Angry Facebook Backlash Impossible Without Nifty New Facebook Features
Only 24 hours after Facebook launched its "news feed" and "mini-feed" features, students have already organized a mass protest against the site's Orwellian reincarnation. How'd they do it? Uhh, through Facebook, obvi.
It's amazing. There's "People who hate the facebook facelift" (16,794 members), "Students against Facebook News Feed (Official Petition to Facebook)" (89,284 members), and "Facebook looks shit now" (1,679 members). You can also sign the online petition here, or suck it up and sever your social spinal cord on Facebook Boycott Day. Of course, no one would have ever HEARD of these brave efforts were it not for the new features that make us all stalkers -- and stalkees -- whether we like it or not. (Overeager friendsters are paying the price: Now the whole campus knows when you quietly remove Footloose from your list of favorite movies.)
Congratulations, Facebook. You've given us the greatest organizational tool since the truncated yak horn. Too bad its first use had to be protesting you.
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September 6th, 2006 at 10:14 am
Nice post, I’m going to put it up on my Facebook Notes page.
September 6th, 2006 at 10:31 am
that facebook logo dude just took on creepy new significance.
September 6th, 2006 at 10:39 am
i still stand by my love for Snakes on a Plane, both pre- and post-movie opening
September 6th, 2006 at 10:57 am
Facebook is creating a never ending cycle of stalking by which the people who are stalking you can watch you stalk other people. I, for one, am disgusted. Guess we should chalk one up for good old Friendster.
September 6th, 2006 at 11:13 am
All this thanks to Mark Zuckerberg Harvard ‘06. Is he the smartest/richest/creepiest 23-year-old ever? Maybe?
September 6th, 2006 at 11:36 am
he is a harvard dropout, and not the first one to be a disgrace.
September 6th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
it actually wasn’t zuckerberg, he sold facebook to rupert murdock for 50 million, so it was big bad rupert that brought about these beautiful changes.
September 6th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Rupert Murdoch annoys me.
September 6th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
ugh, no. murdoch bought myspace, assface.
September 6th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Here is a live counter of the number of people who have joined the “Students against Facebook News Feed” group on Facebook….. 300,000 and climbing
http://digg.com/tech_news/Facebook_Stalker_City_Includes_LIVE_Counter