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"Antisocial" sites mock the friendliness of Web 2.0

Photo: Mathieu Gendron Almost every well-known web project inevitably has an army of opponents. The more popular the project, the more oppositionists. They gather in groups and even create new sites with the prefix "anti-" in order to annoy the object of hatred or to fill in the functionality that they lack. It is very interesting to look at the so-called "antisocial" sites that formally set themselves up against the social networking site Facebook, but in fact ridicule the modern practice of social networks with fake friends, hypocritical friendliness and a pathetic parody of real life.
Those who are dissatisfied with the Facebook functionality have at least two tools for discharging negative emotions: this is Enemybook and Snubster . The first is a program that is installed in the browser and distorts the text of Facebook pages: along with “friends”, “enemies” appear in the profile, so the concept of a social network acquires new shades of meaning. You can even find users who have the same enemies as you. The Snubster project does roughly the same thing, only on its own website. Here, people make hate lists, voting not only against disgusting people, but against any objects (Internet Explorer browser, Scientology, etc.).

via Boston Globe

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/15091/


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