( CNN ) -- Every week , there 's a new Facebook thing to gripe about . This week , there have been two -- and it 's only Tuesday . On Sunday , it was discovered that the 900 million-person social network was `` testing '' a feature that would let people see a digital list of the people who were nearby in real life . Called `` Find Friends Nearby , '' the app was pulled down by Tuesday morning after the Internet freaked out . Commenters said things like `` Hell to the naw '' and `` BAD FACEBOOK ! ! '' and generally complaining that the feature , which was difficult to find , much less use , invades privacy and will lead to stalking . If that 's not enough , a company named Friendthem reportedly threatened a lawsuit , saying Facebook stole its idea for the location-aware feature . Apparently , Friendthem would like to share the heat . Item two : A blogger noticed over the weekend that Facebook , without asking permission , had changed the default e-mail addresses of all of its digital residents to @ facebook.com accounts . It 's easy enough to change back , as the site Lifehacker and others have detailed , but that little invasion of the hub of digital identity -- the Facebook Timeline -- was enough to make quite a few Facebookers fire back at their digital overlords . Security researchers called the move dangerous . Normal people felt violated . `` Up next : Facebook inside your underwear drawer ! '' a commenter wrote on our site . So that was this week . But it seems like every week has been feeling a little like that . The fact that an anti-Facebook sentiment bubbles beneath the currents of modern life is , of course , nothing new . When the company introduced the now-popular News Feed in September 2006 , users threw a fit -- and many abandoned the young network , at least for a moment . Let 's put the brakes on for just a second and ask a few questions : . Are people mad about Facebook 's individual decisions -- the e-mail , the tracking , the News Feed -- or do the roots of this discontent reach into deeper , darker places ? If it 's the latter , why are people so continually frustrated ? Do we hold Facebook to too high of a standard ? Is the social network turning its back on users ? Or is it just that our digital lives are now so invested in Facebook that it would be nearly impossible to pull out at this point -- and , because of that , we feel helpless ? Here are a few theories about what 's actually going on with people 's unhappiness with Facebook . Take a look and let us know which you think is most accurate -- or offer up a theory of your own -- in the comments . Facebook has become an octopus . And by `` octopus '' we mean it 's got too many tentacles to manage . This theory is put forward by the blog the Next Web , which says Facebook is buying too many new companies -- Instagram , Glancee -- and trying too many new things . ( This is a critique more commonly lobbed at Google , especially when it was launching one product after the next that flopped : Google Wave , Google Buzz , etc. , etc . ) `` When you start packing in more features while you 're removing none of them , feature creep will happen and users will start to ask the question 'Why ca n't they just make it easy for me to talk to my friends ? ' `` Drew Olanoff wrote . `` After all , that 's why people started leaving MySpace to go to Facebook in the first place , because it simply tried to do too much . '' Writing for Forbes , Kashmir Hill puts it this way : `` Facebook would love to be the all-inclusive resort of the Web , replete with complementary digital daiquiris ( that you 're forced to chug ) upon entry . '' Facebook is a technocracy , and we want a democracy . As Alexis Madrigal writes for the Atlantic , Facebook has evolved into a `` technocracy '' : a government of sorts that 's run by engineers who value efficiency above all else . When you complain to the real-world government , you can expect a response -- or you can use your voting power ( or run for office ) to push for change . At Facebook , 2 million complaints per week are handled largely by computers and a staff of a few hundred people . Their aim is to process as many issues per day as possible , to help people connect and , as Madrigal puts it , to stop people from leaving the site `` by minimizing their negative experiences . '' `` Facebook 's desire for efficiency means democracy is out and technocratic , developer-king rule is in , '' he writes . Even when the site does give its users a chance to weigh in on policy , Madrigal says , users do n't take up the offer . In a vote about a recent privacy policy change , 0.038 % of users participated . There 's no competition . Hope and pray all you want , but there 's no other online social network with 900 million people . Chances are , most of your friends are on Facebook , so even if you try to go to a competing network like Google+ , it might be as fun as talking to your cat . Here 's a list of alternatives from our What 's Next blog , but none of them seems like actual competition in terms of numbers . Facebook cares more about investors than users . Facebook went public this year , leading to criticisms that the site 's motives have changed . Is it focused on cash instead of users ? While that complaint may be premature -- CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains a majority stake in the company , so he does n't have to listen to investors and his board all that much -- the company 's IPO , and the billionaires and millionaires who resulted from it , doubtlessly cloud how people see Facebook 's motives . And it does n't help to know that , in mid-May , you were worth only $ 1.21 to Facebook . `` How much does Facebook value its users ? In strictly monetary terms , about as much as a bag of chips , '' David Goldman wrote for our sister site CNNMoney.com . Or , as Slate put it , Facebook is `` conducting an experiment in corporate dictatorship nearly without precedent for such a large and high-profile company . '' Facebook is no fun ( anymore ... ) I put the question of what 's really wrong with Facebook out on my Google Plus feed , in part because that network is a hotbed for Facebook defectors . Several followers brought up interesting points , the simplest of which is that Facebook , as it grew , became un-fun . `` Facebook started as a social network that was 'fun ' to update your friends and classmates ( since it started for-college students only ) and grew into something that can affect your career , reputation and invade your privacy , '' one user , identified as Julie Hancher , wrote . Here 's another thought , from a person identified as Robert Sons : . `` Bombardment with stories you do n't care about from people you barely care about . Depression that you 're jealously stalking other 's lives instead of living your own . Shallowness of content . The more content you absorb , the less valuable your own posts seem . '' And I 'll give the final word to Carlos Ochoa , who wrote , simply : `` Everyone uses Facebook but nobody likes it . '' Let us know what you think in the comments below .
Two incidents this week cause backlash against Facebook . The company changes users ' e-mail addresses , tests `` Find Friends '' feature . Score: 6