• It’s an obvious play on Flash  Mobs, although, of course, without  publicity
• We invite people to take a break from their every day experiences carrying  around laptops and cellphones, and give them the chance to just disengage from  the noise, the social network, the constant communication that’s going on around  us all the time. We let them just experience the absence of that — the feeling  of being without all those distractions. And a NoSo could happen in a number of  different places. It could happen on a street corner, or in a cafe, or in an  installation in a gallery setting.

• You can definitely tell there are teenagers on the site,” says Bryant Choung,  Snubster’s founder. “They put their teachers on there for too much homework or  being too hard on them.”
• For now, it’s just all good fun—except for the rare few times posts get a little  too nasty—and too personal

• The site's operators say they're simply "separating the hippos from the  cheetahs" in the social-networking jungle
• "It's not shallow to actively seek to be with someone you're attracted to.  That's human nature," said Greg Hodge, managing director of BeautifulPeople. "It  might not be politically correct to say so, but it certainly is honest."
• Let the beautiful people have each other.

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• A well-executed Facebook parody site called Hatebook has stepped in to provide  (temporary) misanthropes with a place to air grievances about everything they  hate.
• A well-executed Facebook parody site called Hatebook has stepped in to provide  (temporary) misanthropes with a place to air grievances about everything they  hate.
• With the development of the Facebook platform, we are even seeing these efforts  made within  Facebook itself, with the Enemybook app. Why  hate outside of Facebook, when you can hate within it?

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• Now that Internet users have forged online relationships with the people they  like, they can turn their attention to shaming the folks they hate.
• In a dig at the notion of virtual networking, they hope to encourage people to  undermine, or at least mock, the online social communities sites such as  Facebook were designed to create
• For some people, Enemybook is about expressing their distaste for political  figures or celebrities. And for other people, it actually is about spreading  hatred for their despised co-workers and exes."
• It currently has 1,200 users, who cumulatively have recorded nearly 2,300  acrimonious relationships
• "People have always been mean and petty and now, with the culture of putting  everything online and the reality shows that thrive on voting people off the  island or telling people you're fired, it's not surprising that people want to  blast their enemies to the world," said Patrice Oppliger, assistant professor of  mass communications at Boston University.
• "The entertainment of being mean is almost elevated to a new level."

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• Online social networks are usually all about bringing together people who  like the same things.

   

  The founder of a new anti-social networking site, however, is finding that  shared hates can be an equally effective bonding tool.
• It seems as though people find entertainment and connections in finding other  people that hate the same things as them."

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