A "Not on Facebook" font icon for your website

https://github.com/Mayeu/not-on-facebook-icon

by Mayeu • 13 years ago

38 56 13 years ago

kirab• 13 years ago

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/

mattl3• 13 years ago

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

err4nt• 13 years ago

Have you ever tried adding images for use as icons that look good on retina or HiDPI displays? I use icons for their perfect resolution at every size, no matter your pixel density :)

freshyill2• 13 years ago

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...

marcosdumay• 13 years ago

Does IE support SVG already?

smackfu3• 13 years ago

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?

nayefc• 13 years ago

Just HN passive aggressive behaviour.

cliveowen• 13 years ago

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.

vezzy-fnord• 13 years ago

It's a classic form of slacktivist protest.

lmm• 13 years ago

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.

chrismorgan2• 13 years ago

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

smackfu3• 13 years ago

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

chrismorgan2• 13 years ago

Yeah, 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/). I have now done so.

tlrobinson• 13 years ago

That's the GitHub font.

blister• 13 years ago

Hey, 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.

Mayeu2• 13 years ago

Nice idea!

mattl3• 13 years ago

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

untog3• 13 years ago

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

taoufix• 13 years ago

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

rmc• 13 years ago

I watched it before it was cool

shitgoose• 13 years ago

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

untog3• 13 years ago

Not 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.

mercer• 13 years ago

That reminds me of one of my favorite Onion articles: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...

frogpelt2• 13 years ago

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

sergiotapia• 13 years ago

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

colinbartlett• 13 years ago

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

bifftannen• 13 years ago

Tools are useful, unlike facebook.

invalidOrTaken• 13 years ago

"Open" would be a blog post. This is passive-aggressive.

tool• 13 years ago

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.

DZittersteyn• 13 years ago

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

Mayeu2• 13 years ago

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• 13 years ago

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

danielweber• 13 years ago

Find me on The Well.

jokoon• 13 years ago

Better to just add facebook to your hosts file

nsxwolf• 13 years ago

What's it for?

eruditely• 13 years ago

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

illumen• 13 years ago

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

Toenex• 13 years ago

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.

abjorn3• 13 years ago

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

frogpelt2• 13 years ago

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?

icebraining2• 13 years ago

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...

krrishd• 13 years 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• 13 years ago

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

A "Not on Facebook" font icon for your website

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