Sunday, August 12, 2007

ideas for anti-social networking

Sadly, the domains getoutofmyfacebook.com and yourinvadingmyspace.com are taken by cybersquatters. Still, there's got to be a market for anti-social networking sites for introverts such as myself. I'm thinking something like this:
  • Instead of sending "winks", you could send "cold glares"
  • Instead of "friends" you can have "people you're avoiding"
  • "what I'm doing" would be replaced with "passive-aggressive behaviors"
You get the point.

All of these ideas grew out of a late-night post comedy and ice cream bit of brainstorming near Davis Square with some friends last night.

If only I were social enough to actually want to implement any of this. :)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, the first time I check your site in months and you have a new posting.

Anyhow, you could try hideyourfacebook.com or showyourfacebook.com for alternates. Both are available.

One other thing, I decided to cross the fence, join the other team, or whatever you want to say it is. The IBM finally decided to say it had enough. I recently replaced it with a new MacBook Pro. Thought you'd be interested to hear that.

Congratulations, by the way, on getting married and on the upcoming 1 year anniversary!

Robert

Sunnie said...

He speaks! 6 months without a word!

Happy almost Anniversary!

jason said...

The anniversary was actually back on the 5th (wasn't feeling in much of a posting mood immediately afterwards). Thanks.

Unknown said...

You may be interested in NoSo (see http://www.metafilter.com/64195/Just-Say-NoSo ) for context.

It's a movement of people gathering and NOT using electronics, liveblogging, etc., etc.