# I wanna create an anti-social network **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356 "2013-03-08T06:25:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/1 "2013-03-08T06:25:52Z")
I tried MySpace, I tried Facebook, I even tried LinkdIn, and they all pestered me so much, and they led people to me who pestered me even more, that eventually I shut them all down. I’m sure there are millions of embittered cave dwellers out there like me, who want to scream, and maybe even don’t mind responses, but don’t want endless “suggestions” on who can be my intertubes fuck buddy. SDMB fits the bill pretty well, but as noted in an [ATMB thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=684532), somehow and in some cases our connections here leak out into those other social networks, and the pestering happens. So, what is needed? First, I don’t want to provide an email address, any email address, when registering. This means the site can never even acknowledge my registration, if I forget my password I’m fucked, etc. Ah well, so be it. Also, the site and server need to be in whatever place in the world has the most rigid and inviolable privacy laws, in case I want to brag about my blood diamonds or recovered Holocaust art treasures. There will be no “friendship” or “follow” or “like” connections. You can respond to my threads, but I can delete your comments, or edit them to make them seem as if they adore me. To be fair, you can go back and delete my, er, improvements to your comments if you don’t like them. And I can create endless sock accounts to worship my main account if I want, or if I’m just schizophrenic. What else is needed? Oh, how does it make money? Volume! ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/2 "2013-03-08T07:45:38Z")
You could set up your own [Diaspora pod](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Installation-Guides). It’s a decentralized Open Source network, and you could connect your pod to the rest of the community or keep it private and only let select people join it. I’m thinking of setting up a private one to represent the social mesh in a science fiction RPG campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/3 "2013-03-08T07:56:29Z")
Sounds like a great idea. Can’t wait not to join. Where don’t I sign up? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/4 "2013-03-08T07:58:18Z")
There’ll be no advertising, only word of mouth, and I never leave my cave, and I don’t talk to strangers anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/5 "2013-03-08T10:45:18Z")
You could model your on-line unsocial club after the [Diogenes Club](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Club) in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Members would be allowed to sign on, but it will be forbidden for anybody to post anything. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/6 "2013-03-08T12:18:08Z")
My website is so private it’s not even online. ---
**Author:** ![SirGalahad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@SirGalahad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirGalahad)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/7 "2013-03-08T12:48:38Z")
I’m in. You can call it “Assbook”. ---
**Author:** ![HipGnosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@HipGnosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HipGnosis)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/8 "2013-03-08T21:24:25Z")
Take a felt tipped pen to the bathroom. Your only submission limits are the stock of T.P. and the time it takes between flushes to ‘recharge’ the toilet tank. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/9 "2013-03-08T21:41:05Z")
Reminds of the the Bizarro comic where the hipster asked for a ticket to Radio-Free Europe. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/10 "2013-03-08T21:43:19Z")
I shall call this The Day Boyo Jim Invented the Journal. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/11 "2013-03-08T22:41:56Z")
Count me in. Now, Piss Off! ---
**Author:** ![dexter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dc4da7/32.png) [@dexter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dexter)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/12 "2013-03-09T00:57:10Z")
Boyo Jim, the one man anti-social network miracle. He posts, then scowls at his own craven attention whoring. He responds to himself with dismissive condescension. He momentarily slips the confines of his misanthropy, Posting a plea to himself to seek professional help. Lather, rinse, repeat. Sorry, Jim. I couldn’t help myself. Would you? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/13 "2013-03-09T01:13:06Z")
The annual get together will be in the middle of nowhere. Why don’t you go there now and wait for me. The price of admission is a rat’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/14 "2013-03-09T01:54:47Z")
I’ll join as long as I don’t have to interact with anyone. A suggestion: Each new member is automatically added to everyone else’s Ignore list. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/15 "2013-03-09T02:06:56Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > I’ll join as long as I don’t have to interact with anyone. > > A suggestion: > > Each new member is automatically added to everyone else’s Ignore list. That’s a keeper! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/16 "2013-03-09T02:16:54Z")
Yes, Bumbershoot has the right idea. You must allow aliases and fake names. Maybe you can make money by fining people who use their real name. Instead of a “Like” button, I want a “Shut Up” button. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/17 "2013-03-09T02:44:35Z")
#1 Rule: Be a Jerk. Threadshitting should be encouraged, even required. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/18 "2013-03-09T10:06:11Z")
Other than editing others posts, I feel like you’ll really **love** 4chan. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/19 "2013-03-09T11:04:02Z")
What’s all the damn ruckus up in this heyah thread? If I have to put on pants and come out there, then someone is going to be helping to break in a new ball gag. [kidding, or not 😉] ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/20 "2013-03-09T20:15:48Z")
I believe I have come up with the network’s motto – a slight restatement of a phrase made famous by Groucho: “I would never join a club that would have someone like you as a member.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356.md?page=2)