grow so big that it would be the biggest group in the world.
4) “Bring back the old Facebook!”
It happens every time Facebook update the website. They aren’t going to update the site and then think “hang on, it isn’t an improvement…” and then downgrade again, are they? So use your head and don’t join the group! Besides, most of the changes are actually quite good.
5) Anything with “Official” in it
“Official petition…” or “Official group…”. Chances are, it probably isn’t official. The official label often gets stuck with any of the above groups and more! 99 times of of 100, it isn’t official. If you aren’t sure, if they are official they will probably have a website, see if that links back to the Facebook group.
So use your head, stop joining pointless groups and enjoy Facebook as a social network and not as a group-joining network!
