Jessica Fishbein, a 37 year-old Miami high school English teacher, is main a protest against Facebook, but not for the reasons you might think (like, too many students superpoking each other on iPhones, in the middle of a very serious discussion on the oxford comma). She hates the new layout, and is encouraging citizens to boycott the social networking site next weekend.

As a leader of the Facebook group “1,000,000 against the new Facebook layout”, she’s been chatting with media folks lately to spread her valiant letter, including The LA Times’ Technology blog, today:

“The members of our group want action,” she said. “They want to take a stand to compose a statement to show that we are still on Facebook, we are not leaving necessarily, but Facebook really

needs to listen to our feedback and assemble some adjustments.”

As for the directions for the protest:

By 11:59 PM (in your region) on 17 October — be certain to log off. Do not log back in no matter how tempting until 12:00 AM (in your region) 20 October.

On 20 October we all log back in and see whether there has been a response of any kind. A blog, a post…. anything. whether not, we repeat the process…

Fishbien could use her flair for protest for more urgent causes, but personally after a week’s worth blogging, I’m all for ignoring Facebook for a weekend, whether it’s for a “cause” or not.

–Kyle Munzenrieder

Original post by Kyle Munzenrieder