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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)
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"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)
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March 1, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Shane Krall
I wish to become a A.F.L.I member. Thank you President. -Shane Krall
January 25, 2011 at 8:36 am
Dunc
Great website! I left Facebookcult over a year ago and haven’t regretted a single day of friends of friends feeling the need to boast and looking at what I say to my relatives and new and old friends of friends. I prefer to communicate properly, with meaning, to my actual friends by phone, skype, email or wait for it… face to face… actually talk to them, meet them & shake their hand! (..this rant followed by an easy 20 page essay) Count me in A.F.L.I. !!
March 23, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Kylie
I, Kylie M. Feiring, wish to become a member of the A.F.L.I. Thank you very much!
March 30, 2010 at 7:18 am
Paul Letzepis
I would like to be a member of the afli. I have never been a member of facebook. The sight of it makes me cringe. Everyone i know is always on facebook. there is no privicy.
Thanks Paul Letzepis. Australia
April 4, 2010 at 5:53 am
Swati
Facebook is the anti-thesis of being private and after the onslaught of facebook I understood my personality more than ever before. I am a private person. I like it like that. I also don’t believe in crappy communication (talking for the sake of talking), only quality communication. I could go on why facebook sucks! I like your site. Its sincere and decent and makes sense.
April 5, 2010 at 7:22 am
calvarypatriot
Thanks for your comment and support! You are spot-on about Facebook being contrary to privacy and true communication. Would you like me to add you as an official member of the AFLI, and if so, what name would you like me to put down for you? Thank you for taking the time to think twice about the real forces at work behind Facebook!
S. J. Buckner, President
May 10, 2010 at 2:54 am
Cormac O'Connor
Can you please make me a member. I have never been on face book. I went travelling around south america for 6 months last year. I met one other person who was not on facebook. 1. In 6 months. That is market saturation.
Please put my name down as coconnor
October 5, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Lori Williams
Spot on! You got it so right!
April 11, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Andrew J Taylor
Greetings President and members from Australia.
Oh wondrous joy!
In the immortal words of the anonymous “Face Book – I don’t care what you are doing!”
Let us proceed with great haste to end the festival of banality that is the social networking phenomena which is slowly but surely reducing human communication to mediocrity.
Viva le revolution and sign me up as an AFLI!
A. J. Taylor
April 14, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Jordan F. Mooney
I would be most honored to be accepted as an official member of the A.F.L.I.
I am very proud to say that, not once, no, never have I used Facebook–a record about which I am most jubilant–and now I am presented with an opportunity to actively denounce it? How cool is that! (Forgive my slightly reactionary tone).
http://www.aipnews.com
http://www.velomobiling.com
http://www.scripturewall.com
April 27, 2010 at 6:26 am
Alexander Heidene
How many “friends” you have on facebook i mostly invert propotional with how many you have in real life.
May 4, 2010 at 2:46 am
Theresa Fox
I would like to be accepted as an official member of the AFLI. I value my privacy and think Facebook is dreary and potentially dangerous.
May 4, 2010 at 5:01 am
Cormac O'Connor
I just received a facebook invite from a friend. The invite also included commetns about other friends who have invited me. From 2008. And a list of about 20 poeple “who i might be friends with”. The scary thing is, that i am friends with them. All of them. How can a website that i have nver used remember when i turned down it’s unwanted advances and also who my friends are? I’m not a member and even that is an invasion of my privacy.
It’s important that people know that this is NOT normal. A voice needs to be leading these concerns, this is the place to do it.
March 24, 2011 at 9:33 pm
kingmob
It’s actually out of control already but has slipped into it at just the right rate to get away with it. It’s getting worse too. Most of the users seem to be too stupid or slowly immersed to actually see what it’s turning them into or using them for. It’s insidious. Pretty soon people will be treated with suspicion if they don’t have an account. I’ve already had the “You’re not on Facebook?!?!” comment a few times. Dark. It makes me despair. It’s like living out one of those old sci-fi stories I used to read like ‘The machine stops’
May 4, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Michael Feldman
Hello,
I’d like to be an auxiliary member for now. I’ve always hated using Facebook, grudgingly signing on it because it’s useful for getting the homework assignment I missed every once in a while.
For years I didn’t publish a single thing; I used the private chat and messenging instead of publically announcing things. Now I’m strongly considering just deleting the whole thing.
Sadly, it’s very convenient for me – a gilded trap if I ever saw one.
For what it’s worth, what pushed me over the edge was all this crap about Facebook connecting with other websites. Way. Too. Creepy.
May 5, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Michael Feldman
Thanks for adding me so quickly. I deactivated my account a few minutes ago at the same time as a friend of mine did – we both sent the same scathing rant in the “Please explain why” field. I’d love to post it here, but it’s a bit lengthy.
May 8, 2010 at 1:25 pm
calvarypatriot
That is fantastic news! I am assuming you would like to be “upgraded” to official membership now! Just a thought: If you would like to email your story about quitting Facebook to the AFLI, maybe we could post it as an article.
Savanna J. Buckner
May 5, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Megan
I would like to become an auxiliary member! Thanksssss SJB. : )
May 5, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Ricky Intoy
Savana B!
You have persuaded me to become an auxiliary member!
May 7, 2010 at 2:06 pm
skulz fontaine
I hereby submit my request and formal application for acceptance into the Anti-Facebook League of Intelligentsia. I loath FB. The reasons are many and mostly obvious. A little too free with the release of ‘personal info’, way too commercial, and it’s just an irritating format to try and navigate. Hmmm, I’m not so keen on twitter either. However after I puked up the koolaid and regained my sanity, I bailed on both and ordered my being “deleted” from the entire mess.
My name is don nash. screen avatar is skulz fontaine. I am also protobone for the Discus thingy. Yeah, there’s some relevance there boy.
Please let me know if there is more that’s required for admission.
respectfully,
don
May 9, 2010 at 8:32 am
Pheve Antipa
I would like to be accepted as an official member of the A.F.L.I.
Thanks!!! =)
May 11, 2010 at 9:58 am
Pheve Antipa
Thanks!
May 11, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Matt M.
Facebook “friends” – what an oxymoron! Wake up folks. Real friends will meet you for coffee, give you a call, or at least draft an email to you. I really despise the whole social networking phenomenon — it’s a load of self-indulgent drivel.
I’ll join the A.F.L.I.
May 11, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Space Alien MF82593
Greetings from Mars…
In Mars, we have a social network called “alienbuds.” It’s all the rage over here. As I am greatly inspired by this remarkable earthling (I didn’t know that earthlings were so intelligent!) I am considering starting an “anti-alienbud league.
Farewell,
Space Alien MF82593
May 12, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Jake Buchanan
I would like to be accepted as an official member of the AFLI. I value my privacy and think Facebook is awful.
May 13, 2010 at 7:36 am
Kareem S.Wahib
I’d be glad to be a member of A.F.L.I as facebook has raped my rights! they removed my account although they gave me one warning and I obeyed it! and their customer services messages insulted me!
Stop Facebook now!!! :@
May 14, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Space Alien MF82593
Greetings from Mars!
My gosh, if you think facebook.com is bad, you should see alienbud.mars! Over here in Mars, the alienbud CEO is the Martian king! They arrest all aliens who do not have alienbud accounts. Hold on, I think I hear someone walking down my hall. Let me go check…. Help!!!! As I type, the Martian Police force is arresting me!!!!! Send your police over to rescue me! Help earthlings!!!!!! Heeeeelp…..
MF82593 will no longer be posting on this wonderful website any longer. I’m afraid she has been arrested. All prisoners of the M.P.F. are immediatly put to death, innocent or not. I sincerely hope that you enjoyed MF82593 while you had her. For any of you earthlings who are interested, I will send you information about her funeral. You will have to pay your own expenses.
Thank you, MF82593′s secretary
May 15, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Jon Fenkner
I would like to be a member of A.F.L.I. i have never been a member of that aweful cult and show my discust to people who do. thank you for your time.
Jon
May 17, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Jones
To the Esteemed President–I wish to join the Anti-Facebook movement because I feel that Facebook tears away at the very heart of clear, decisive, and deep thought, and I also believe that other detrimental, pointless, and shallow sites should be avoided as well. I shall protest against the outrage of Facebook all the days of my life as well as avoid other sites I think join it in its stand to take down the literate, intelligent world.
Postscript–please send only the acceptance letter to the prescribed email, I ask that I not recieve other emails after that.
Many thanks and congratgulations to the League!
May 28, 2010 at 3:14 am
Andrew Cuff
SJB,
Your existence is a relief to me. Your “10 reasons” are the exact same ones I have been telling people for years.
Sign me up.
Sincerely,
Andrew Cuff
May 28, 2010 at 10:47 pm
pamelaseley
I have left the anti-social, pseudo-networking media of facebook forever! I wish to become a member of AFLI. You are proof positive I made the right choice.
Thanks,
Pamela Seley
July 7, 2010 at 5:40 pm
xMurphey Talcolmx
I want to become part of this movement, was beginning to think that I was the only one who thought this way. Thank you for confirming that I’m not the only one.
July 10, 2010 at 4:49 pm
michaelpinto
I request membership as a full member. Please view the latest post on my blog its clearly states my qualifications.
July 29, 2010 at 1:22 am
dsh
please sign me up, it’s enlightening to see that others find this social phenomen very disturbing, there is no real communication going on with facebook. thank you dsh
August 2, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Margaret Walsh
Facebook is a very artificial environment. I am not a fan, even though I have an account. I love this sight, and Savannah is awesome!
August 2, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Jacob Grant
I’m sitting three feet from you and I think I’m the only person at this table who fully agrees with you. Does that qualify me for full membership?
August 6, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Rich T
I’m not a joiner of “bandwagon/timesuck/digital fingerprint” social media sites such as facebook. I’m even skeptical of this site. I don’t wish to join AFLI but appreciate it exists
Free your brain, read a book (not on an ipad but from used bookstore)
August 26, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Sloan
So glad I found this site, and that such a movement exists. I have never been (nor will I ever be) a member of Facebook, although I did join Twitter briefly to promote my online writing. What I discovered is that a) everyone is too busy promoting themslves to notice anything anyone else is promoting and b) there is no real communication involved when masses of people spit out 140-character blurbs to other masses of people. This act rarely if ever promotes discussion or conveys any remotely important information.
But back to Facebook. I used to receive a slew of emails from them, begging me to join to hook up with “all the people I may know on Facebook,” including photos of random people I’d never heard of but who somehow got a hold of my name, peppered occasionally a few vaguely familiar acquiantances from my past. I got so annoyed with FB trying to guess who my friends are (and creeped wondering how they even tried!), I sat down and wrote them a letter. I wish I had saved a copy, it would be a great addition to this site. I told them I’d never join and asked them to please never send me another email. To my surprise… it worked. They have never emailed me again!
September 4, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Dustin
I want to be a full member. I got rid of my Facebook account last week and truly don’t miss it for all the reasons you talk about on here and more. I don’t want to go back. I find I’m still talking to the people who matter, so I feel silly for all the time I sunk into it.
September 6, 2010 at 11:40 am
calvarypatriot
Glad to have you join the illustrious AFLI, Dustin!
S.J.B.
September 13, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Safa
This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. Just call me a member! Official, of course.
September 16, 2010 at 2:17 pm
calvarypatriot
Fantastic!
September 30, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Taylor Ruth
I’m really glad there are other people out there who agree that its not worth it.
October 3, 2010 at 2:31 am
Chloe
I really really hate Facebook!!! I believe it’s making people sillier and sillier, faker and faker!!!! I used to have facebook but I quited it!!! I am so happy I found this website, it’s awesome here!!! I wish to be a AFLI member and I’m determined to persuade as much people as I could to quit facebook!!!!!!!!
October 5, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Lori Williams
I would love to be a member! I have to tell you that I did once upon a time about two years ago have a facbook account….I now know it is JUNK….JUNK…JUNK…privacy…ya whatever! I searched for anti-facebook tonight after “TRYING” to read the news. I have facebook blocked in my security services as well as my internet browser….so now everytime I try to read the news or anything else for that matter….I get popups telling me I am trying to access facebook…allow or block…block block block…it even happened with this site! I am just so frustrated with Facebook this and facebook that! I can’t even check the weather or read the news anymore without facebook in my face! ARGH!!!! Really??? Has the world become that dependant on this stupidity!….sorry about the rant! Please add me!
October 6, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Marie M
I’d like to become an official member, thank the stars there are others who do not like facebook! I’m deployed to Iraq and am pretty sure I may be among the 10 Soldiers who don’t have a facebook in the country! It is sad that people look at me like I’ve grown extra limbs when I tell them I don’t have a facebook page. Even worse when you meet other Soldiers or Sailors or whoever that 9 out of 10 times the first question they ask, “do you have a facebook?” Really? So we are stuck in Iraq but you’d rather converse via facebook? Anyways, sorry for the rant, I’m happy to join the party!
October 8, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Lydia
i am anti-facebook because of the following reasons:
since i deactivated my Facebook account, i email more & write letters & call the ones that are on my mind…(when you think to yourself, i wonder how so and so is….call them!!! they’ll appreciate it a he** of a lot more than a Facebook message) i have remembered how relationships with people can be interpersonal.
I spend more time away from my computer and more time with myself and one on one time with people in my life… instead of wondering/snooping into others lives through networking.
my mind is a lot calmer and cleaner.
I’m not thinking unhealthy thoughts such as possible jealousy, envy…or assumptions from a misinterpreted message that is typed.
I appreciate seeing someone that i haven’t seen in a while a whole lot more and have more to say to them because I’m not constantly seeing their updated Facebook status.
I get to see people face to face and talk to them as they are —and not as they portray on Facebook.
i would love to join the anti Facebook league
thank you!!Lydia Harris
October 9, 2010 at 1:50 am
pamelaseley@gmail.com
I thought I was a member of the AFLI, but if not, I would like to be. Facebook is just another way to market crap that no one wants. It has nothing to do with friends, or anything significant, other than people trying to sell you stuff, invite you to play stupid virtual games like Farmville, or former so-called “friends” who want to stalk you down and find out if your life is miserable. Facebook is for narcissistic people who don’t have a life.
January 23, 2012 at 8:23 am
Kevin P.
You are absolutely right! Especially your last sentance, it describes my recent ex-girlfriend. Now to find an anti-facebook one, that might be hard
October 10, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Andy
I would love to join the ALFI. I find that Facebook has become the root of all evil, and would like to start working against it as soon as possible. I’ve read your constitution and agree with every last word. Facebook pollutes our lives and pervades our minds. It is a way of life for most of my generation. Being but 18 years old, I am embarrassed to be a part of the Social Networking Generation. Therefore, if you accept it, I pledge my full allegiance to the ALFI. I thank you for your creation of such a noble organization.
October 10, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Andy
Feeling a little embarrassed now, I realize that I transposed the L and F in both of my acronyms. Oops!
October 11, 2010 at 6:42 pm
emily
make a point that there is such a thing as paper and pen. even a phone. and not this mask of a page in which i call my identity. what are we doing to our children? disconnecting them from reality.
October 12, 2010 at 7:30 am
Tanya Taylor
Official member. I am beyond passionate about this cause. Hope you accept me.
October 18, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Greg Straub
Facebook = another narcissistic and naive example of proof that we’re nurturing a Nation of Pu**ies. Pardon the language.
October 18, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Greg Straub
…and I wish to become an official member.
October 19, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Adrian Popa
Facebook is useless! I want to become an official member. Thank you.
October 23, 2010 at 9:16 am
Leila
I am a teenage girl, and Facebook is all people talk about anymore. “Oh, did you see what new group they made for the school? She keeps flipping her status to single and in a relationship. Get a facebook. ” Honey, I have a phone and a house; come get me yourself. I want to become and official member.
October 25, 2010 at 11:00 am
Joshua Karosis
Facebook is a socially crippling mechanism that promotes unhealthy development and shallow competition. I have long awaited a group such as this.
October 25, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Chance Smith
I’m not sure what the difference between being an official member or an axillary member is, but i wish to join no matter the difference. If i could contribute some inspiring words to be published, then i would love to think of some things to say, given some time.
-”Social Networking” and “Social Engineering” are too close for comfort.
October 26, 2010 at 12:58 am
Tom
Fakebook…er facebook – Psuedo-communication designed originally for children but now is rife among “adults”. I have never joined and am utterly sick and tired being told by people 25+ “This is how people live! Oh My God, how do you live?”. I’m sure many people have mentioned about being ashamed to be apart of this plastic, ignorant, semi-literate and pretentious generation but you wont find anyone more ashamed than me. Please allow me to join this one last saving grace for this dumbed down patheitc society.
October 31, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Dylan Jones
It’s profoundly disappointing that most young adults will read one-hundred 1-line status updates before reading a single chapter in a well-written book. Casual approaches to spelling, punctuation, and basic grammar will eventually lead the next generation to believe that ‘good enough’ will cut it in the real world. Unfortunately this is not the case. I’m definitely not ‘LOL’.
October 31, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Dylan Jones
p.s. I’d like to be an auxillary member
November 1, 2010 at 4:27 am
Kabage
I deleted my facebook account a few months ago. My friends ask me why I did and I couldn’t come up with a good answer. I always hated being sedated by flickering screens. I found this site and it makes me happy to know that something like this exists. It needs to exist to balance things
November 1, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Jamie
I wish to become an auxillary member. My refusal to get facebook has resulted in someone creating a fake account to impersonate me. The fact that sadly most people believe its me just because it has my name and picture shows how shallow and impersonal relationships on facebook are.
November 3, 2010 at 12:12 am
Brittany
My reason for joining is not to belittle the actual users of Facebook. However, I have never had facebook and find it completely narcissistic and have literally nobody else who agrees with me. Maybe the most irritating thing about the concept of facebook is that everyone lies about why they actually have a facebook, instead of being honest and admitting its for gossiping, prying and boasting about their own lives. It thoroughly bothers me.
November 3, 2010 at 12:29 am
Tim Obert
I deleted my facebook about a month ago. I thought it was only going to be temporary.. but I’ve now realized that its for good. I feel that we all are the enlightened ones.
I would like to please join this group.
November 3, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Woa
I would most certainly love to join as I have never had a facebook and thankfully never will.
November 4, 2010 at 11:17 am
Stian Garibaldi
Hi,
When I see how Facebook has taken over the people here on earth, I become afraid. Afraid for my life, and others…
If we could pull this site down somehow, I will be glad:)
Sincerely,
Stian Garibaldi – Norway
November 8, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Michael
I would like to become an auxillary member. I have recently deactivated my facebook account after realizing how dangerous and addicting it is. The thing also ruined and ended a relationship with a girl I had been dating for 7 months. If there were no facebook the relationship would have probably been more healthy and maybe would have lasted. After taking a step back, I realize that facebook is very quickly growing more powerful. Just about every person and company has one. There are some people who do nothing but sit on it for hours instead of communicating with people the normal way. Tv and radio advertisments now regulary advertise their facebook pages. I would not be as concerned if it were not integrating itself into our society as much as it is. This is one of the newer progressions of the 21st century that is actually not good for us. In a way, we are seeing corporations gain control of and market the spirit of the individual.
November 10, 2010 at 1:02 am
Steven Curtin
Do sign me up, please. Facebook is something of a narcissist’s paradise.
I don’t like narcissists.
November 12, 2010 at 7:34 pm
mike
well I’m pretty sure why we all want to be members of this genius site, so i might aswell throw in my two cents. I hate facebook…i hate everything about it…i don’t care about your online life or what your doing today or your stupid daily pics. I think it’s just another fad like starbucks and i’m tired of people asking me about it. there is a reason why i don’t have fun…maily becuase i hate it, and i’m not into social networking.. I HAVE A LIFE OUTSIDE THE INTERNET. so therefore, i despise facebook and tired of hearing about it so i would like to become a member.
November 14, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Joe K
Hi,
I would like to apply to be an official member of the AFLI. I have never owned a facebook, and never will. I am the most anti-facebook person I know, and I have forced most of my friends and my family to quit (and by doing so I have made the world a better place lol). I always reprimand people for talking about facebook in my prescence, and everyone I know recognizes me as a “facebook hater” (and i am proud of that!). I heard of your site recently and it would be an honor to be a member!
Thanks!
November 15, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Jon Hall
I would like to become a member of AFLI. You never truly know something until you try it for yourself. I made that mistake in high school because my friends were doing it, and long for the day when Facebook lets you completely remove your account and all details of your life.
Facebook has been a source of pain for many who have seen their significant other change their status to “single” before they knew what was going on, a breeding ground for computer viruses and identity theft, and a giant face-palm for my generation for being addicted to the very thing they protest daily: invasion of privacy. What’s the point of having the constitution if you’re only going to hide behind it when you need it and ignore it otherwise? “I will post my everday life for you, but don’t read it or that’s an intrusion of my privacy.”
Thanks
November 15, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Jon Hall
I would like to become a member of the AFLI. Social networking is a huge face-palm for my generation. I don’t understand why people will voluntarily post their life’s every detail and then complain about the government invading their privacy.
I made the mistake of joining Facebook, and sorry to say, Myspace in high school (when they were new) just because my friends did, but I stand behind the most true statement I’ve ever heard:”you don’t know something until you experience it for yourself.” Years have passed since I disabled my accounts, I hardly used them anyway, and I shudder to think of the future with the popularity social networking sites have gained.
November 17, 2010 at 10:31 am
Maria
Awesome job with the site, Savanna! Looking forward to checking out the site daily!!
November 17, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Melody
Please sign me up as a member of the AFLI. So many people have Facebook accounts nowadays that it is relieving to find a group of others that is taking a stand against something which sucks away so much of a person’s time for no reason.
November 17, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Melody
Oh dear–I forgot to include my last name (and it looks so much more official when the league membership includes both first and last names!) So here it is—Melody Wood
November 18, 2010 at 4:15 pm
roxana
I would like to become an auxiliary member. I would like to meet me friends face to face, not on facebook.
thanks,
November 19, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Stephen DuPont
I would like nothing more than to become an official member. As evidence of my sincerity, I point your attention to the link for the site I’ve developed.
http://friendsnomore.com/
November 21, 2010 at 1:54 pm
FacebookFails
Well, I deactivated my account 2 years ago. I got on facebk when it first came out and there was no hype surrounding it. Now I see how evil it really is. It’s evil in its purest form. I am accepting this invitation of membership into the AFLI. Every day more and more people are wasting their brain cells all because of what? Lack of self-interest, lack of genuine interest in others and boredom are frontrunners. There is something very wrong about facebook and I can’t put my finger on it. I keep telling people this but they just look at me like I have two heads or something. It’s like you’re not human unless you’re on facebook. Facebook is bad news for the future. I’m serious about this movement and I would like to take on an auxilliary position.
November 22, 2010 at 5:22 am
Carl Wulff
Hello all,
I am an engineering student, and I enjoy genuine human interaction. I do not use facebook (there may be an existing empty account i.e. no “friends”).
I may not the most eloquent or well-spoken individual, but I hold an iron resolve in my beliefs refusing to compromise on matters of truth. My goal as an engineer will be to serve society to the best of my ability. This is my purpose. Please allow me to become a full member of this league so that I may be of service to this worthy cause.
Carl.
November 28, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Matthew Smith
I am an average guy in everything I do. I was against facebook and myspace but somehow tricked into signing up. I am so happy to be done with facebook, it feels like I have escaped from a prison. I am thankful for a website where I can express the deep sorrow that it has caused me and hope that we can figure out a way to put an end to it. My sympathy goes out to those who are still trapped inside.
November 28, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Matthew Smith
p.s: I would like to be an official member.
December 1, 2010 at 6:17 pm
M. G. Moen
Sign me up oficial, I just spent an hour at work in a meeting deciding whether or not my Firm needs to be a part of Facebook and Twitter…
I had my Unfriending in May, 2010, and have been FaceBook free ever since.
December 4, 2010 at 2:30 am
Firdaus
Dear President,
I would like to sign up as an official member of the AFLI. This is because I believe in the fight against Facebook is crucial in the long run.
All my allies who have been against Facebook have faltered over the years in spite of them putting up a fight and not wanting to join Facebook. The last of which has been the most heart wrenching of all, it being my own girlfriend. I am alone in my fight where I am now.
Uniting with you as part of this League gives me great honor and a greater strength to carry on. Facebook (along with Twitter and the likes) makes this world a much more convoluted and noisier place. I long for peace, tranquility and serenity once again.
May our fight be a winning one,
Firdaus
December 11, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Chris STone
Hi there,
I used to be a member of facebook. I stopped using it when I realized how much information is given away without your own knowledge. It shocks me that most people do not know that anything you upload or put on your page becomes 100% property of Zuckerberg’s company. And there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.
Please sign me up as a full member.
Fighting the demons of Facebook,
Stoneman
December 14, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Space Alien M
Hullo, I am from Venus. I do not like Facebook. No one on Venus has account. I am glad that I don’t. It is bad. Forgive me yucky grammar, I am translating from Venian. English is big different from Venian.
Truly your,
A reallio, truelio Space Alien.
P.S. This was clearly written by Space Alien
March 24, 2011 at 9:49 pm
kingmob
Really? I thought it was written by someone else entirely….
December 15, 2010 at 11:35 am
Adriana
I am against Facebook because I found out that the coolest people online are the most socially inept people in real life. I used to have a Myspace page back in 2006 and was bombarded with a variety of peoples beliefs, promotions and agendas. Not to mention for some reason, people want to compete as if there is a reward… Needless to say I have NEVER joined Facebook and NEVER will.
December 18, 2010 at 9:46 am
matt
Facebook leads towards decay of society. When will guys come out on the street and hang out together once more ? I can’t deny that facebook can help you find people you want to contact, but why than it stays just on that. Also facebook leads to misdirected mental construction of socializing that once was so great.
Destroy it !
December 20, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Tarah Mills
Hello,
I’ve spent the last 10 hours researching the different effects of Facebook on society. It’s shocking how global this is becoming, and how…well pathetic the social site is. It was created by a very intelligent man who knew what human beings were vulnerable towards. In general, he knew creating a site that makes people feel accepted by others, will ultimately attract anyone. It’s disappointing to know, that a man with such knowledge would not be sympathetic whatsoever to his users, but that is the money hungry mind that has been created by our society. It’s mind blogging to know that now, psychologists have even created a diagnosis for facebook abusers. I’ve been one, and today after seeing the numbers this site brings in annually, and how much of our privacy it sells to advertising, etc, I gave myself a big slap in the face for not seeing it sooner. A man in society has created a handfull of problems for our nation to deal with when we already have enough. The worse part, is that generally, Americans are so naive and put too much trust in the government to protect them, when they don’t realize how broad our laws can be in a situation like this. Facebook is connected with twitter, pandora, etc. They all have the rights to information on us. Then the whole issue with how the website affects our mind…how we feel satisfied the more friends, notifications, invites we have. It’s pathetic. We can’t even say hello in person to more than half of these people. And last night, I saw a friend of mine open a “LHS Gossip” group created by the class of 2010 at a highschool, where you post rumors on the status of certain students…..Seriously? This is what our nation has come to? CNN says twitter me, or facebook like us? We give this Mark guy that much power over a nation? It’s INSANE. And it’s sad that more people don’t or won’t acknowledge it. I’d love to be apart of this movement.
Sincerely,
Tarah Mills
December 24, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Firdaus
very well said, Tarah. i like what you said about the LHS Gossip group. this is indeed how low society has come down to with the advent of facebook. welcome to the fight. good to have you among our ranks, comrade.
December 30, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Tarah Mills
Thank you. It’s nice to know I can be a part of this. What do we do now?
December 22, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Jeremy O.
I wish to join the A.F.L.I.
So glad I’m not alone!
Many of my peers babble on and on about how Facebook is so awesome, what their highscore in Farmville is, how they found the love of their life on Facebook, blah blah blah… I am tired of all the mind-numbing nonsense spilling out of their mouths! People who grew up with Facebook (myself NOT included) are going to be more susceptible (or more likely) to jumping on any bandwagon that passes by them in the future.
I actually don’t know if that made any sense; it turned into a bit of a rant.
December 24, 2010 at 8:13 am
Richard brown
I would like to become a member facebook is destroying the way we live and our privacy my daughter spends all her time on there we need to take the giant down
December 27, 2010 at 2:59 am
Fay
I absolutely want to be an official member, as soon as possible. Facebook is unhealthy. Facebook scares the hell out of me. L’Être et le Paraître…
December 27, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Melissa Taylor
I would like to be a member of AFLI. Probably not a month goes by that I’m not asked to join Facebook. What really is telling is that people ask you to join so you can see their photos and learn their news. It’s not: “Please join so I can learn more about YOU.” I would assume that most people spend more time posting photos and info. about themselves than they actually do reading what others have to say. A real friendship is give and take, one-on-one. Facebook is one big “form letter” Christmas letter, sent more than once annually.
December 28, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Charissa
Facebook is perverted and unnatural. I am not a part of it anymore and I never will be again. I could write pages and pages on the evils I’ve seen…..but it wouldn’t surprise anyone because we’ve all seen it. I hope someday the monstrosity will be destroyed. Maybe people will start living again. I would love to become a member.
December 30, 2010 at 5:25 am
Fergus Young
Hailing from New Zealand. I would like to put my name down to join the AFLI as an “Official Member”.
August 23, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Rachel Morton
Hi Fergus,
I am the producer of a breakfast radio show in Christchurch on RDU98.5fm. Would you be willing to do a radio interview with my host to discuss why you are against facebook?
Let me know – breakfast@rdu.org.nz
January 4, 2011 at 11:28 am
J. A. Sutton
I would like to formally pledge my support to this league. My problem with Facebook is not that its evil, it is that its boring. Millions of people are squandering millions of hours, and the sum total of human productivity is suffering.
I also bristle at the idea that it is anti-social NOT to be a member of facebook. When I want to talk to someone, I call them or send them an email. What is more social than that?
My major anti-facebook anecdote is as follows: I work at a restaurant. My boss decided that all managers should be on facebook for promotional purposes. The office manager made me an account, using a picture of me she pulled off the website of a restaurant I worked at previously. (It was a bad picture, too, but whatever…) She added my partner as my ‘friend,’ and that was it. I was on facebook, and I had a friend. I flatly refused to participate, and the boss relented. I then logged into facebook 1 more time, to try to cancel the account. I gave up after an hour, unsuccessful. That account is still there, and my office email is still constantly inundated by friend requests and messages. Facebook has given me nothing but frustration and annoyance.
I don’t hate facebook, per se, but I will not be a part of it. I do not necessarily feel like I am ideologically in tune with every aspect of this group, but when I googled the phrase “anti-facebook league” I was delighted to get a hit. Just for being there, you lot have my support. Consider me an auxiliary member.
January 7, 2011 at 7:16 am
Ciaran Lynch
I find facebook to be not a nice way to communicate.
It is destroying our youths social abilities.
Sign me up as a member.
January 7, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Nick
If politicians and regulators actually cared about anything or anybody, they would probe into how Facebook violates fundamental rights outlined in the Constitution.
January 10, 2011 at 8:44 am
Titia
I’d like to join the ALFI! Such a great thing! I hate facebook and all people who are members of this conspiracy! “Blablabla look at me!” That’s what they are all screaming!
Happy to see smart people !
Titia the french girl
January 18, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Mike M
they will all die in the zombie apocalypse
April 7, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Marissa
LOL…
January 12, 2011 at 12:47 am
Dane
I can’t express how glad I am to finally find a website devoted to this great push in the internet community. Facebook is annihilating our ability to communicate as human beings should. Creating extreme drama to fill our lives with more stress. Manipulating our children to become anit-social beings bent on living off other peoples expressions. Sad to say I’ve seen Facebook destroy relationships that we’re 20+ years steady. Anyway I can use my time better than being on Facebook, makes me happy, but finding a community to stand behind just gives me more reason to turn my computer on. To anyone who is reading this and has swayed from Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and all the rest of those mind melting social substances, I applaud you. Let’s just hope more can see that greener grass. Being the most I can to such a gathering would give me great pleasure, please consider me as an Official Member.
January 13, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Alex
Sorry, it was posted too early……
But I still cannot express to say what I feel about facebook. I really don’t wanna start because I have to much to say. In my country, 45% of the poupilation’s a member, and it’s all over the news all the time (for some reason)……
Alex,
Norway
January 15, 2011 at 3:08 am
Robert Meadowcroft
At last people like me who distrust what facebook is all about… how it is reshaping the internet, can’t even use basic programs anymore without being bombarded with facebook “IN YOUR FACE”…I have never been a member and never will, cannot see the point in commenting on my every movement during the day, week, month. Nice to know I am not alone in the world in remembering that we are born with the intelligence to communicate verbally with our fellow human beings.
January 18, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Mike M
I have never had any good experiences with facebook. It has ruined many friendships and relationships. Waste of time! People say its to “keep in touch” Pick up a PHONE! Write a letter! I dont wanna see your dumb drunk pictures, or all the shots you did over the weekend. Or your side pics cause you think you look pretty. Who really needs their info about their entire life out there to see by people you dont even KNOW?
if you are on facebook you are a waste of time and air that people with real social skills could really take advantage of. Put that in your pipe and smoke it zuckerburger
January 18, 2011 at 8:09 pm
Danielle
I’m sick of seeing Facebook monopolize the internet! I’m sick of seeing Facebook control my friends’ lives. It’s time for a change. We need to go back to actually communicating face to face and not having Zukerburg’s insignia on every single website, begging for a facebook login. The internet needs to be what it once was, before Facebook cataloging everyone’s lives and Google taking over Youtube to excessively sell ad space.
When I see this website, I feel humanity still has hope. We can still go back to having the internet as a tool and talking face to face. All we need is for more people to actually think for once in their lives.
Danielle, Las Vegas NV
January 19, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Danny
I wish to become a AFLI member. Facebook is for people who are weak and need to be reminded how many “friends” they think they have and feel accepted.
January 19, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Andrew
I have decided to delete my facebook account. 400 friends and I hardly talk to any of them. I am a man, not a profile. If John Wayne was alive I doubt he would have a facebook page….
March 24, 2011 at 9:55 pm
kingmob
That (John Wayne comment) is probably the funniest thing I’ve read all week. I’m not making fun either. Just… brilliant.
January 20, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Ian Trevor Watson
Hello. I don’t believe I have been as excited about a cause as this. I have felt alone in my fear of the way this “social network” has taken the masses but always felt I was alone in my stand against it. I happened upon this wonderful site and all of its wisdom and I feel that this cause, the way the site has been painstakingly put together and speakers from administrative to amateur with their words to strengthen and allow culture to keep at bay if not bring down mass sensationalism, is about the closest thing to this country’s saving grace as anything could ever be.
I would be hounoured if you were to take me up on my endless support and faithful service I could provide to you by providing me with any type of membership you might deem appropriate. Thank you so much for your time and consideration.
Ian Watson, The United States of America
January 20, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Coral
I’m having a conflicting battle in my head constantly on FB. I think I may have deactivated my FB more times then I can count. I always reactivate. I want to be free from my false impression of needing open communication of that nature. It hurts people’s feelings, misconstrues information, puts people in a more unhappy place. To find groups of people who have tossed aside the need for a machine such a FB would be amazing.
January 25, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Phillip Mosby
I, Phil Mosby, wish to become a member of the AFLI and hereby voice my opposition to FaceBook.
January 26, 2011 at 4:46 am
gregg riehl
i feel facebook is the same as writting things on the bathroom wall in high school.”friends” really? yrs id like to be a member of afli,and be involved as much as as posiable.thank you!!!!
January 28, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Slender
This is a great idea. Facebook is for FOOLS who either need attention, need to convince others that what they are doing is better, or all-in-all LACK SELF ESTEEM. Go jump off a bridge – everyone else is doing it. Just another way to avoid real verbal interaction. Our youth is in big trouble. Thanks. Bye.
February 10, 2011 at 4:21 pm
jay
Im sick of this social networking. seems like everyday people are more affective there than in real life…i want to be a member for this group
February 11, 2011 at 2:41 am
g
I have a unique viewpoint. I knew Mark Zuckerberg when we were kids. I will refrain from being too specific, as i do not wish to be identified.
i have no ill will toward him whatsoever, and actually am both proud of him and sad for him.
a few of us who knew him decided never to join because of a general feeling of being slighted by him during these younger years. Unfortunately, we had no idea that since its release it would grow to a point where not being a member of his club could be used against us both socially and professionally. this has been a great victory by him over us. to understand this better, i must explain that there are those who are socially awkward who really want friends and there are those who are socially awkward and are unliked because they intentionally choose to disassociate. for mark, his choice to disassociate from us in this small circle at our grade school to me is only testimony to his lack of regard for the people whose lives he influences. Put simply, facebook coming from him specifically was a slap in the face.
distancing my own personal feelings from the equation, i do not understand the hype and now all these years later, i’m the one who feels left out.
But like all great hypes, there are great disappointments, i feel that the collective unconscious of people is fickle, but chartable, and the general social mood of people in the world will determine facebooks future validity, and not its teams ability to come up with increasingly obscure ways to aggregate demographics into trendy applications.
Its rapid ignition will eventually be followed by an outright rejection, as would a peaking stock, when it dawns that its allusions of giving us an individual voice from the ether will seem no more meaningful than talking to a cell wall.
Lastly, i wish to express that no platform by which the masses can voice their opinions will ever be truly meaningful. Facebook and all social media alike perpetuate narcissism and selfishness and are either met with apathy or the positive reinforcement of such behavior. for those interested in understanding this cultural problem more, you may be interested in this book.
http://www.narcissismepidemic.com/
g,
dobbs ferry ny
February 14, 2011 at 9:37 am
Joe Moorman
I would like to join the AFLI and show opposition to Facebook, as well as all other forms of tyranny over personal expression.
February 19, 2011 at 11:21 am
Angie
I wish to become an official AFLI member. I deleted my Facebook account 6 months ago, after only a few weeks on it, because I hated the entire concept. Thank you for your time.
Angie, France.
February 21, 2011 at 11:48 am
Celia
I wish to join the anti-Facebook League. I find it to be an outlet for people to be narcissistic and create a new image for themselves. Further, why stalk your friends on the internet when you can pick up a phone and call?
February 23, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Tristan
Id like to join because all I hear about is facebook and it makes me want to shoot myself (figuratively.)
Tristan
March 2, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Heather S.
This is to all the friends that I’ve lost to the whore that is Facebook. With that, I toast to AFLI.
March 9, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Russell Thompson
Can you join if you are from the UK? I am on facebook, and I can’t see myself coming off it because I need the interaction with students, as I am a musician and am behind all the better musicians. I have chosen to do the ‘can’t beat them join them’ way, but this FB is the only real thing I have a problem with. I don’t see myself progressing as a human being, and as an intellectual logging on to FB and witnessing messages like ‘I just had a w**k’. That’s where it just gets ridiculous, hence why I decided to come on here. I’m not interested in social networking sites, and think they should be banned.
March 13, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Régis Blain
I join the league as a honorary militant because I’m not American (I worked 3 years in NYC). I’m sad that the world doesn’t understand the true contribution of the US : Adams, Lincoln, Luther King and Malcom X, Thoreau, Emerson, Dickinson and Salinger.
Régis from Paris (country of La Fayette, Rochambeau and the noble Huguenots)
March 17, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Kevin Turner
Please add me to the Anti-Facebook movement.
First, there are certian individuals who work in jobs that do not allow for the use of Socail Media Sites.
Second, I personally find it a waste of time. If I want to stay connected with my friends, I can e-mail them, call them, or visit.
Lastly, I am personally getting VERY Sick and Tired of having Facebook “shoved down my throat”. I mean, at the moment it is EVERYWHERE! I am constantly hearing on the TV and Radio….”Follow us on Facebook!”…..or “Friend us on Facebook!” {gag}. Enough is enough. Honestly there are those of us that do not care at all about Facebook, and I am sick and tired of being look at as some sort of weirdo because I do not have a Facebook Account.
Evenmore troubling is the fact that may bussinesses are moving to Facebook and I have see an artical that stated the Facebook may become the only ‘portal’ for purchasing items online. {yesh}
March 17, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Gina
I just deactived my facebook. I have realized I have such an addictive personality. I realized that I could so much more with my time. I realized that everyone on facebook thinks its there alter ego to say and act however they want because they dont have the courage to act like that face to face. We stopped being real and act like we are in a fantasy world. You will receive nothing in the future for spending endless hours on facebook reading about other peoples lives. So instead how about we sign off and start living ours.
March 18, 2011 at 11:21 am
Sarah
I wish to become an official member of A.F.L.I., as I support and agree with your values. Facebook is a disease, the we, the wise ones, have the cure to save the world from it!
March 22, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Matt Sanders
I will join as an auxiliary member, for now. As a non-Facebook user and being extremely militant against it, I have no desire to be a trend-sucking dillitante.
March 27, 2011 at 5:07 am
Boris Drezgic
Please, i want to join the AFLI. I am from one small country in Eastern Europe, and you are only anti facebook organisation that i can join, and the best. In my country there is not organisation like that, because there is too many people on FB. FaceBook is destroying our communication and way to impress our feelings when speaking with someone or friends. I’ve never been of FB. Thank you
Boris Drezgic
March 27, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Bryan Edgar
I Bryan Edgar declare my intentions to join the anti-facebook league.
March 30, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Drew Bernard
I would like to become a member simply because i hate “the facebook.”
If the amount of time people spend on Facebook would be put towards constructing a better world, so much could be accomplished. But on a less serious note, i really can’t stand the douche bags that take it so seriously. I’ve been Facebook sober for about a month…..aw yeah.
April 3, 2011 at 8:48 am
Real Person in Connecticut
Kudos for creating a wonderful site with an undeniably necessary message. I am truly no luddite; I wouldn’t have a job without computers. However, I feel fb (I have a hard time even typing the name of the site) is the most outwardly false sense of socialism ever. I cringe when someone says, “my fb friend…”. I was listening to the radio, enjoying their comedic session of callers to an on-air guest the other day, only to be disappointed when they ended the segment, “go to our fb page…”. The internet can be a wonderful place for information, insight and entertainment, but I feel fb has done to it what television did to books. The world is out THERE-sunrises, sunsets, children laughing, people talking face to face. Time to truly interact NOT inter(net) ACT. I would be honored to become a member. Thank you.
April 4, 2011 at 12:55 am
Chloe R. Stewart
I, Chloe R. Stewart, hereby request to become a loyal member of AFLI. It warms my heart to have found this organization. I am completely surrounded by FaceFreaks and in the midst of their brainwash cycle I have been questioning my own sanity….
In my world of comfortable privacy, dignity, self respect, and my respect for people in general, I quietly have been wondering if there was one single soul out there like me: young, firendly, but with NO social network. Now I am sure there are many.
Regarding and honoring free will, including becoming a Facebook member, I keep to myself my opinion of it during conversations (sometimes I will go off on a tangent
) and by not hopping on the bandwagon. But I can take no longer the condemnation I recieve for MY choice not to be part of it. So here is MY chance to finally disapprove. Disapprove of the degradation of society, human sincerity, human interaction, our future (generations etc.), to name a few.
Facebook History: Never ever ever
April 4, 2011 at 4:08 am
Gina B
I did have a Facebook page, but I deactivated my account. It’s actually insulting that it says that I can just sign back in whenever I want to reactivate. Didn’t they understand? I DON’T WANT TO BE ON THERE ANYMORE! It’s like Facebook is taunting me to log back in and waste more time reading useless information. No privacy. Lack of REAL HUMAN CONNECTION. Time waster. Drama. Broken relationships. Etc. Etc. Etc. I love the 100 Household Items…post on this site because there are SO MANY things I would rather do with my time than reading what so and so in the next town over is doing every 5 seconds. Also, I AM SO SICK OF SEEING THE F EVERYWHERE!!! Online. In magazines. At stores. Commercials. Ugh! If I keep seeing that F, I’m going to need therapy! And can someone please tell me why anyone would want hundreds of people to know their EXACT location every moment of the day??? I’ve been complaining about Fb to my bf for months, and didn’t realize there are other people that feel the same way I do, which is why I was relieved to find this site!
April 4, 2011 at 4:20 am
Gina B
Forgot to say in between all of my fb complaints that I would like to be an official member, and thank you for creating this site.
April 4, 2011 at 11:37 pm
Russell Thompson
Hi. I have been recieving comment emails, so I presume that means I am a member? If not, please can you make me an auxiliary member. The sooner social networking sites are banned the better. Not just facebook. The whole lot, because even if facebook is taken down, another one will be put up. It’s very depressing.
April 6, 2011 at 5:10 pm
Christian R Groft
I Christian Groft wish to become a member of the AFLI, I randomly stumbled across this page while searching around for Anti-Facebook sites. CANT BELIEVE ONE ACTUALLY EXISTS!! HOORAY!! finally other people who feel the same way i do about social networking sites (Facebook,Myspace,Twitter) DOWN WITH THEM ALL!
April 9, 2011 at 11:13 pm
diana k
I’m glad this isolationist social movement hasn’t permeated all minds. I’d like to be a full member of the AFLI, Facebook was a mistake, and a stupid one at that. Thank you for creating this organization!
April 11, 2011 at 9:02 am
tina angelico
I wish to become a member of the AFLI. I hate facebook. Im glad I found this site. Thank you.
April 11, 2011 at 9:48 am
kingmob
The response video page could do with a few encouraging comments from some intelligent individuals:
April 11, 2011 at 11:00 am
Firdaus
I am already an official member and I’d just like to say it gives me great pride in seeing the increase in membership here. We are in this together and I am sure there will be more who will be joining our ranks. For now, we wait. We wait and we will act when we have to. Facebook will fall one day.
April 19, 2011 at 8:52 am
Amir Medhat
Never had a facebook account, and never will.
Facebook aims to lower our minds and IQ. It will take a while, but finaly
it’s users will realize that, hopefully not after it’s too late.
I’d like to become a member of AFLI as I really believe in it.
Amir
May 2, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Meaghan Busch
I am to be seventeen on August 30th, and I’m fairly certain that I’m the only one in my high school without a Facebook page–but I’m totally proud of it! Down with Facebook!
–Meaghan Busch
May 5, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Nomi
Facebook is brian washing! i, Naomi Hanson, wish to become a member of the A.F.I.L
May 7, 2011 at 8:38 am
Paola
Hello to everyone!
I’m from Bulgaria.Here Facebook is the most important site!!!Every second word is “facebook”…I feel so sick of it!Sometimes I feel like an outsider but I know that I enjoy my life more then those people who use “social networking”!
Have a nice day…without Facebook!:)
May 13, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Sami Zeigler
Please make me a AFLI member! I hate facebook and everything about it with a passion and would LOVE to be a part of this group.
May 16, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Brandon Bressi
I would like to become an auxiliary member so I can help restore some sort of life to my generation and generations to come. I have been anti-Facebook since its genesis. When people ask me if they can find me on Facebook, I simply reply “no” and get looked at as if I am some sort of alien life form who just fell to earth yesterday. I am concerned about people loosing moments to deeply connect with the self and others around them (people, environment, nature, etc.) I ask you all then, what solutions are you coming up with to help individuals return to the essence of their humanity? Although Facebook is a major issue and concern, there are many other factors to consider. Are there ways you are helping educate people who use Facebook about their privacy rights and other risks? I have the same disgust as you all with the shallowness which occurs in this realm as well. People are bored, people (for the most part) lead pretty mundane lives, and Facebook has served as a tool to escape that, even if it is temporarily. They are able to assume an identify or identities and live it out in this cyber world of emptiness. Let’s reconnect with ourselves and the world which surrounds us! I am all open to hear solutions to these very REAL problems. The future effects of this sort of behavior has yet to be seen.
May 16, 2011 at 7:07 pm
nitintapkir@hotmail.com
Facebook is for pretentious people living in an imaginary world trying to mask reality.
May 17, 2011 at 10:40 am
Kyle M. Eads
I, Kyle M. Eads wish to be enrolled as a member of the A.F.L.I. I’m also, one of Marissa Feiring’s friends, and you won’t catch me on facebook!
May 28, 2011 at 11:45 pm
Matthew K.
I am Matthew K. I am in my mid 20′s. Have never had a facebook or myspace account. I was against both concepts from their inceptions. They are to impersonal I have occasionally thought of caving in and getting an account, but have still been able to resist. I am glad to find there is a group of like-minded individuals, who still prefer more personal means of communication with their friends.
I think i would like to look into becoming an axillary member, and would like to further read about your organization and what it does. I will browse around your site and take a look at any information you forward over to me.
Its refreshing to know there are other people who feel the same way about facebook as I.
Matt K.
May 31, 2011 at 8:15 am
Beth
Hi everyone, I’m Beth from the Philippines,I would like to become an auxiliary member. I couldn’t agree more with all your comments. This is the day that I deactivated my Facebook account. After 3 years of using it, it USED me too. I just woke up one day and felt sick of seeing my fake friends and non-sense posts from people that I don’t even talk to for ages. Some online friends won’t even say ”hi” to me in person but would chat me up on facebook. THE NERVE! I’m tired of that. It ticked me off seeing how active their life is online but no one knows they’re just bumming around at home. Now, I’ve come to realize, whether I have fb or not, I know my real friends will and could always find a way to get in touch with me. Hello real life!!!
June 5, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Wendy
Thank GOD! a forum for like-minded anti-Facebookers! I hesitantly joined to keep in touch with international friends from grad school. Getting constant friend requests from people I do not remember from high school sent me over the edge; good riddance!
June 7, 2011 at 4:08 pm
dridri[85/93]
Hi, I just discovered the AFLI, and I want to join your league !
I’m a french boy who seen every of his friends subscribing on this website, but I’m really sure that this is not a good thing. Lot of people waste their time on facebook..
For my part I’ve never been a member of this site.
-Adrien Aubry (sorry for my poor english :X )
June 8, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Austin Goetz
I wish to become a member of the AFLI because I think of myself as an advocate of this “anti-facebook” belief. I used to have one, but now I hate facebook, from having a first hand experience, and feel that it is a digressive force within our society based in our “progressive” technology. We are just getting more and more pathetic and concerned with the everyday distractions such as what lady gaga is going to wear next. Stupid bs like that makes the headlines, along with facebook, and only contributes to our worldwide society turning into an ever digressing failure…
June 8, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Jacquelyn D.
Please make me an official member of AFLI. I first got a facebook my freshman year of college and hardly ever used it. I am someone who likes my privacy and I believe facebook to be a shallow meeting place for self-centered people who have nothing better to do with their time. I also believe that facebook has contributed to how messed up our society is now. Divorces have occured as a result of facebook. Seriously, because you are facebook friends with someone does not mean you are friends in real life. Yet you get to know everything about them, who they’re dating, what they did last night, what they are doing this very moment- who cares! Also, when I deactivated my facebook I later learned that my account wasn’t completely gone. I could still login and my account will be reactivated. I had to look it up online how to actually DELETE my facebook for good. It was kind of tricky, they try to hide that part from you. But the fact that they don’t offer you that option is infuriating! I hope that more people are able to see the light, like the many members of this fine group.
June 14, 2011 at 10:24 am
Beth
Hey Jacquelyn, i wasn’t aware of this, so how did you really get rid of it for good? Help me
Thanks!
June 28, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Jacquelyn D.
Hi Beth, sorry it took me awhile to respond. First I went to this website:
http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
and under the short method there’s a link that takes you to the account deletion page, but first it makes you sign in, so if you already deactivated your account you have to reactivate it in order to delete it. So after I signed in I remember it wouldn’t let me delete it at first, it took me to another page to change my privacy settings. I don’t know why it does this, I guess they really don’t want you to delelet your facebook. So after I did that I think I was finally able to get through to the “delete my account” page and that’s how I did it!
June 14, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Russell Thompson
I am not joining this anti facebook league, because this is pointless. You need to start campaigns against facebook. This is just another website. So what? People join, post a comment and that’s it. It’s pointless.
June 23, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Russell Thompson
I apologise about my last comment. I just think more action should be taken, however I should not have said anything against this. This is a positive step, and after being off facebook for quite a while now, I would like to join.
June 24, 2011 at 10:33 pm
JS
Thank you for standing up against the Facebook machine. I would like to join the A.F.I.L. along with all the other fine people saying no to Facebook.
June 28, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Gina Rivas
Please, accept me as a member….but why, oh why is here a facebook login logo?! No, there is no safe place left in this virtual universe…………………!
July 4, 2011 at 9:37 pm
Mark Ballard
Please make me an official member of your protest.
I hear now that 1 in 5 divorce decrees mention Facebook.
FB is probably the worst invention in online history.
Someone important once said that you will only have one or two TRUE friends in your entire lifetime. I hate the way FB has redefined the word Friend so you can have a false and unconnected experience with hundreds.
I hate it all around.
July 5, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Kel
Membership Request. Thank you Savanna Matt Doug and Ted G.!
AFLI Chicago folks reply. Lets connect over warm coffee not cold mouses.
Reply, I’ll be sure to continue living and not obs check for updates!
Hope those expanding their true life networks can use this an informaed playground…..
July 5, 2011 at 10:38 pm
Adrian
Facebook is virtual and will never never never take the place of genuine human contact. Count me in. Facebook needs resistance. I don’t need a Facebook account to tell me where I stand amongst people whom truly don’t care. I’m deeply saddened by millions of people who have chosen to plaster their personal life on that hideous website. People keep saying stuff like “but it’s full of people I’ve lost contact with” but I say…what if some people were meant to be left in the past? How can we move foward while clinging on to the safety blanket of the past? Like I said…Count me in. I proudly stand amongst you in opposition to facebook.
July 14, 2011 at 3:40 am
simon hone
At last a voice of sanity in all this madness.Facebook as far as I’m concerned is an antisocial network.What’s social about sitting on your own in front of a computer screen,or gazing at a smart phone when surrounded by people you could actually talk to?Please sign me up as a full member.
July 14, 2011 at 4:50 am
Dean
Hi, count me in as a member for the A.F.L.I
I hate facebook, why “cyber friends” if you can have real friends? I had an account on facebook, but it’s wortheless, my mailbox was full of this junk: (person) poked you, join (group), play farmvile….
I don’t need facebook to find friends or a nice girl, that’s why we got a voice and a mouth to speak to a person
good that I’m not the only one.
this is the best site ever !!!!
July 24, 2011 at 11:34 am
Corina
I feel that facebook is dumbing down the general population and is the ultimate outlet for narcissism. Facebook users are self-absorbed and ignorant of their inflated egos. Facebook, the company itself wants to give out the information users provide to make profits and is not in any way, shape or form protecting the users that depend on it so much. I’ve been enlightened for almost a year now and I will never do a social networking site again. I would like to become a member and I would like to help with the movement as much as possible. This is a great cause ! People please see the light ! Don’t live a “life” on facebook, live a life outside! See in the light of day people !
July 27, 2011 at 1:30 am
Nick Cosmann
I wish to become a full member of AFLI. We MUST take a stand against Facebook, not only because it is contributing to the downfall of Western civilization by diluting the communication process even further, but because Facebook is an evil, near-omnipresent entity that is branching out towards every non-verbal form of communication. Not only that, but everything put on Facebook is NO LONGER YOURS once you put in on there, and if Facebook is not stopped they will soon become big enough to be able to put a stranglehold on the entire network of communication at their whim, sell our information to the governments of the world to lend a hand towards the New World Order, and use any incriminating information against us to keep the people down and take away our most basic rights. FACEBOOK MUST BE STOPPED!!!!
July 27, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Sean L.
Ok Savanna, you have convinced me. I would like to be an auxiliary member for now
July 29, 2011 at 3:36 am
Vukomanov
I am a big fan of every Anti-Facebook society, and I would like to do what I can to help you fight against that Facebook disease. Unfortunately, I can not offer you much apart from my sincere support. But however, hope remains as long as we grow stronger, no matter where are we from, what our beliefs are. All that is important is that we stand together against our enemy, and that we will not surrender that easily. I would like to be a part of this great resistance movement against Facebook, and I hope that my nationality will not be a problem, for I am from Serbia. Best of luck to you all!
July 31, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Kit
My name is Kristine Williams and I want to be an official member of the AFLI. I’ve never had a facebook account nor have I ever wanted one. I almost succumbed to the pressure recently after changing my email address. My aversion to The Facebook got me wondering, “Isn’t there an ANTI-facebook?” There are a few. This one’s the best and I’m glad it exixts.
August 4, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Klas Klasson
I think that facebook is the worst. You spend hours waiting for someone to leave comment in your logg and try to win the silence competon of who has the most friends on facebook. They spend hours every day of there life just looking at other people. why not just meet them in real person istead? evey single person in my school has it. im the only one to had the courage to say no to emoty internet relationships.
August 8, 2011 at 9:44 pm
martha p
I HATE FACEBOOK!!
I say it every day. I have tried to delete my profile and failed. I was sent an email asking me if I was sure I wanted to delete it. If I was sure, they would delete it in 15 days. It never happened.
Every day on printed media, radio or TV-it’s Facebook or Twitter, this or that.
It’s BIG BROTHER using a very adolescent technique-
peer pressure to get your information. Names, photos and your life shared so openly.
Biggest time waster-next to the TV.
I HATE FACEBOOK.
I need to be an active member of AFLI.
Where can I get a t-shirt????
Martha P
August 15, 2011 at 9:59 am
calvarypatriot
Martha,
Glad to have you join! As for shirts, I’m still scouting out the options. But here are a few ideas:
- one about social networking in general: http://www.despair.com/somevedi.html
- “Since When is Friend a Verb” shirt from zazzle: http://www.zazzle.com/since_when_is_friend_a_verb_tshirt-235421039595952258
- “If I Wanted to Social Network I’d Call You” shirt from zazzle: http://www.zazzle.com/another_anti_facebook_tshirt-235076184124551286
- classic anti-facebook shirt from cafepress: http://www.cafepress.com/+anti_facebook_light_tshirt,261252946
Be sure to let us know if you find others you like!
Thanks,
Savvy J. Buckner
August 13, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Danny
How can you be rock ‘n roll if you’ve got facebook?
November 10, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Carey
Haha you can’t. Being a voyeuristic follower desperate for an audience for their vanity is so not rock and roll.
August 15, 2011 at 8:44 am
Aster
Finally, some likeminded individuals. If you ever need help across the pond: I’m pro-AFLI in the Netherlands.
PS. Does not being American make me constitutionally unable to join?
August 15, 2011 at 9:43 am
calvarypatriot
You are definitely welcome to join! I plan on updating the constitution to clarify that.
Thanks for the support!
S. J. Buckner
August 23, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Tom Knoll
Hello AFLI-members,
I detest Facebook and social networks in general with a passion, so I’d be happy to join you. I’m only 17 but from time to time I wish I would be a lot older, so that I could’ve lived through some more years without the social pressure to be on Facebook. It’d worse than everything we ever saw on the internet. It destroys friendships and relationships, it helps you to stay isolated at home and become anti-social, and it makes people who sell our data rich.
I just hate it.
September 13, 2011 at 5:40 am
Angus Paterson
Yes! Another 17 year old who doesn’t feel the need to be more of a conformist!
August 27, 2011 at 11:38 am
Sharon Froehlich
I hate Facebook and am glad to find some support. It’s 1984, Amerika!
August 27, 2011 at 11:42 am
Sharon Froehlich
Oh, I would like to become a member! Thank you!
September 1, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Lydia
I would like to join the A.F.L.I. to help to lead people, by example, away from a horrible site which destroys traditional relationships of all kinds and reveals private information to the world (and the government) that should be kept personal. Thank You for what you are doing,
Lydia (POTP!)
September 8, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Sam Williams
I, Samuel R Williams, being of sound mind and body do hereby request to become a member of the AFLI. I always knew that I would be the last person on the planet to join a social netDORKing site and am thrilled to have found a comminty that I would be proud to be a part of. It pleases my soul to know what there is resitance to the anti-social and non-productive cults of social netDORKers. Facedork, Mywaste, and Tweeker are souless, valueless cancers in our society.
I leave you with a Haiku:
Am I on Facebook?
I have what you call “real friends”.
Go and tweet that dork.
September 9, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Falon G.
I would love to join AFLI! Ive never had a facebook account and never intend to. I love that people look at me like im diseased when i say ” no, i don’t have a facebook.” Ive been waiting to find this site because i believe that facebook is destroying the act of human contact, socializing, and privacy. Thank you for this site.
September 9, 2011 at 11:45 pm
Aeriel
I thought I was the only sane person in this world brainwashed by social networking. I’m sixteen and wish I could have lived in a time where people went outside and seemed to enjoy the simple things in life. I guess that’s is old fashioned now. Isn’t that disturbing? It’s all about having 600 friends rather than 3 real ones. I want to write letters. I want to ride horses on my Saturday mornings. Cheers to a more fulfilling life.
I definitely want to join this site. I’D LOVE A T-SHIRT.
September 12, 2011 at 6:34 am
9803349843
I left facebook Cuz it make everything public from your bedroom to bathroom. it’s like Stripping outdoors.
September 12, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Soul Sojourner
Facebook is porn for personalities. I never desired to make an account, and when I did, it was for the promotion of my website, as Facebook has killed online discussion boards. After some time with an account that I never payed attention to, occasionally (once a month or less) checking it only to find game invites and stupid apps and weird people as my friends, I deleted everything to do with my account and finally disabled the account. I do not like Facebook at all.
I would like to become an official member, if possible, although I do not wish to disclose my name, so putting “Soul Sojourner” should suffice, as it is my pseudonym. Not that it is hard to find information about me, I just don’t feel the need to make it any easier.
I also made an anti-facebook shirt recently, people here might be interested in. It’s a great way of expressing your anti-facebook position.
http://www.zazzle.com/anti_facebook_tshirt-235549262593365705?gl=AmagiSociety&rf=238883077452745719
September 13, 2011 at 5:37 am
Angus Paterson
Facebook has given me nothing but anxiety and depression. The fact that I don’t have to log on and see my peers complaining or all commenting on a girls duck face brings me relief.
September 13, 2011 at 5:44 am
haikton
“People who know little are usually much talkers, while men who know much say little.”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Please add me to the list as well……
Really stupid and dump mess of info at F…book, Twitter etc….
Haikton
September 17, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Jennifer blanton
Facebook is out of control. Will it ever end? Please!
September 29, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Kris Rawson
I would like to join the A.F.L.I., I am a non face book member living in a world without privacy. I wish to join a society where my views and opinions are relevant.
September 29, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Robert Lois
finally, i have found empathy! if i had a dollar for every weird response to “I don’t have a facebook” i would be, let’s say, a few thousand dollars richer? maybe thats too many…
count me in!
September 30, 2011 at 10:03 am
Shawn O
I love this website. I had a friend who had a facebook and deleted it. I always wondered why. Soon I realized why. I myself had facebook for little over a year and soon got sick and tired of it for various stalking that goes on due to having FB. I am disgusted how FB is now the new Database for people to look up other people. Cyberstalking is what FB promotes. It is the new way to judge people without actually ever meeting them. I would love to become a member of the Anti Facebook. It promotes grotesque behavior that many keep hidden inside but they DO come out when one has FB.
Another reason to not like facebook is professionalism, from worklace pages to Universities and Private Colleges.
I am all for becoming a member. Texting is impersonal as it is but FB creates the next step of being anti social.
October 5, 2011 at 7:21 am
Elizabeth D J
I am going to write a book I say! 1001 Reasons Why Not To Have A Facebook! (Im probably not really going to do this so anyone who wishes please feel free, its a great idea). I do not yet know every reason (thats the point though, if anyone thought for two seconds they could pile up more reasons than not themselves)… but they are out there I assure you! If I were to compile a list, it would not end. I am proud to say I am raising an 8yr old boy whom is always up to par with whats popular and as well has plenty of friends but… not only is he not allowed a cell phone or facebook, but he is very content with his life withought it. My final thought… and you can quote me… “The most mature decision in my almost 30 years of existence, was not to aquire a facebook”
October 9, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Valerie
I would like to join the AFLI because I’m tired of nothing being sacred anymore. Facebook has become evil…a place where people think that once you sign on…they have the rights to your life.
October 14, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Dewey
I am glad that this website exists. If not only to inform those who are unaware, but also to intelligently address the growing concern of mankind’s innate dedication to the notion “progress.” But we mustn’t condemn Mr. Zuckerberg’s successful idea that flourishes within the convenient, user-friendly digital world that we all live in -whether directly or indirectly. I find it strikingly ironic that there are Twitter and Facebook log-in buttons below this message box. Why isn’t there a “Like” button at the top? What exactly are we trying to do here? Promote the welfare of human spirituality via the demon itself? Here we are, all in agreeance, but we seem to be addressing a problem that very few people see as a problem. Until the demise of the internet as a whole, Facebook will never go away. All we can do is remain true to what exists within ourselves. Promote intelligent conversation. Keep making art. Let us become a beacon of light before history writes us off as the Dark Age of Information!
October 22, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Kenneth
already joined; I think
October 24, 2011 at 7:56 pm
Alexa Deeb
Hello people of the world without facebooks! I respect and applaud you all for your excellent dicission against that yucky yucky site!
October 28, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Frank A. Mavrich
Frank A. Mavrich – I would like to join the A.F.L.I. because I am an individual with leadership qualities. I am not a follower. If you are on Facebook, you are a shallow stupid excuse for a human being. You are child like and too awkward to speak to people any other way. Facebook members are modern day cowards in a society of very few leaders.
October 31, 2011 at 10:34 am
edward bartholameow barton the fourth
yeah i wanna join. i hate facebook. why might you ask? because face book is the C.I.A. undercover. face book is americas vanity in exponential form. because social networking is a LIE. AND THE MAIN REASON IS IT TURNS MY STOMACH EVERY TIME I HEAR “Join us on facebook” get a life, get some sun. better yet get a job. face book is a big part of whats wrong with america. feeding the void of a heart many dont even know they dont have. I may be wrong about the C.I.A. thing but still, remember that kid who said obama should watch out and the C.I.A. ILLEAGALLY INTERROGATED HIM? is the cental intelligence agency on FB too? weak. just weak. how intelligent is that?
October 31, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Cassie
I have officially deleted my stupid idiotic facebook page. I thought I had deleted it months ago, but low and behold it was still there. after several emails and very angry phone calls, they have finally completely deleted it.
Such an awesome day.
I love the website and would love to join in all the fun!
November 1, 2011 at 12:44 am
vanessa
It was a beautiful thing….committing Facebook suicide. Strangely, I felt a huge sense of freedom NOT “belonging” to a group of relative strangers. (Some of them were my relatives…strangers). I appreciate the anti-facebook website but I do not want to be a member. Just want to say it’s nice to know I’m not the only one….although it would have been kind of cool to be the only one too. Damn, now I’m depressed that I’m not original.
November 5, 2011 at 11:45 am
Virry
I want to be a member of this group which in my estimation is opposed to this self-centered world we live in. I am concerned about the evolution of how we live our lives. It’s all about me me me me, all the way. And we crave all the time for solutions where we need to make the least effort. I know that some have said that the meaning of life is to find out what the meaning actually is, but do not come here to me and say that being online on facebook 24/7 is the meaning of life. Maybe someday, there will be more less self-centered people that have the same thougths as me.
By the way – people who are connected to Facebook and other social networks on their smart phones and take it up and down from their pocket to see if there has been something new every 10 minutes is the most unattractive manner I can think of… I mean – do you really have to do that?!
November 9, 2011 at 6:06 pm
philip nicholson
I would like to submit my request to become a formal member. I have just left facebook. I am just waiting for them to send me my archive which contains my photos and then I will deactivate my account.
My closing wall post explains why I left:
I am leaving Facebook.
I will soon deactivate my account. This message will only remain here until then.
I have begun to see Facebook for what it is. Perverse.
Things I dislike about Facebook:
The futility of friendships held together by Facebook.
Endless chatter about nothing. I accept that I am guilty of this, maybe more than others, but I have realised that a medium that actively facilitates this inane expressionless stream of bullshit is destroying our ability primarily to communicate meaningful ideas and ultimately degrades our ability to censor ourselves.
Please consider the “like” button. Anyone who has read nineteen eighty-four will be familiar with the concept of new-speak and the destruction of words. You must understand what you have lost when you choose to simply press the like button rather than spend time to tell a person what you like about them.
It is already understood that by contributing to anything online you are commodifying yourself to an extent but how much have you really thought about the extent to which you are willing to contribute. How deep are you willing to let undisclosed companies look into your life?
By actively encouraging the dissolution of our inhibitions about what we broadcast we leave ourselves open to attack. This may seem excessive and paranoid but what do you really know about the people that own, and I mean really own every thought, photograph, video etc. you have considered worthy of committing to Facebook, in some cases, for the last 7 years?
I have a tendency to ramble about such things and this short note is by no way an exhaustive list so PLEASE read this article:
http://theantifacebookleague.com/about/
and if you have time this one too:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/20/facebook-fine-holding-data-deleted
also, watch this film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498329/
I am just waiting for Facebook to zip all my pictures and media into a nice little archive file before I deactivate my account.
November 10, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Carey
I read somewhere that Facebook is the online equivalent of looking at yourself in a mirror. I agree. Facebook does have some redeeming qualities, (my husband found his long lost sister on Facebook,) but the potential for harm (bullying, privacy issues,) and the fact that Facebook is a hideous time waster outweighs its benefits in my mind. I always thought I was the only 26 year old woman in the world without a Facebook page. I would love to be a part of your group.
March 6, 2012 at 11:29 am
Anna
dear Carey, I am also a 26 year old woman without a facebook account, you are not alone!!
November 13, 2011 at 9:43 am
Max M.
Facebook users are far away from the real problems in this world. They are staging a drama to get some sort of attention. And the worst thing about it? They let other ppl think for themselves, which makes them to slaves of the system. Without facebook, ppl woul educate Themselves. And you do not find real friends in facebook at all. Im so sick of the dishonesty in this world.
November 18, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Ryan
Can I Join, please?
November 19, 2011 at 3:58 pm
radomsko15
I would like to become an A.F.L.I
Filip Borowiecki
November 20, 2011 at 2:58 am
Sniper
I hate facebook
November 20, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Marco Hrnjez
Hello A.F.L.I!
Facebook…I have never had it and I don’t have any plans on getting it. My reason? Lets just say that I want to save mankind from being consumed by the forces of the evil Facebook Empire, you get my meaning
But really, Facebook IS really time consuming and eats away time that you could otherwise spend to do more… I don’t know, better things like hang out with your friend in real life and do your homeworks and clean your room and god knows
November 25, 2011 at 12:23 am
tyler durden
facebook is destroying the state of humanity. sign me up full member status.
November 26, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Aaron Christopher Arnold
I, Aaron Christopher Arnold, do hereby solemnly proclaim, in the presence of the MOST HIGH GOD and my Brethren and…er…Sisteren, that I, with sound mind and an eye towards all that is just, righteous, and most beneficial, do seek, with utmost diligence and prescience, ALL of the benefits and responsibilities pertaining to, and required by, membership in that most August and respected of institutions – the “Anti Facebook League.” Let the record reflect this most precious of occasions.
November 29, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Ian Dridan
Please do not make this a U.S.A. only organisation. The www makes facebook a wold wide cancer and requires a world wide response to rein in Mr Zuckerbergs faceless, antisocial, money making conglomerate. The old saying “All care, no responsibility.” Sure rings true with Zuckerberg, he takes care of all the money while letting the younger generation decay into a mindless, all self consuming generation of unproductive, uncaring clones that thrive on other peoples dribble. I for one dont really care what someone is having for breakfast or what he/she thinks of someone elses boy/girlfriend. I do care about people being all that they can be in life and am very passionate about bringing to justice those faceless parasites that hide behind a wall and prey on our children or incite bullying and hatred.
When the facebook victims realise there is a world outside facebook with real people and that these people are becoming the majority, not the victims of peer pressure, then facebook will slowly die and the legislation that we currently need to treat this cancer will be required no longer. Keep up the great work. Ian from Australia. (With a dozen friends I can actually have a beer with.)
December 7, 2011 at 6:36 am
Kelly Hoback
I, Kelly M. Hoback, would love to become a full member of A.F.L.I. I am a former Facebook user who once believed this site was all fun and catching up with people. I caught up and decided I did not care that my former classmates from elementary school used the bathroom at two a.m. I also found it very disturbing that relationships are being dictated by Facebook. I pretended to have gotten married as an experiment and even my own mom believed it. I now deleted it after all my experiments and had to change my name to a fake on there as my profile will always disturbingly exist. I wish to be a part of the movement to make people aware of what is really happening with Facebook. Thank you for the opportunity!!!
December 10, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Kelly M. Hoback
I Kelly M. Hoback would love to join the A.F.L.I. as an official member!!!!
December 24, 2011 at 1:28 am
Jeanne
Count me in as an official member. I “defriended” Facebook close to two years ago.
Good for those of you who never signed up in the first place!
Jeanne S.
p.s. I miss Neil Postman.
I was a “fan” of him on FB. How ironic is that? Oh well, I’m sure he would forgive me.
December 26, 2011 at 8:17 am
Ravi
My gf seem spoilt and addicted!! She was innocent
December 26, 2011 at 6:56 pm
CerebralCataclysm
This is what I wrote when they requested a scanning of my I.D,and this is why I want to join all of you in the conquest to liberate the souls of those ruptured by the mental addiction to the cult of facebook…HEre it is,,,enjoy.
Really?You want all of that info about me?When did this become 1942 Nazi Germany?I will not contribute to your site of cyber spying and I will not let you use my info to market my identity to major corporations.It really should not matter if I use my real name or one that is of an alias.This is disgusting,and if you think I am so naive to let you market my profile to the highest bidder,well,YOUR WRONG.I have no need for you site,and I am aware of what kind of scam your pulling on society.This was a brilliant idea.I am aware that you are just an I.T for that Zuckerberg and his contribution to the surveillance of humanity,or those simple enough to contribute to it.
Have a terrible day being the slave you are to the NWO
December 28, 2011 at 4:13 am
E.K.Vogel
You should all be awarded a medal for establishing a league who’s existence serves only to edify the lost souls who have yoked themselves to Facebook, of their enormous folly. Count me in. I wish to be inducted as a member of your noble league. My name is Elijah Vogel, and I rue the day Facebook was conceived.
January 1, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Ran
I’m from the Middle East and Facebook if full of groups of aggressive people who call themselves revolutionists. They threaten to beat or kill anyone they don’t like and post it on Facebook. They boast that they killed soldiers and I keep reporting and the pages stay there. They publish names and pictures of people they intend to teach lessons to and no one stops them. You have no clue what kind of a mess Facebook is doing in the Middle East. But since they don’t write in English I guess they think they are under the radar.
January 3, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Mike D.
I quit FB over a year ago and love the liberated feeling I immediately felt. I have been working since then to spread the word about it’s negative impact on our culture, health, privacy and national security. It is truly the black plague of today. Please accept my request for membership.
January 3, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Adrian
I wish to become a member of this site (auxillary or official). I understand the concept behind social networking but I hold privacy and self preservation in much more high regard. I don’t need to create virtual relationships to remind of who I am and what I stand for.
January 3, 2012 at 10:00 pm
jerome
lost a family member caused by ‘fb”
January 5, 2012 at 12:45 pm
Angela
I’m sorry for your loss, that website seriously needs shut down!!
January 23, 2012 at 7:53 am
Kevin P.
So sorry to hear that. But I bet your not suprized that your not the first one to lose a family member, nor the last to lose one to that evil life degrader(fakebook)
January 5, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Angela
I could go into a million in one reasons why Facebook is terrrible, but I’ll save the space for saying please accept me into the AFLI and Facebook sucks
January 12, 2012 at 5:11 am
Jimmy Johansson
Hello from Sweden, i want to join this. Fb is to close to the soule, its hard to gett a life with it, allways some one that now waths going on. I hate it, My wife works 8-14 h a day, and putt 1-3 h fore fb…. Best love Jimmy
January 14, 2012 at 12:57 am
Chantelle
I am proud to say I have never joined facebook. I think it turns people into narcissistic exhibitionists, am increasingly frustrated with companies and organizations using it as their sole source of “feedback” and abhor the complete disregard for personal privacy. I have lost touch with friends because the only way they choose to keep up to date with their friends is via Facebook, so we non FB people get forgotten. I am so happy to see there are so many fellow human beings more interested in participating in the real world than on FB. I would love to be a member of your league from up here in Canada! But please, can you make it an international league?
January 17, 2012 at 6:26 am
Jennie Heid
Jennie Heid. I think Facebook is a growing cancer on the face of humanity. I would like to be an official member.
January 19, 2012 at 10:08 am
Dawn Kingsbury Attean
I wish to become an official member of AFLI. I have never had a Facebook account and vow that I never will. I was thrilled when I learned that there was an organized group of like-minded citizens. I will be proud to call myself a member of AFLI.
January 22, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Travis Barnes
Please consider my application to the Anti-Facebook League of Intelligentsia. I fully agree with, and wholly commit to abiding by, the constitution of this fine institution. I would be honored to be a full member, and would do my best to uphold our tenets as I participate in my weekly podcast. Thank you for your consideration.
January 23, 2012 at 7:49 am
Kevin P.
I HATE FACEBOOK! Its for a bunch of no life having plastic people! How many of you have people in your life that would put fakebook before they would put having a real life with you? How many relationships has this artificial life sucking useless garbage site wasted? The addict cult of fakebook is lowering the quility of life for humanity!
Are there any woman out there who feel the same way and would like to have a relationship with someone whos gonna hold you in higher regard than a bunch of fake friends who in the end don’t do or care a damn thing for you? If you cant go one day without fakebook then you are an addict and living in a false existance! Break the chains of that life wasting site and focus on your loved ones/family, your time and energy should be devoted to them in the first place. They are the ones who stand by and suffer while you bury your head in fakebook every 5 minutes. You sit there alone thinking your special cause you got all these so-called friends, but just look around the room and you will see that there is really nobody there. Unless its your family waiting for you to comeback and do what you were suppose to do, which is have a life with them! This family destroying site has created alot of zombies and enabled people do harmful things they would of never have been able to do thanks to fakebook! I never used nor ever will use social-bullsites like fakebook! DISLIKE that low-lifes and pry that netphone from your hand, you were not born with it there!
January 26, 2012 at 8:28 pm
William Kane
I wish to become an official member of this wonderful and crusading protest against something that I cannot stand any longer.
January 27, 2012 at 4:08 pm
bert
I hate facebook!
January 29, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Katie MacDonell
Finding this group was a breath of fresh air! I wish to become an official member, as today I am celebrating my first full year away from facebook! yay! I would be honored to take part in this movement. Thank you!
February 1, 2012 at 10:42 am
darcey m. b.
i have never joined facebook, and i never will. i have no interest in giving up real life interactions for those of which some find online. i feel deeply saddened by the change of our society’s relationships from meaningful, and true to false and fake.
February 3, 2012 at 11:56 am
Mayra Diego
I Would love to join The A.F.L.I!!!
February 6, 2012 at 8:40 am
Jalal
Dear,
I wish to be part of your league – as far as FB goes, I just don’t get it.
Cheers
February 6, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Jacalyn Hardy
I would like to join as n official member. I value technology and people, but I have serious concerns about social networking, Facebook, privacy and what is happening us as communicators, as citizens, as consumers and as a society – we are on a slippery slope and sliding fast in the wrong direction!
February 7, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Mike
I’d love to become a member. I’ve been off facebook for 2 years +, and have never looked back. I have talked poorly about it to anyone who’ll listen and have never enjoyed my life more than I did when I deleted it. Thank you for making this site. I’m happy to see other people can see the kind of poison facebook is.
February 12, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Tom
Greetings,
My name is Tom Coughlin and I wish to join the AFLI. I am proud to say that I have never joined the facebook cult in my life. I too am glad this site was made. I see what the cult has done to my friends who have it.
February 15, 2012 at 9:40 am
jenne cala
My kids don’t have facebook because of the information I found on your site.(Never did and now don’t want) ( my explanantions weren’t enough to get it through to them.) But we did it and they are somewhat outcasted , but only from the “fake, mislead and out of touch group”.(unfortunate majority in school) After sometime, they are happy to be antifacebook, love saying you won’t find ME on facebook and are busy LIVING IN REALITY. only wish we could reach more of their generation, it’s going to fester into a very large group of “poor unfortunate souls”……I don’t know if ever joined, but I enjoy this site for it’s information! Please add me I don’t see me on your list. We need stickers, with the website, would love to spread the AFLI message, make it more popular than FB.
Peace to real people. living real lives! WOOT!
March 4, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Tine
Jenne,
I think it is so wonderful that you’ve disallowed your children access to FB. and I can imagine the ridicule they might be going through. I don’t think parents are aware at how susceptible their children are to online predators.
After 3 years of having a profile and one week of rejoining the world I can say that I feel the exact same way as you do when you look at the people who are apart of that cult. It’s sad and unfortunate our children don’t know what the air at the top of a tree smells like or how to use their imaginations.
High Five for living in reality and not the virtual one!!
Cristine
tine_1@me.com
February 16, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Dee
I’d be more than happy to be an AFLI member, Facebook is the worst invention to ever come along in the 21st century (as well as Craigslist, which to me their both running neck and neck).
February 19, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Nikolina
Hi, I am writing to you from Greece. I just deleted my facebook profile, one that I kept for 2 years. I had 11 facebook friends, no photo of myself, no contact info, a fake name and a profile that wouldn’t appear on ANY user search, even if they searched me by email or by my fake nickname ( I dont even know how I managed to achieve that last one, it was a small paragraph hidden in tones and tones of facebook smallprint- someone i knew aked me to do it for them too and i wasn’t able to find out how to do it a second time!!).
The time I used to spend logged in was alltogether maybe 1 hour every 3 months….all spent snooping around. I got sick of being MADE to look into the private lives of others, I got sick of suggestions about who should be my friend, I got sick of hearing teenagers I knew crying their hearts out over facebook posts, I got sick of worrying a friend might write something on my wall like the things we’d say to each other in private, that the whole world could read, I got sick of worrying I’d get tagged in a picture, in a moment that belonged only to me and the people who were there.
PLUS, I didn’t really need to use my profile to prove that I was happy. I believe that deep inside this is what most facebook addicts are really after.
So, I deleted it. Yes, the concepts of meaningful communication and real friendship ARE to be looked into in relation to young facebook users. But let us not forget facebook’s darkest side, making it OK to willingly surrender our privacy.
I hope we become more and more to wake up. I know I don’t feel alone in my ideas now. I’d like to be a part of this team- please have me!
February 20, 2012 at 12:28 am
Notawittyname
I would like to join the AFLI, Facebook is populated with people who grew up in a generation that believes privacy to be importent, yet never think twice about giving full access to their lives to facebook and all its members. And then use facebook as a medium to express outrage against the lack of privacy in the modernization of the internet. My hatred for facebook is ineffable.
February 23, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Noelle Gillies
I have resisted the join Facebook lure for years now. My mom-in-law is on it and can see what a timesucker it is. And now more people ought to be aware of how they sell your information to make money off you. I find this too Orwellian or Brave New World and am puzzled why so many blithely get on social networks and give away their privacy.
February 24, 2012 at 12:02 am
Courtney Shipp
I would love to join this movement. I think it’s awesome what you’re doing and I have started a blog about Facebook usage.
June 11, 2012 at 2:18 am
Coy Kirby
Where will you go from there, because there is countless social ills that tie into this. i let my facebook hating consume my writing. gave it more power, though i denied it. but i expanded and found that addictive tendencies and self depreciation are the root of facebooks hold. maybe with more confidence and respect people wouldnt hold these things dear. maybe if people turned off theyre tv they wouldnt want to be on it. maybe we should stop idolizing these celebrities and making gods of them. i read your blog and i learned alot. i dont blog an im new to this. yours is the only one i could figure out. you have a talent…dig deeper. right on?…write on….
March 4, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Tine
I was a FB member for 3 years. I’d like to rejoin the world again. May I please become a member?
Thank you
Cristine Marchetti
tine_1@me.com
March 6, 2012 at 11:26 am
Anna
Dear Everybody,
I am so much facilitated that there are people like you all!!! I really love to join this movement! I am from Germay and I hope that a movement like yours will start here, too! I never used facebook or any other social media, surprisingly I still have friends
March 12, 2012 at 3:57 am
Mat Garcia
Finally, something worth joining. My name is Mat Garcia of Australia.
Zuckerberg is the modern day pied piper whose sick melody has turned millions of free thinking people into blind rats.
March 13, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Chaz
The concept of facebook is too broad to be regulated by any company, it ought to be ad-free and organized at a local government level as per community.
March 18, 2012 at 6:55 am
Hannibal
Mark Zuckerberg is a modern version of the fairytale character the Piped Piper of Hamelin, leading the lower minds of society out of reality exploiting their dullness and primitive instincts.
I shall be honored to join this movement.
March 18, 2012 at 7:22 am
Hannibal
I would like to be an official member of AFLI.
March 19, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Veronica
I wish to become a member of AFLI. I once had Facebook, and when I left it it was as if a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Gone were “convenient” friendships and letting a website telling me when my friend’s birthday is. Count me in.
On another note, I find it ironic that you can click on the Facebook icon to log into an anti-Facebook page…
March 20, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Moreno
Enter me guys…I was on miserable Facebook for 2 years, and nothing god came out of it…I deactivate it and i dint regret, so i wanna join this…;)
We are born free and we will die free…:)
Facebook makes slaves and we are not their slaves…
Breath fresh air freaks…:D
Down with Facebook…
March 22, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Julia Neetz
i’m from Germany, so excuse me, if i do some language mistakes.
i want to join this movement, because i’m one of the few people, who don’t want to sell their soul to this business-machine and that’s exactly what facebook is. the people behind this social network earn money by selling the members privacy and that’s something i don’t want to support.
i’m also sick of the like-buttons on every damn website. i have to confess, that this is a very refined way to lure new members, but i’m not stupid. i don’t want to sell myself to this exchange sharks.
March 23, 2012 at 9:55 am
Matt A (@MantiFB)
I wish to become a member. BAN FB!!
March 26, 2012 at 2:04 am
Nicole Nagy
I would like to become an official member.
I will declare why:
1) I prefer to clearly and literately write the English language.
2) I prefer to CALL my friends, I would like to write them letters, I would like them to include me in their lives face to face.
3) I prefer to look at the world around me, not my cell phone or laptop.
4) I prefer to be an enigma, rather than to constantly display every piece of my life.
5) I prefer to preserve the human custom of social interaction.
6) I prefer to have privacy.
7) I prefer not to take incessant pictures of myself with a duck-face.
8) I prefer to see daylight outside.
9) I prefer not to pretend like I have a thousand friends.
This website has turned the world to self centered, shallow and lifeless glop. I am tired of being asked to “hit me up on facebook” or why I don’t have a facebook. I want to know there are more out there that loathe this machine and the destruction of social graces. I have never had a facebook and have no intent to have one to this day. What happened to human friendships? I am sick of being out of touch and untouchable because I don’t want constant stimulation and constant feedback..I want to be with the others like me. I am sick of knowing I’m the only college student without a facebook. I choose having a life. I want to join the league!
June 11, 2012 at 2:29 am
Coy Kirby
this is amazing.
April 1, 2012 at 5:17 pm
sara
Even as an online marketer, I am still against Facebook for my own personal use. I was in online marketing before Facebook was around and have been leery of it from the start. It invades my life telling me what I ought to like, who I ought to like and in what I should be interested. As an intellectual, I have always considered this a gross invasion of my privacy and peace of mind, and, thus, as much as I can, keep away from it. Others can use it – fine – but I prefer not to find out the nitty-gritty details of others’ lives via this money-making channel. The more we support it, the more control it will gain.
April 2, 2012 at 5:53 pm
Suzanne
I would like to be an official member please. I’ve written an article about my experience when i finally joined facebook just before christmas half as a social experiment, half because i felt left out. I immediately became addicted so I deleted it after about 4 months before i wasted any more energy and time. Let me know if you want me to send you a copy of my story. Suzanne, Britain.
April 9, 2012 at 1:24 am
MICHAEL NICHOLS
I deleted my Fakebook account a couple of weeks ago. I think what I can’t stand most about it is that it gives people fake courage. They hide behind a computer to say things they would never dream of saying to someone face to face. There is no accountability from anyone, the creators or the consumers. It encourages mob rule. It destroys truth. It is my greatest desire to rid the world of this vile, false, worthless entity. The thing I call Fakebook. I wish to become a member of the AFLI and join the movement to reclaim reality.
April 17, 2012 at 12:53 am
Kevin P.
Superficialbook hurts families and makes people selfcentered. Why do people waste their lives on such nonsense, 90% of things posted is unimportant attentionwhore nonsense.
April 23, 2012 at 8:53 am
M. Schmitt
Nothing more disturbing than watching mankind go blind and hide behind profiles, avatars and nicknames… I just can’t take people seriously that follow a movement only because everybody else is doing it. Just to be part of some kind of an “inner circle” consisting of millions of people that spend their lives on liking stupid things and letting the whole world know how great it is to leave the real world through the screen of some iPhone or whatever. I want reality back. I want to be part of AFLI. I want the people back. Thank you
April 24, 2012 at 9:00 am
Larry
People get addicted to facebook and it’s sad. These people have no idea the harm they are causing themselves and others. I realized the evil of facebook pretty early on. Facebook in my opinion attracts people who are of low information and lonely in some cases and feel a need to express themselves, or prefer connecting with people in what they think is a detached secure manner. This is a very dangerous situation leaving these people at the mercies of the a very few who manipulate this process. Information is “power” and this place (Facebook) is a perfect mining resource to consolidate and abuse the rites of the mass’s, it actually affects everyone. Not just the facebook user’s. What triggered my imagination is when I started thinking about why people can’t really leave facebook and have all the information scrubbed totally clean. I realized there is something more here going on. If I was a very religious person I would call this an “Unholy alliance”. I commend this site and hope it grows as more people realize this”Facebook” is not what it seems. All the very best…!
April 24, 2012 at 9:26 am
Larry
I now have a “Free web site” for my family and friends. I won’t give the name of it here because it would go against the very idea we should believe in. But these places exist. They are great..! they are free and you have total control of all the information. You can post pictures ,you tube videos, Blogs…way better than the evils of facebook. These web sites are totally free if you do some searching. And the best part is “YOU HAVE TOTAL CONTROL”…
May 9, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Gary
I’ve deleted my Facebook account today, I now feel much better!
I can see people fascinated by technology, & how it can help humanity, (and some of it does) but as with anything human, it will have all the bad things that humans can apply to it, Facebook having most of them!!-Deaths have occurred already, & is Facebook worth the life of one human being?–What a tragedy!!!–George Orwell knew this when he wrote 1984, and it’s happening right now!!!!-I wish to become a member. (note to Michael Nichols: Facebook will never go away & unfortunately, will always be a part of reality, there are more stupid sheep than the smart ones!)
May 20, 2012 at 11:57 am
Zach
I have had many problems in my life due to facebook, namely with the spiritual new age groups. I felt that I was trying to reach for a reality that does not truly exist, with no foundation in anything real and tangible. I even made a video about facebook before I found a way to permanently delete my account. If it is alright, I would like to post my video here, which reveals facebook to be nothing more than an artificial reality with no roots in anything real whatsoever.
May 26, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Frank Gregorsky
Greetings — Just discovered this web community and would like to be an auxilliary member. The business media is finally on to Zuckerberg’s arrogance, though it *is* amazing how much investor money just went into his Ponzi scheme. I tried FB for six months during 2010 and withdraw in disorientation and relief. (Linked-In is vastly better, as you only get the one photo…) Thank you for this project, and esp. for keeping the public commentaries family-friendly: Insightful versus Incite-ful.
May 23, 2012 at 2:10 am
Jimmy Johansson
I hate Facebook
May 31, 2012 at 7:01 am
jan erik andresen
Hello ,just deleted my long inactive fb account , seeing how fb is corrupting everything , and now possibly my prefered webbrowser opera, i wish to join you guys.
Greetings from norway
June 4, 2012 at 9:51 am
blondeweezie
I want to become a full fledged MILITANT member,
Fakebook will be the downfall of civilization, with the head idiot , Zuckerberg leading the lemmings down the cliff.
I DON”T want to hear from “friends” who hated me in high school. I’m even less inclined to hear about their hideous offspring and their boring lives.
I will NOT let my privacy be invaded by morons who want to be “friends” but can’t spell “You” .
I will NOT give you my personal information to be sold to the highest bidder.
AND…
If you are a business that gives special discounts to people who “like” you on fakebook, count on a very nasty e mail from me and the assurance that you will not be patronized by me EVER.
Thanks,
Melissa Buchanan
June 11, 2012 at 1:26 am
Coy Kirby
A guy walked up to me and said “i wish words were spelled the way they sound” yesterday. With how the slaughtering of words is already going…i dunno how anyone can turn on a radio and then turn around and say I am spreading ignorance. your rage is well placed. and just. higher levels of standard are a thing of the past. try not to get too mad. in a few generations itll be normal to spell you “U”. Its well known after wars, in two generations, noone will care or remember. there is a word for it i cant recall. but point is. we are a dying breed. and in the future these posts will be worse than forgotten. as people graduate with degrees from google.
June 9, 2012 at 5:03 pm
N. Brunner
Please include me as an active member of the AFLI. With that request I submit the following comment for your review:
Thank you for establishing the AFLI—you have created a venue that lends credibility to our cause, a platform on which to stand, and strength in numbers. As an older individual, I am very relieved to see a number of young people with this enlightened point of view. VERY relieved, for we have simply gotten too greedy with our technology, and the reaper is exacting his price with the utmost cunning and calculation.
That being said, my comment focuses on an entire ‘population’ that Mark Zuckerberg did not consider, or chose to ignore… the ever increasing Victims of Violent Crimes (VVC). I have no doubt that youthful exuberance and naiveté, perhaps even an overconfident and polished ego were at play, but add to that our obsessive “look at me now” culture, and what are we compromising here!?
Most of us will admit to having made stupid mistakes of one sort or another in our youth –lost a few years—hurt people we loved, and caused ripples that ‘skipping stones’ could not imagine, but…whether Mark Zuckerberg could not, or did not, foresee the ramifications; ‘in the second degree’ or not, he has dammed an entire population to a life of fear and isolation. It is inconceivable, (obviously!) the innumerable ways in which facebook has made life exceedingly difficult and fear ridden for SO MANY people. Zuckerberg’s creation of facebook combined with capitalism’s trance has ignited an explosive violation of multiple Constitutional Rights, and none more so than for the Victims of Violent Crimes.
Granted, most of us don’t think about it if we are not “one of them” or, the overindulgent Criminal Minds may have numbed us entirely, but that’s a discussion of another sort. For now…
…activities and day-to-day living are now replaced with fear and apprehension because participation in ANY mundane activity could land VVC a spot on any ol’ somebody’s I want- to-be-a-somebody ego-fueled facebook page. VVC live very restrictive, isolated lives choosing the simplest of activities with caution spending hours, if not days, in tumultuous rumination, self doubt and guilt. This somebody may have gotten their fix, but their ‘star’ now has his/her life torn apart, up-rooted, running in the dark of night to re-locate, re-start and re-id. This is NOT the movies folks, it is REAL and it is REAL LIFE. What Zuckerberg has done and how his ‘billion dollar baby’ feeds on everyone is so sadly indicative of how “…our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
Scarier still, with a most ingenious sleight of hand Zuckerberg has destroyed, no eliminated, CHOICE from our lives; and that destruction has a ripple effect far beyond the ‘boundaries’ of facebook. (facebook has NO boundaries –hereinto the quotation marks) Add to that genius the subtly and charm of a seasoned con artist and the illusion is complete. We don’t even realize what he took, or the priced we paid! Facebook is a capitalist’s wet dream, a lure so enticing it, sadly, captured even the likes of Michael Moore! These innocents are paying Mark Zuckerberg with their lives, their peace of mind and their hopes for a future. He has a place on Wall Street. They have…?
NOTE: I have edited this comment and posted it on open.salon.com to give AFLI more exposure. Please feel free to “send” people there to read, comment and continue…
June 10, 2012 at 6:43 pm
chrisie reed
hi i would like to be a member please , i thought i was odd as i seemed to be the only person that is not on facebook .i would rather watch paint dry this is great to find others that have their own minds and dont need to facebook to survive
June 11, 2012 at 1:16 am
Coy Kirby
My name is Coy kirby, from alaska an 24 years old. I started hating social sites when myspace took its first nasty bite out of humanity when i was in 9th grade.. The amount of disgust and shame i feel for social sites and theyre users is almost un natural. technology and other man crutches is what im at war with. but it all began with myspace and facebook. those two self publicating cess pools opened my eyes. not only do i want to become a member. i would like to become a foot soldier. I attended the funeral of journalism. I lost my mother and aunts to duck faces and trivial obsessions. i have seen friends at night..in the dark.. staring at other friends girlfriends. just because its on a screen doesnt mean its any less real than him holding a photo and sitting in the dark.. which is creepy on anyones scale. these screens have separated us from reality. these posts have got mothers dressing like kids…and kids dressing like mothers. ive been an active, ranting, friend losing, “hysteric” for six years now, an the only reason i havent joined earlier is because i never knew there were other awake people out there. i dont touch internet. i played “real scrabble” with friends. whom all used google to define words they never knew.. that noone knew. gaming isnt safe…journalism is dead. the watering down must be stopped. before were all texting grace before tv dinner. im so glad i found this site. and all of you. alaska is extra quiet when everyone you know is pretending to be famous and somewhere else. ive lost so much in this battle. that if i truely went off this would look like the rantings of sociopath. but be assured. im an articulate artist who has had enough. (the old style artist, ya know, pens an pencils.) please let me become a member. ive been alienated enough already for my views. ( real views, not profile views) whether im accepted or not. i have been an will always be anti facebook. or anyone else that decides to create a sick tumultuous social site that lets people mindlessly post information. i have family that died in wars for privacy acts. now days people just post anything. names, places, friends, family, schedules, allergies, lists of fears. its pathetic. Thankl you for giving me and this sad sad melting pot hope. an ive got hundreds of poems and even some songs on this. been doing it for years..like i said, this arbiter\ambassador has gotten 15 people to renounce theyre pledge to facebook. its slowly coming around..once the next gen hits and we have to face our embarrassment……like our fathers. this little fad will be nothing but acid wash jeans and tye dye…hopefully anyway…Thank you for your time.
god bless the U.S
land of the free base
home of the trendslave.
June 13, 2012 at 6:09 am
N. Brunner
I can’t be the only one with this thought, but i am really serious here folks: What about organizing a mass class action suit against Zuckerberg for violating people’s right to privacy. I have no doubt there would be lots of witnessses to the damage his ‘creation’ has done to their lives. Fighting ‘Big Brother’ would be daunting, but…Savanna what are your thoughts? (Anybody willing to take this on “pro bono!” )
June 14, 2012 at 1:00 pm
BRENT COMBEST
FACEBOOK IS TOO MUCH F-IN DRAMA. WHO CARES WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING AT EVERY MOMENT OF THE DAY? IF I WANT TO KEEP IN CONTACT WITH SOMEONE IN ANOTHER STATE ILL CALL OR EMAIL THEM. DOWN WITH FACEBOOK! WHOEVER STARTED THIS WEBSITE IS AWESOME! I WANT TO BE A MEMBER
June 17, 2012 at 2:09 pm
N. Brunner
Saw a video commerical from Nivea the other day supporting National PDA Day – June 20th– featuring commentary about how we, as people, are sending too much time on electroncial devices to communicate and specifically mentioning facebook! I was begining to feel excited that our message had finally leaked its’ way into the masses, BUT…my cynical nature proved me right again when i saw the sponser—–facebook!!!! Slicky Dick –kind of reminds me of Tricky Dick – you remember him!
Anyway… take a look at the commic section in our AFLI website and you will see a cartoon that expresses this ‘economic tactic’ in all its glory. Just like the cartoon shows – facebook selling adds to use about being “facebook free”. Now you’e got a true to life example right in your face. Why can’t I be wrong about this stuff!? Below is the video so you can see for yourself!
June 17, 2012 at 2:13 pm
N. Brunner
Can’t seem to embed the video although i was able to post it in our “Comments in the World At Large” section. Go there to view the “truth in action!”