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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. Bad Idea by TechForensics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have never seen what could turn out to be a better lawsuit incubator.

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    1. Re:Bad Idea by therufus · · Score: 2, Insightful

      And that will be because society in general has lost its sense of humour.

      (Yes, I'm Australian, we spell it humour.)

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    2. Re:Bad Idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Thats because it's spelt humour, it's just the Americans that decided to change it.

    3. Re:Bad Idea by 15Bit · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think its less a sense of humour loss and more an overdeveloped sense of political correctness. It just seems that half the western world wakes up in a morning looking for ways to be offended. And if they can't take offence directly they do it by proxy, taking offence for some random social demographic who they feel *would* be offended if they knew about it.

  2. Problem is the way it's used by sqrt(2) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  3. Another feature stolen from Slashdot by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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  4. along the same lines... by bryz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you don't like Snubster or Enemybook, etc, don't use them. Its that simple.

  5. Prior art by HangingChad · · Score: 2, Insightful

    [the creators] hope to encourage people to undermine, or at least mock, the online social communities...

    Before Snubster there was /.

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  6. LinkedIn needs something like this by Animats · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.