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New Apps Enable Social Network Snubbing
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on Sat Oct 13, 2007 05:31 AM
from the true-spirit-of-the-internet dept.
from the true-spirit-of-the-internet dept.
beafpeat writes "Both The Boston Globe and NPR are reporting on new apps such as Enemybook and Snubster that parody the social networking phenomenon. 'Tired of bogus online friendships... [the creators] hope to encourage people to undermine, or at least mock, the online social communities sites such as Facebook were designed to create.'" Relatedly News.com wonders, with the opening of the Facebook API and the ensuing app frenzy, how much is too much of a good thing?
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Bad Idea (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://plexipages.com/reflections | Last Journal: Thursday February 02 2006, @11:14AM)
Re:Bad Idea (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Bad Idea (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Bad Idea (Score:5, Interesting)
Problem is the way it's used (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't add people that you aren't/weren't actually friends with, and ignore requests from people who are just trying to increase their friends count and e-penis size. These websites are as useful as you make them.
Re:Problem is the way it's used (Score:5, Funny)
I had like zero friends.
Now with Facebook, I have 1723 "friends"!
Of course I'm still a pathetic loser living in my Mom's basement, but I bet have more "friends" than you!
So, it's all good, eh?
Re:Problem is the way it's used (Score:4, Funny)
Considering I have 0 friends in real life and I live with my parents (all because of a bitter divorce - yes, friends and living with parents), FB and MS give me false hope that there are people who may actually wish to communicate with me. Yes that is sad, but it's the truth. I believe to some extent, this is the reason why these sites are so popular. It's got nothing to do with the fancy applets, not even the interface. It's the sheer fact that people can communicate with others they wouldn't usually.
I'm off to bed to sleep... alone.
Wait, gotta check my FB first... (for the non-existent glimmer of hope that someone of the opposite sex may talk to me).
How Pathetic (Score:2)
(http://inglorion.net/ | Last Journal: Thursday October 06 2005, @07:17AM)
I don't have a high opinion of the facebooks and myspaces of the world, and i'll admit to occasional episodes of resentment (usually when there is superior technology or skills, but the guy who shouts loudest gets the cake), but I would stop short of actually undermining, disrupting, and destroying their products.
I'd write a very different app (Score:2)
The only thing that's worse to a data miner than giving him no data is to poison the data he has.
Re:I'd write a very different app (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.geocities...atepower_gangsta.htm)
Just to spit in the soup of various data miners.
Wow, way to stick it to the man, dude!
Facebook (Score:4, Interesting)
Another feature stolen from Slashdot (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://theravensnest.org/ | Last Journal: Sunday October 07, @07:05AM)
The title is wrong (Score:3, Funny)
If you don't like Facebook or Myspace, etc, don't use them. Its that simple.
Prior art (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://www.dangercollie.com/music/)
[the creators] hope to encourage people to undermine, or at least mock, the online social communities...
Before Snubster there was /.
Don't forget my personal favorite... (Score:5, Funny)
They should change the name to "Death Note" (Score:1)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:tlevine)
For a good laugh... (Score:2)
Apps suck (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Thursday February 15 2007, @08:40PM)
Progress all around us ... (Score:1)
(http://foobsr.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday March 26 2005, @05:24PM)
How creative. At least, one can infer that he is able to relate 'freak' (or 'foe') to 'enemy'. A true candidate to successfully 'do a hardware application' by 2050 [slashdot.org].
CC.
LinkedIn needs something like this (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.animats.com)
LinkedIn is supposed to be about linking up people you already know. But it has spammers, called "open networkers", who will link to anybody. They're just trolling for big link counts. Some way to give those guys negative points when they spam would be useful. Right now, there's no penalty for asking.