Quitting Facebook Is The New 'I Quit TV' (You Hipster, You) - 0 views
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Mathieu Plourde on 08 Jan 13"Ditching Facebook has become a new, elitist form of "conspicuous non-consumption," on par with refusing television, argues New York University assistant professor Laura Portwood-Stacer in a recent article published in the Journal of New Media and Society. Once upon a time, being on Facebook meant you were hip. Now, not having a Facebook account is the status symbol -- at least to some."