The AFLI sincerely apologizes for the inhuman quiet on this site the last few months and for the delay as to comment-posting and the addition of new members. I do believe I have added all those who have so kindly requested to join the alliance. One weary college student can’t do it all, but know that your support is truly appreciated! Dear AFLI members, keep up your hard work and keep your sanity!
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"I told him he was a very sad man, that collecting Facebook friends is the equivalent of being a catlady, collecting numerous Himalayans, which you have neither the time nor the inclination to feed. "You have obviously never been on Facebook," he said. "It's so much worse than collecting cats." (Matt Labash)
One recent piece of research shows that “periodically checking your e-mail lowers your cognitive performance level to that of a drunk." (James Bowman)
"Internet software can be used as parasocietal mechanisms for the observation of online interactions. Online social networks allow for high levels of surveillance." (Susan B. Barnes)
"There are a hundred means of communication, and there is nothing to communicate.” (G.K. Chesterton)
“This... nicely catches the nuances of the ‘Facebook addict’ type: an anti-social, agoraphobic, ‘low maintenance’ lurker who is also a passive-aggressive and voyeuristic stalker accumulating useless social capital.” (Meaghan Morris)
"Facebook is a worldwide pie-stealing phenomenon that needs to be put behind bars." (Yours Truly)
"Oddly enough, Facebook has little to do with faces and nothing to do with books." (Mike C.)
“Modern societies must decide what their loves truly are — or else technology itself will entrap them in what is merely feasible.” (Michael Novak)
"Today we believe our machines allow us to know a lot more, and in many ways they do. What we don’t want to admit — but should — is that they also ensure that we directly experience less." (Christine Rosen)
“The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age.” (Eben Moglen)
"God is omnipresent. Facebook comes in second." (Ironic Catholic)
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." (Albert Einstein)
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." (Aldous Huxley)
"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." (Carrie Snow)
"It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome." (T.S. Eliot, about radio)
"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation." (Jean Arp)
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." (B. F. Skinner)
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." (Carl Sagan)
"Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance." (Paul Carvel)
"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." (Max Frisch)
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April 5, 2011 at 3:36 pm
raitostory
Hmm, I can’t say pretty much anything without being a total hypocrite, but i am interested, since from what i see i’m getting the uncomfortable feeling there are truths here.
So i’ll watch, and see what comes of it.
April 7, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Marissa
Don’t worry Savanna! Another college student we all know and DON’T love had a successful online career. And look at him now, the founder of one the world’s biggest internet fads. Maybe if you “friend” him, he’ll give you tips on how to manage your website and school…. Muhahahahaha….
Love,
M
April 11, 2011 at 11:04 am
Firdaus
Hi Savanna!
Quiet it may be but we know you are here. And we are here too. All the way until Facebook falls.
April 28, 2011 at 10:56 am
D Ma
Facebook is expanding, and meanwhile this site is silent. Sad.
Look, here’s the core problem with Facebook that nobody ever addresses: FB is a massive voluntary wealth transfer from the world to the investors and employees in FB. People who use FB are suckers, plain and simple. They give away their most valuable commodity – their attention and personal information – in exchange for nothing. And once deeply invested in FB they are trapped. They can’t “take their stuff” and jump to another social network. They are trapped. FB founders and investors (Goldman Sachs) will make billions next year. Meanwhile, FB users will get. . . nothing. Save for a loss of privacy and a permanent distortion of their perception of life.
May 26, 2011 at 10:42 am
beanbagfrog
Don’t give up the fight!
June 26, 2011 at 2:53 am
Mr. AA
I really don’t care about the money they make from our brains melting. I care about the intelligent thoughts and true beauty in the world that we are moving away from. Action is needed.
November 6, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Virry
I hope this webpage soon will become more active again
February 1, 2012 at 1:50 pm
Annie
Facebook has become a ubiquitous prescence which i fear will completely take over society as we know it and what choice do us who choose not to participate have? Our only choice is to speak up and fight back.
March 29, 2012 at 2:48 pm
J. A.
I recently have given up Facebook and have been much more productive with my life. Since then I created a blog and have been looking for other like-minded bloggers. I must say, this is the best one I have found yet. I am glad that in our Facebook obsessed world that there are some people out there who are as strongly opposed to Facebook as I am. I got my sister to quit using it (or maybe she got me to quit – either way, we both decided to get rid of it at the same time) and we are both glad for our decision. I find my life is much richer and fuller without Facebook than it ever has been with Facebook.