99 Reasons Everyone Hates Facebook

Despite boasting over one billion worldwide users, Facebook has inevitably transformed from being a well-loved social outlet for friends and family to an ego-centric, duck pose-laden, virtual farming-centric nightmare. Rather than wag a disapproving finger at the website itself, writer Emmet Purcell catalogs the 99 reasons why - despite our best efforts to leave - Facebook has become a part of our social identity, for good or ill. OK, mostly ill. Across nine humorous chapters, the worst Facebook offenders - from folks who design pages for their cats or 'Poke' you incessantly - are named and shamed. Whether you love, hate, or love to hate the social network, 99 Reasons Everyone Hates Facebook will you have nodding and cringing in equal measure.

Despite boasting over one billion worldwide users, Facebook has inevitably transformed from being a well-loved social outlet for friends and family to an ego-centric, duck pose-laden, virtual farming-centric nightmare. Rather than wag a disapproving finger at the website itself, writer Emmet Purcell catalogs the 99 reasons why - despite our best efforts to leave - Facebook has become a part of our social identity, for good or ill. OK, mostly ill. Across nine humorous chapters, the worst Facebook offenders - from folks who design pages for their cats or 'Poke' you incessantly - are named and shamed. Whether you love, hate, or love to hate the social network, 99 Reasons Everyone Hates Facebook will you have nodding and cringing in equal measure.

Emmet Purcell, from County Kildare, Ireland, graduated from the University of Huddersfield in 2008 with a BA (Hons) in Print Journalism and Media after obtaining a Higher National Diploma for Media Journalism in 2006 from the Ballyfermot College of Further Education. His work has since appeared in publications including The Foundation, Qatar Foundation Telegraph, JOE.ie, Game.ie, Totally Dublin, Click Magazine, the Liffey Champion, and the Leinster Leader. Emmet is currently a Senior Writer for the Qatar Foundation Telegraph and The Foundation and lives in Doha, Qatar, where he is usually bored out of his mind. 99 Reasons Everyone Hates Facebook is his first book.