[1]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/nobody-hates-softwa...
It's quite possible that smart phones, televisions, and kindles don't make your life any better. But MRI machines, efficient vehicles, green energy, plastic money, RFID toll booths, the GPS satellite constellation, and the internet probably do. Being anti technology means that you resist things that would improve your life for no other reason than that they are new. It's fine to use old things, as long as you keep an open mind.
Language is technology, clothing is technology, vegetables are technology, houses are technology.
The author is talking about people usurping modernity, not stretching the definition of technology to the point of absurdity.
Modernity is not Facebook. Facebook is pop culture, and we're already aware of the anti-pop-culture movement: they're called hipsters.
That argument can be made, but not convincingly. Instead, why not define "technology" as something man-made that most people find incomprehensible?
People dislike facebook for many reasons, and I can't say I've ever noticed an anti-tech vibe to them. Mostly it seems to be disgust with FB actions (privacy etc), with the shallowness of interactions there, or simply with the amount of time and mental energy it takes to "be involved" in FB.
My girlfriend is adamant about keeping her old crusty flip phone with a broken hinge that doesn't have a real keyboard on it, or even the internet!
The majority of my friends almost refuse to own televisions.
I own a kindle, but almost never use it in favor of paper.
I also own several prosumer digital SLRs, but favor my old vivitar 35mm camera from high school.
etc. etc. The list goes on.
(For reference, my girlfriend and I are both programmers)
Look even here on HN, how many people are actually anti facebook, or how common "I'm staying off the internet for 6 months!" posts are.
The anti-tech counterculture is already here.