I don't know if I'm technically a luddite (in the modern sense, not the automatic loom sense), but I hate the idea of being always connected to the electronic world. I don't carry a cell phone, I don't belong to facebook, I don't have a laptop for the airport. I think my reason for avoiding facebook is perfectly rational: I don't want to. And people writing article about how unreasonable I am is not going to encourage me to change that stance.