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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?
Oh sure. Let's bash Americans on a Saturday before they roll out of the sack. In the spirit of the topic, y'all can set up your own snubbing social network and not let us in. Gosh, wouldn't that make us feel bad?
Yeah, we changed humor, color, program, ton, and others because the King's English is fraught with frippery.
I was a pathetic loser of 42, still living in my Mom's basement and writing software for DOS before Facebook.
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?
Just to spit in the soup of various data miners.
Wow, way to stick it to the man, dude!
You just got troll'd!
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.
I have 27 friends on my Facebook and 46 friends on my Myspace (many of whom are on Facebook too).
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).
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Facebookake.