“Tired of phony online friends? Make enemies instead. Riding on the popularity of social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, new Web sites are poking fun at online friendships that connect you to the people you like, by turning attention to the ones you don’t.
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.
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December 29, 2007 at 5:22 am
I plead Newton’s law of motion; for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
I think these anti-social networking sites are missing the point; social networking is voluntary.
No one ever pointed a gun to anyone’s head and asked to add them to Facebook.
It’s all part of the deal. If you want in, you have to deal with posers and fake-friends. If you don’t, then don’t join a social network!
End of problem. =)
December 29, 2007 at 7:05 pm
The problem with Facebook and other social networking sites is not the sites themselves but the people using them. Like anything, people just get too addicted to them.
We’re building a social networking site, and while we have some cool things for people to do on our site, we don’t want people to log in every day like a drug.