Could it really be that I anticipated a trend?  In my July 26, 2011 post “Unreal“, I wrote:

I choose not to post comments on my Facebook page anymore.  It is a reflection of our time that I even need to explain this.  About the same as if I had said, 30 years ago, that I don’t watch TV.  Or, 50 years ago, that I like to play with dolls.  Facebook is the new conformity.

And now, The New York Times published this article about so-called “rebels” who choose not to participate in Facebook.  One excerpt:

Will Brennan, a 26-year-old Brooklyn resident, said [his] friends are not always sympathetic to his anti-social-media stance.  “I get asked to sign up at least twice a month,” said Mr. Brennan. “I get harangued for ruining their plans by not being on Facebook.”  And whether there is haranguing involved or not, the rebels say their no-Facebook status tends to be a hot topic of conversation — much as a decision not to own a television might have been in an earlier media era.

Someone out there is channelling my blog.  I say, channelling, because so few of you are actually reading it.  Too busy on Facebook, perhaps.