Facebook it's a love hate thing

Alright, Facebook, I've got to come out and say it...we've got a problem. When we first got together, you where this wonderful place where me and my college friends out joke around, hammer out the details of when we were going to execute that prank and when the next kickin’ party was going to be. It was great and even more so, you where simple. Gone was the flashing, loud, color-clashing MySpace pages; you and that simple blue interface, all my friends’ pages were relatively the same layout as mine. Then you started to let others join in on the fun. I really didn't have THAT big of problem with it really, yeah it wasn't that exclusive little club for us college students anymore, but I got over it and put it to good use by keeping in contact with my younger brothers. You did make up for opening up though, you got a nice shiny make-over and a really cool new feature called the News Feed which basically took information already available about my friends and put it in a nice, easy-to-consume package. Now, I know SOME people didn't like it, they threaten to go as far as leave Facebook because their privacy was being invaded, despite the fact that the information was already available and they could remove themselves from the News Feed easily enough through their privacy settings. During this short time of turbulence, I went as far as to do something that I'd normally only do for Apple: I defended you. I made a group, I personally got into arguments with the people too thick to see the facts. Things calmed down and the News Feed lived on, all was good. Facebook continued to rock.
Then, you stabbed me in the back. May 2007, Facebook opened up the Facebook Platform, allowing 3rd-Party developers to create applications or widgets that users could add to their profile. Now, granted, in some ways this was cool; new features could be added to Facebook faster and easier by these 3rd-Parties and improve the over-all value of Facebook. But this is the internet, not real life and that means people will find a way for it to look like crap. It didn't take long, only a few days later, awful color clashing profiles were popping up, Top Friends, in my mind, being one of the worst offender to the eyes. Other horrible applications started showing up, proving that we humans and in specific Americans, are in majority awful, sick minded, and perverted people. How many different apps do I need to spank/bite/hump someone? How far do I need to make my friends scroll to get to my Wall? As a matter of fact, I think I need TWO walls and 4 different photo apps. Let’s not forget the ones that people add and then never even touch or configure! They most likely added them because they got an invite to it from their friends! Oh, and mentioning invites, that was the straw the broke the camel’s back. I get consistently 5 to 10 "invites" to add an application. I blame both sides though, users and developers, first users for actually sending it and developers that trick users into sending the invites. For instance, Jetman makes features unusable until you sending 200 invites to people. Facebook, why do you allow this? I don't know how many more "Free Condoms" invites I can stand. Now I admit, some of the apps are useful. I use “courses” and “audio” (thank you for banning auto-play), they keep in line with the standard blue interface and don't interfere. Now Facebook, this whole app situation could be simply fixed really, by making app developers use the standard user interface. You made yourself different from MySpace at the beginning because of your simple, clean interface. What have you done now? Well, I'd say the exact opposite.
Ok, Ok Facebook, I know I've been rough on you so far, but I'm not done. A few weeks ago, I was at my favorite distraction besides you, Kongragate where I play flash games for points and badges and level up as I go. Then, as I was playing, Tower Defense (that looked like it belonged to you, Facebook) a little alert came up. I was busy with the game and ignored it planning on investigating later. Well I forgot, but a day later, I was on Facebook and for some reason my mini-feed told me that yesterday I was playing Tower Defense on Kongragate. WHAT? Without my permission, you've decided to allow OTHER sites outside of Facebook to post about me. Now I know, I was asked by that little window that popped up, but doesn't this kind of thing usually an opt-in sort of deal? Yeah.
Alright I feel a little better now that I got that off my chest, but Facebook, you got a lot of fixing to do if you want me to stick around. Relationships are tough and once you commit to something, it's hard to leave. But I'm ready to, Facebook, you push and push and I give and give. I know in the end it's all about profit, but you can't make profit if we all start leaving.