Spread some Christmas cheer today and tomorrow to all your online “friends.” Or, you can be a real, go-it-alone American and sign up for one of several new anti-social networks. It’s all the fun of real social networks like Facebook and MySpace, only with the faux, forced amity. Choose from the likes of Hatebookand Snubster and make things like “friend wars”—I have more friends than you do—a thing of the past. You know what’s crushing? Coming home for Christmas and finding out that your little brother has more Facebook friends than you (that is, me) do. Perhaps I should revise my policy of ignoring all human contact outside of AIM and our Campfire chat room. Parody sites start anti-social networking trend [Reuters/Yahoo! via The Raw Feed] → Read More
I think a lot of people must have gotten one too many Linked-in requests recently, because tonight I came across two “anti-social networks” (although one is just a joke): Isolatr and Snubster. Isolatr Isolatr isn’t a real service, but it should be. Sean Bonner of Metroblogging created the site, which promises to “help you find where other people aren’t”. For bonus content, check out the FAQs (every answer is “no”). I love the attention to detail, like calling it a beta service, leaving the “e” out of the name and adding fake quotes from Doc Searls and Xeni Jardin. Chris Pirillo has been asking for something like this (but real) for ages. Valleywag has more. Snubster Bryant Choung’s Snubster is an actual, live service. It helps you notify people, and the world, that you are pissed off at someone. The “On Notice” feature tells them that they have committed an “infraction” and are in a suspension period. If they really screw up, you can state that they are “Dead to Me”. Each user has a profile (example) where they can get into the juicy details. The only question I have is, why is there an “e” before the “r” in the snubster name? Any other good ones out there that I’ve missed? → Read More
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