Recently, there has been a growing interest in the "Anti-Facebook Movement". The best known example is diaspora.com, the Anti-Facebook social net. Now we hear on another site, no-fad.com, an Anti-Facebook dating site for people who ban Facebook or just doesn't like it. The site is full of slogans like: "Hate Facebook - with passion", "Looking for relationship, not relationship status", "Love people - hate Facebook", etc. The site is free for anyone except Mark Zuckerberg, who should pay 500,000,000$ for joining. "One dollar for every soul he corrupted", says the site's owner, John Purian. I interviewed him last Sunday.
-Who needs an Anti-Facebook dating site? What is wrong with dating sites like PlentyOfFish.com?
-There are fish who like to swim against the stream. Facebook is the cancer of the 21th century. It's spreading everywhere and pollutes our human environment, damaging the most important thing in our life: our social, romantic, and family connections. It promotes values like voyeurism, hypocrisy and boisterousness. It's the most serious treat on our freedom - not Al-Qaeda.
-OK, I got it. You hate Facebook.
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-There are many people who don't want to be part of this game. And now they have an alternative. They can find people like themselves, who believe in real friends and real relationships, and actually know their friends.
-Wow, actually know their friends?
-You're laughing, but the weird thing is that this concept became subversive.
-Isn't it really a site for social outcasts?
-These you can find everywhere in Facebook. Many of our users are "people persons", who just can't stand the shallowness and artificiality of the Facebook society. Until today they were facing a cruel choice: join or vanish. We address the silent majority, people who spend their time with their real friends and family, who believe in person to person communication, and their private life is private.
-By the way, do you have a Facebook profile?
-No, but my dog has.
Later I talked with Sharon, one of the site's users. "I wanted a relationship like in the old times, before it became a show for two players in front of their friends", Sharon says. "Now I know that i'm not alone, and there are many people like me. Thanks to no-fad.com they are not alone, too".
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-Who needs an Anti-Facebook dating site? What is wrong with dating sites like PlentyOfFish.com?
-There are fish who like to swim against the stream. Facebook is the cancer of the 21th century. It's spreading everywhere and pollutes our human environment, damaging the most important thing in our life: our social, romantic, and family connections. It promotes values like voyeurism, hypocrisy and boisterousness. It's the most serious treat on our freedom - not Al-Qaeda.
-OK, I got it. You hate Facebook.
NO-FAD Banner
-Wow, actually know their friends?
-You're laughing, but the weird thing is that this concept became subversive.
-Isn't it really a site for social outcasts?
-These you can find everywhere in Facebook. Many of our users are "people persons", who just can't stand the shallowness and artificiality of the Facebook society. Until today they were facing a cruel choice: join or vanish. We address the silent majority, people who spend their time with their real friends and family, who believe in person to person communication, and their private life is private.
-By the way, do you have a Facebook profile?
-No, but my dog has.
Later I talked with Sharon, one of the site's users. "I wanted a relationship like in the old times, before it became a show for two players in front of their friends", Sharon says. "Now I know that i'm not alone, and there are many people like me. Thanks to no-fad.com they are not alone, too".
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