Cyber-Skepticism: A New Luddite Movement?

I came across the term "cyber-skeptic" today, and a flash-bulb went off in my head.  "This is the best term I have found yet for what I am," I thought to myself.  Could this be the new version of a Luddite movement?  Well, probably not, because Luddites were against technology itself, even ones that did in fact make life a lot easier, more efficient and safer.  Or did they?  Shit, I don't know.  One could easily point out that there are a myriad inventions, mostly in the form of small electrical devices, that really have only had a negative impact on the world.  Further, one could argue about the real world need for the development of machines to make goods in general.  I mean, why did we invent machines to do the work of the people in the first place?  Something tells me it was more about the expediency of profit than quality.  After all, anything that is "hand made" is better, even in today's world.

According to Wikipedia, "The principal objection of the Luddites was to the introduction of new wide-framed automated looms that could be operated by cheap, relatively unskilled labour, resulting in the loss of jobs for many skilled textile workers." 

One could look back and say that the Luddites were industrialization skeptics.  Like the Luddites, people like me are not very friendly to the concept of people becoming what MIT professor Sherry Turkle calls "less human," in her book Alone Together.  That is a book I will certainly be cracking open during my time away from the social network.  The UK Telegraph article about her new book displays another very disturbing aspect of the social network, and Facebook in particular.  A woman named Simone Back, of Brighton in the UK, posted a suicide note on her Facebook page shortly before she commenced with killing herself.  The note was seen by more than 1000 people, and instead of pleas for her not to do it, wishing her adieu, or calling for help, her friends commenced with "trading insults with each other on her Facebook wall."  

My cyber-skepticism causes me to think that this kind of unthinking, brash, dissociative communication on Facebook - something we have all seen before - is a sign of times to come.  Unless of course a new cyber-Luddite movement develops.  Update your Facebook with that one people.