Facebook has caused a lot of controversy in its time. Most recently, the homepage redesign and added news ticker annoyed users and the new Timeline profile had everyone a little bit creeped out over how much information Facebook actually had. It’s unsurprising that most of Facebook’s issues stem from privacy and changes in the user interface because that directly affects users almost immediately after the change.

This infographic published by WordStream outlines Facebook’s criticisms, snafus and failures throughout its lifespan starting with an exchange 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg had with a pal during his Harvard days. Zuck said people were “dumb f***s” for trusting him with their pictures, addresses and social security numbers. I bet he never knew that would come back to haunt him.

Not all of Facebook’s new features are controversial, though. Sometimes they’re just plain useless. Facebook Gifts, the $1 virtual novelty item users could send to each other, was discontinued in 2010 (shocker there! What was it actually for?) and Facebook Deals, which hoped to achieve the same success as Groupon and LivingSocial, lasted only 4 months before the social network pulled the plug. Facebook Lite, a version of Facebook that required less bandwidth, was killed after 8 months and Facebook recently discontinued their location-based check-in service Facebook Places. While some of these features showed promise, they couldn’t hold up to competitors.

Though Facebook is constantly expanding, it has had some tiny hiccups in growth as well. In the first quarter of 2011, Facebook missed their earnings goal by 25 percent. Earlier in May of 2010 the service lost over 30,000 users to “Quit Facebook Day” and a reported 60 percent of users considered quitting the service. Currently, it’s not really hurting them. They’ve recently hit 800 million active users worldwide.

Check out the infographic below to view more of Facebook’s mishaps and click on the image to view the full size.