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A "Not on Facebook" font icon for your website
- Toenex 13y agoHere is how you deal with not being on facebook [http://i.imgur.com/BOvxQ1F.png http://i.imgur.com/BOvxQ1F.png] Same thing applies to every other service that you don't use.
- kirab 13y agoIf 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/ http://css-tricks.com/examples/IconFont/
- mattl 13y agoI don't really see how this is better than <img src=".." alt="You won't find me on Facebook" />
- freshyill 13y agoIt'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-font-to-svg http://ianfeather.co.uk/ten-reasons-we-switched-from-an-icon...
- marcosdumay 13y agoDoes IE support SVG already?
- icebraining 13y agoIE9 and up do: http://caniuse.com/svg http://caniuse.com/svg
- freshyill 13y agoI've had a lot of success using SVGeezy for image replacement and Modernizr to help with background images. http://benhowdle.im/svgeezy/ http://benhowdle.im/svgeezy/
- smackfu 13y agoI 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?
- dlsx 13y agoBecause we want YOU to FEEL BAD for using such SHIT.
- nayefc 13y agoJust HN passive aggressive behaviour.
- cliveowen 13y agoActually 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.
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoIt's a classic form of slacktivist protest.
- lmm 13y agoIt 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.
- chrismorgan 13y agoOn my website I just used a regular Facebook icon and marked it "not applicable": http://chrismorgan.info/ http://chrismorgan.info/
- smackfu 13y agoFYI, I assumed your lowercase "g" icon was for Google. Would not have guessed Github.
- chrismorgan 13y agoYeah, I'm was never especially happy with it, despite its shape being the GitHub g rather than the Google g; I'd prefer the octocat which can't be confused by any means. But (silly me) I hadn't even asked for that to change (the icon font in use is Rondo: http://www.tajfa.com/projects/rondo/ http://www.tajfa.com/projects/rondo/). I have now done so.
- smackfu 13y agoAh, didn't realize this was a third party thing. Yeah, it seems like the Octocat Mark is the recommended option now: "Use the Mark in social buttons to link to your GitHub profile or project" https://github.com/logos https://github.com/logos
- tlrobinson 13y agoThat's the GitHub font.
- blister 13y agoHey, you have the exact same email address convention that I have. Weird. I'm "me@fullname.info". I don't see too many people using this convention.
- Mayeu 13y agoNice idea!
- mattl 13y agoHere are some I made a few years ago -- http://www.fsf.org/facebook http://www.fsf.org/facebook -- not as font icons, but as regular images.
- untog 13y agoThe 21st Century equivalent of telling everyone you meet that you don't own a TV.
- frogpelt 13y agoIn which century was it cool to not own a TV?
- taoufix 13y agoActually it's more like: I own a TV but I don't watch <insert popular show here>.
- rmc 13y agoI watched it before it was cool
- shitgoose 13y agoStill better then telling everyone that you do own a TV.
- untog 13y agoNot really. If I told you that I owned a TV and you did too, we could talk about the things we watched on TV. If I told you I don't own a TV there's literally nothing else to talk about on the topic.
- sergiotapia 13y agoCool! Let everyone know you're a tool in less than 5 seconds!
- colinbartlett 13y agoI don't really see how someone openly expressing their displeasure with a popular product makes them a "tool".
- bifftannen 13y agoTools are useful, unlike facebook.
- invalidOrTaken 13y ago"Open" would be a blog post. This is passive-aggressive.
- tool 13y agoSo 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.
- DZittersteyn 13y agoYou could also use Font Awesome for something similar: http://jsfiddle.net/sv8Lm/ http://jsfiddle.net/sv8Lm/
- Mayeu 13y agoIndeed. 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 13y agoWhat, no "I'm not on LiveJournal/MySpace/Friendster/your local BBS" icons?
- danielweber 13y agoFind me on The Well.
- jokoon 13y agoBetter to just add facebook to your hosts file
- nsxwolf 13y agoWhat's it for?
- eruditely 13y agoMight as well get an edgy bumper sticker to really let everyone avoid you!
- illumen 13y agoFacebook is the new myspace. People are leaving it in droves.
- abjorn 13y agoOr - and hear me out here - you could just not put the Facebook logo on your site. Revolutionary idea, I know.
- frogpelt 13y agoThis 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 13y agoThe 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-profiles-leak-in-bug-7000017167/ http://www.zdnet.com/anger-mounts-after-facebooks-shadow-pro...
- krrishd 13y ago"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.
- na85 13y agoReminds 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