the kicker

“He’s doing what on Facebook?”

October 29, 2009

Meet Jonathan Woodlief, the fellow who is: coordinating nearly a million and a half online protesters; leading one of the Web’s fastest-growing viral movements, a revolt against recent changes made to Facebook’s News Need feature; administering the CHANGE FACEBOOK BACK TO NORMAL!! group on the social networking site, adding new members at the rate of roughly 100 people a minute; and, in his spare time, attending the eighth grade.

“His parents were not aware of this,” Charlotte’s News & Observer reports in a delightful mini-profile of Jonathan, 14.

Oh, kids.

Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.