New apps put the hate in online networking - The Boston Globe
Enemybook, Snubster allow Facebook users to link up with their nemeses
By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff | October 10, 2007Now that Internet users have forged online relationships with the people they like, they can turn their attention to shaming the folks they hate.
With Enemybook, a new program that runs on the social networking site Facebook, you can connect to people you loathe, display their photos and evil deeds, and give them the virtual finger.
Enemybook is one of several new online applications developed by computer-savvy twentysomethings who say they are tired of bogus online friendships. 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.
Over the summer, Kevin Matulef, who is doing a doctoral thesis on algorithms at MIT, designed Enemybook, a software application that lets people list enemies below friends on their personal Facebook page. He describes the program as "an antisocial utility that disconnects you to the so-called friends around you."
Uh, somebody just popped up on 400 grammar nazis' Enemies Lists.