"We noticed that teenagers, our core demographic, were flocking away from Facebook," said DoSomething's Colleen Wormsley.
Teens are flocking away from Facebook because it only has one thing to offer, and that thing isn't all that interesting once your parents start using it, which is why Facebook bought Instagram and wishes it could buy SnapChat for four billion dollars, even though SnapChat is to human life what Grape Twizzlers are to your colon.
Decade after decade, smart and educated people flock away from Merced, Calif., Yuma, Ariz., Flint, Mich., and Vineland, N.J.
One bizarre suggestion was that shepherds be issued with GPS devices to ensure they kept flocks away from planned new highways.
Through the various stages that followed, I was transported by a wind as cunning as that which separates the adventurous bird from his flock, away from the Arabic language and into a new territory of sound and syntax, of words that at first crackled and broke in my mouth but are now what I use in my most intimate and public life, in my bedroom and the lecture hall and, most crucially, in my study.
But while many people flock away from the cold to warmer destination in the winter, I like to flock to the snow since I never get to have a Winter Wonderland or a White Christmas.
A manoeuvre possibly underlying a density wave, namely speeding up forwards in the flock away from the predator (Procaccini et al. 2011), and a manoeuvre that may underlie an orientation wave, namely rolling sideward and back like in a zigzag (Rudebeck 1951).
A llama will herd the flock away from danger and stand guard when a herd member is giving birth or is ill or injured.
The individual starlings do not spread, but rather move as an intelligent flock, feinting away from diving birds of prey.
As we trolled toward the craggy rocks off South Brother Island, the sun-basking cormorants took umbrage and then took flight, forming a big wing-beating flock wheeling away from their leafy refuge here in the middle of the upper East River.
