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New Apps Enable Social Network Snubbing
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?
I have never seen what could turn out to be a better lawsuit incubator.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
There really is no problem with the way Facebook is setup (apps are, overwhelmingly, useless and stupid but maybe there are some useful ones, I don't know). The problem is how people use the system. But you don't have to use it like that. Just a few days ago someone from my high school tried to add my as a friend on Facebook. I had never heard of this person before, couldn't remember speaking to or seeing them even once. She did go to the same high school as me, but we weren't friends. Ignore request.
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.
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How pathetic. "Hey, these guys are succesful and these people are having fun! Let's spoil it!"
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.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
One that lets you "friend" random other people, create fake facebook pages for you (complete with history and the odd entry) and so on. Just to spit in the soup of various data miners.
The only thing that's worse to a data miner than giving him no data is to poison the data he has.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
All I've had so far is people throwing stuff at me. I might as well be back in high school. And the apps are over the top. Install one and the first thing it does is get in your face to spam it to all of your friends. The main problem is having the sort of friends who also forward chain letters. It sure feels the same.
How long have we had foes/freaks here? Since before I signed up, which was before any social networking sites even existed.
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The title for the lead-in on this story shouldn't have been "New Apps Enable Social Network Snubbing". It should have been "Here's Some Idiots Who Need To Get A Life".
If you don't like Facebook or Myspace, etc, don't use them. Its that simple.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
(french speacking, sorry for my bad english vocabulary but:)
It's now 4 years that the french are using a Web-Community tools
based on PARANOIA role playing rules. Political jail, cream pies
in your face, brainwashing are commun tools there used agains users.
Users managment and friends managments based on "bad idea" works great !
URL: http://www.parano.be/
\o/
It is getting to the point where you are afraid to open your mouth, without fear of "offending" someone. Screw that..... I think one of the best ways to get this "PC" crap out of everyone's system is to FORCE every man, woman & child over the age of 12 to watch the UNCUT version of Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles". They must watch it once a week for 6 months. THAT will get them over being offending, and have a good laugh to boot.
If you don't like Snubster or Enemybook, etc, don't use them. Its that simple.
[the creators] hope to encourage people to undermine, or at least mock, the online social communities...
Before Snubster there was /.
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Facebookake.
A crude virtual Death Note exists, but it would be cooler to have a Facebook application for it.
Look at the inane formulas on the whiteboard behind him. So hilariously "made for press".
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I don't think I've seen a good app, and really I'm sick of not logging in for a couple days and seeing like 40 requests for various apps. They also make people's profiles look like crap once you get more than one or two. They really need to include a feature "ignore all app requests".
:wq
From TFA: "Over the summer, Kevin Matulef, who is doing a doctoral thesis on algorithms at MIT, designed Enemybook, a software application that lets people list enemies below friends on their personal Facebook page. He describes the program as "an antisocial utility that disconnects you to the so-called friends around you."
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.
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
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.
You can't take the sky from me...
What I'd really like to see on linked in an Enemies list. Some was to (without causing a scene at the office) give people some warning about whether or not a particular person knows their stuff. For example, when dealing with a co-worker who just plain shouldn't be in the field, you can't really not link to them as they'll get pissed off or wonder why you're not. Being able to have some sort of strike against someone on the other hand might make people pause and think.. 'hey.. there's five people who wouldn't work with this guy, even though he's got 40 links.. what's up with that..'
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