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New Apps Enable Social Network Snubbing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:Bad Idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The -or ending was the original form from Latin, and quite popular with our ancestral brethren, too. Much like the change of hw- to wh-, you can thank the French for numerous boggling aspects to the English language.

  2. Re:Don't forget my personal favorite... by noidentity · · Score: 2, Informative

    Whenever anyone tries to get me to join their social networking site, I just point them to the only one I'll ever need: isolatr.

  3. Re:Bad Idea by SigmundFloyd · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you're missing the point: the site is not going to get sued for being a parody. Its own users are the ones at risk of lawsuit for publicly defaming people.

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