A "Not on Facebook" font icon for your website

[untog]

The 21st Century equivalent of telling everyone you meet that you don't own a TV.

[shitgoose]

Still better then telling everyone that you do own a TV.

[taoufix]

Actually it's more like: I own a TV but I don't watch <insert popular show here>.

[frogpelt]

In which century was it cool to not own a TV?

[smackfu]

I find this whole concept weird. If you are using icons to represent what services you are on as links to contact you, why do you need one for a service you aren't on? And if you are trying to make a point of not being on Facebook, wouldn't a nice big colorful icon make more sense?

[cliveowen]

Actually it might be useful seeing how every webpage with the Like button you see is tracked by Facebook. The logo is just an assurance that FB won't know you visited the site.

What most people don't understand is that somewhere in Facebook's data centers there's a DB with entries like:

Paul Averageman (Facebook UID=3427342)

13:48 cnn.com

13:52 nytimes.com

13:59 youtube.com

ecc.

[lmm]

It makes it clear to users that they're not just failing to find your facebook contact link, there's not one there for them to find.

[nayefc]

Just HN passive aggressive behaviour.

[vezzy-fnord]

It's a classic form of slacktivist protest.

[mattl]

Here are some I made a few years ago -- http://www.fsf.org/facebook -- not as font icons, but as regular images.

[kirab]

If someone else asks himself why you’d want a font icon instead of an image, I found an explanatory page: http://css-tricks.com/examples/IconFont/

[freshyill]

It's still a hack. It's time to go with SVG instead.

Here's a good writeup of reasons to stop using silly icon fonts and start using SVG.

http://ianfeather.co.uk/ten-reasons-we-switched-from-an-icon...

[mattl]

I don't really see how this is better than <img src=".." alt="You won't find me on Facebook" />

[krrishd]

"Whoa, I'm such a rebel because I don't use Facebook."

Disapproval of Facebook for whatever reason is fair, but just putting a logo up without any explanation as to what you hate about it is just annoying. Write a blog post. Don't tell us what you don't use, its just pointless information that's more confusing than helpful.

[sergiotapia]

Cool! Let everyone know you're a tool in less than 5 seconds!

[tool]

So using a website for showing off and glorifying your every day life doesn't make you a tool? Don't even try to fly that 'socializing' bullshit, I can see your sushi eating pictures even with my eyes closed. Combine the nature of facebook with the real privacy concerns and I really can't understand why anyone, let alone technie, would use facebook.

I guess people just have different values and that's what I feel that this is about, showing off your values. Kind of like a bumper sticker, patch or a pin.

[colinbartlett]

I don't really see how someone openly expressing their displeasure with a popular product makes them a "tool".

[chrismorgan]

On my website I just used a regular Facebook icon and marked it "not applicable": http://chrismorgan.info/

[smackfu]

FYI, I assumed your lowercase "g" icon was for Google. Would not have guessed Github.

[blister]

Hey, you have the exact same email address convention that I have. Weird. I'm "[e-mail]". I don't see too many people using this convention.

[Mayeu]

Nice idea!

[na85]

Reminds me of the "AOL sucks" or "Thank you for not using AOL" animated gif buttons that people plastered all over our geocities sites back in 1994

[illumen]

Facebook is the new myspace. People are leaving it in droves.

[DZittersteyn]

You could also use Font Awesome for something similar: http://jsfiddle.net/sv8Lm/

[Mayeu]

Indeed. This was my first approach, but I did not get something nice. It seems my html/css-fu is even lower than what I thought!

[RankingMember]

What, no "I'm not on LiveJournal/MySpace/Friendster/your local BBS" icons?

[danielweber]

Find me on The Well.

[Toenex]

Here is how you deal with not being on facebook [http://i.imgur.com/BOvxQ1F.png] Same thing applies to every other service that you don't use.

[abjorn]

Or - and hear me out here - you could just not put the Facebook logo on your site. Revolutionary idea, I know.

[frogpelt]

This doesn't make sense to me.

The people who care the most about not being tracked or having their privacy invaded probably do not have facebook accounts or do not stay logged into their account. Thus, it won't affect them. The people who still use facebook obviously don't have a problem with it.

What's the point?

[icebraining]

The people who care the most about not being tracked or having their privacy invaded probably do not have facebook accounts or do not stay logged into their account. Thus, it won't affect them.

That's a little naive. http://www.zdnet.com/anger-mounts-after-facebooks-shadow-pro...

[eruditely]

Might as well get an edgy bumper sticker to really let everyone avoid you!

[nsxwolf]

What's it for?

[jokoon]

Better to just add facebook to your hosts file