Facebook: Rockin' social network or one enormous pain in the nads?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

I get these invitations. They're from people I know, who are trusted friends, so I figure what the hell.

"Hi (My real name),

I set up a Facebook profile with my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. First, you need to join Facebook! Once you join, you can also create your own profile.

Thanks,
(My friend's real name)

Here's the link:
(the link)."

So I go to the link and it's my friend's page and it says "Already a member? Log in at the left"

So I log in and I'm on the main page and I can't get back to the friend's page and if I copy and paste the link from the email into my browser and hit "enter" it keeps taking me back to the main Facebook page.

And yes, I did opt out of all of their ridiculous invasion of privacy stuff.

There's gotta be a better way of doing this stuff.