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14-Year-Old Boy Leads 1.4M Strong Facebook Insurgency Group

by Amar Toor on November 2, 2009 at 03:05 PM

Facebook's tyrannical, inexplicable decision to redesign the site yet again has infuriated more than a million users, and sparked a latent revolutionary fervor and profound anger the likes of which we haven't seen in, like, months. This burgeoning uprising, however, has so far lacked that one leader. That's about to change, though, with the messianic arrival of a new Chosen One. The revolution has finally found its iconic face. And it's a 14-year-old boy.

Jonathan Woodlief, an 8th grader from North Carolina, has taken the helms of the anti new-Facebook movement after assuming the title of administrator for a major insurgency group. The Charlotte Observer reports that Woodlief joined the group called "CHANGE FACEBOOK BACK TO NORMAL!" and after the original creator quit his administrative duties, Woodlief picked up the mutiny ball and ran with it. The teenager wasted no time in setting high goals for his freedom fighters, imploring them to "try and get 10,000,000 people to join!"

Since then, Woodlief has received countless messages and friend requests, and group membership has similarly mushroomed. All this came as a surprise to his parents, who were totally unaware of their son's newfound celebrity. When contacted for comment by the Observer, Woodlief's befuddled father replied, "He's doing what on Facebook?"

Zuckerberg, take notice. The masses, freshly invigorated by a 14-year-old demagogue, are mad as hell. And they're not gonna take it anymore. [From: Newsobserver.com via Columbia Journalism Review]

Tags: facebook, facebook groups, facebook redesign, FacebookGroups, FacebookRedesign, redesign, top

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