Enemies List
Tired of fake Facebook friends? Are you anti-social toward social networks? Think MySpace should be just that without anyone bugging you? Then places like Snubster, Enemybook and Hatebook are where you want to be!
Over the past 18 months, sites such Snubster, Enemybook and Hatebook are appealing to Internet users who get a kick out of the tongue-in-cheek humor of mocking their friends and others who are just plain cynical.
"I didn't understand these fake-friend war chests that people were so busy building online," said Bryant Choung, a technology consultant who started Snubster last year.
"I would get Facebook requests from people I talked to for three minutes at a bar or party, and now this person wants to go online to peruse all of my photos and contacts. I just didn't get it," the 26-year-old added.
Snubster, a Facebook application and a Web site with 16,000 users worldwide, lets users compile people and things they dislike.
No one from Facebook, which boasts 59 million active users worldwide, was available to comment about the sites.
When Facebook opened up its network to outside applications earlier this year, some users decided it was an opportunity to poke fun at the phenomenon.
Social networking for the anti-social! Absolutely perfect. A professor of (I'm not kidding here) pop culture sociology at Ryerson University in Toronto, Murray Pomerance, is warning that these anti-social (and their social counterparts) can actually be dangerous for some people who take them too seriously. (Which has been shown to be tragically true just recently.) So parents should be monitoring what their kids are doing on these sites, social or anti-social. The adults are on their own.
Geek Stuff, News | Gaius Friday, 21 December , 2007
By NortonPete, Friday, 21 December , 2007 @ 6:41 pm
Oh this would fit me fine if I wasn’t so anti-establishment.
Very funny, thanks for the tip, but I wouldn’t want to be a
member of any group who would have me.
Borrowed from Woody Allen, but without any affliation for his beliefs.
By Gaius, Friday, 21 December , 2007 @ 6:47 pm
I think Allen stole that from Groucho Marx.