SCM: Real vs. Fake Friendship
Friends don’t let friends get Facebook… The following excerpt is from The Dotcomrade: The Many Faces of Online Friendship, an article by Brian Boyd on The New Atlantis: “What does it mean, then, to be...
View ArticleSCM: Moving Up In Life
Well, the thrilling news of the day is that I created official business cards for the AntiFacebook League of Intelligentsia. Moreover, I upgraded the site to a new domain. The primary address of the...
View ArticleSavanna Contra Mundum: You Are Very Bored, You Just Don’t Know It Yet
When I saw this marvelous advertisement on my beloved Dr. Boli’s celebrated magazine, I thought of Facebook. So here is my connection: Facebook breeds sloth and apathy. Facebookers waste time...
View ArticleFacebook Will Be the Death of Us!
The picture above is from a cartoon based off of Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death. It is a faithful rendition of Postman’s thoughts on a subject certainly deserving our attention. The rest...
View ArticleHow We Came To Be Narcissists
Here is most of an article that appeared on the First Things website last month, edited a little for brevity’s sake. Here is a summary for those who cannot afford the time to read it through (or for...
View ArticleAnti-Facebook (and Anti-Twitter) Comics
Check thee out the new Comics section of the site! http://theantifacebookleague.com/comics/ I will be adding more later! Also, enjoy this latest addition to the compilation of Favorite Anti-Facebook...
View ArticleJust Charming.
“A privacy watchdog has uncovered a government memo that encourages federal agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share — and to spy on...
View ArticleStill Not Quite Dead.
The AFLI sincerely apologizes for the inhuman quiet on this site the last few months and for the delay as to comment-posting and the addition of new members. I do believe I have added all those who...
View ArticleCheck Out this Nifty Map of the (Online) Universe
“Northern Wasteland of Unread Updates,” “Bay of Drama,” and “Plains of Awkwardly Public Family Interactions…” I am quite pleased with this map I found online; it is a creative interpretation of the web...
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