# 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:** 2
**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, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/21 "2013-03-09T20:41:31Z")
[I got your “member” right here.](http://nomaas.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/russellmartin_Grab.jpg) 😃 😉 ---
**Author:** ![alindallas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@alindallas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alindallas)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/22 "2013-03-09T23:28:42Z")
I hate to be a bother, so please ignore this post. I will pretend that I am writing it to myself. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/23 "2013-03-10T02:06:31Z")
> [@alindallas](#): > > I hate to be a bother, so please ignore this post. I will pretend that I am writing it to myself. Consider it done. Oh. Oops. ---
**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 10, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/24 "2013-03-10T03:28:05Z")
> [@alindallas](#): > > I hate to be a bother, so please ignore this post. I will pretend that I am writing it to myself. Believe me, you are. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/25 "2013-03-10T03:35:04Z")
All kidding aside, or at least until I get distra. . . - squirrel! This is actually something I was thinking about recently. Only it wasn’t really an anti-social concept but something more along the lines of an online community that restricted interaction for the sake of quality. The idea I had would revolve around whatever I could come up with that was the online equivalent, more or less, of a dinner party. Not literally in that it had to last for just a couple hours over the course of an evening. Also, not a kegger thrown by one of your alcoholic friends either. I’m talking about a bona fide gathering of maybe 5-8 people all of whom the host knows well or has good dossiers on from mutual friends. Each person is chosen carefully with the needs, interests and sensibilities of the other participants in mind - not so as to insulate each other, but so as to provide the best mix of what is familiar and what is new and perhaps even threatening. Personally, I don’t think it’s possible, but I’ve been told repeated that I’m not only wrong but clueless and I have to admit that there is evidence to support this conclusion. Anyway, I started thinking about whether it would be possible to do something like that online. It would be hugely labor intensive, but the quality of the experience and the bonds it could form might be extraordinary. So I’m throwing it out there if anybody wants to pick it apart, ignore it, whatever. 🙂 ---
**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 10, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/26 "2013-03-10T03:43:01Z")
> [@deltasigma](#): > > … I’m talking about a bona fide gathering of maybe 5-8 people all of whom the host knows well or has good dossiers on from mutual friends. Each person is chosen carefully with the needs, interests and sensibilities of the other participants in mind - not so as to insulate each other, but so as to provide the best mix of what is familiar and what is new and perhaps even threatening. … Does Charlie Manson have internet access? He would be interesting to have dinner with, so long as he remained in a cage and I was outside the cage. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/27 "2013-03-12T23:54:54Z")
> [@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. “Dislike” this message. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/28 "2013-03-12T23:55:59Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > #1 Rule: Be a Jerk. > > Threadshitting should be encouraged, even required. So. It’s modeled after Congress then? ---
**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 13, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/29 "2013-03-13T00:13:56Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > “Dislike” this message. Fortunately for Bumbershoot, he’ll never see that. ---
**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 13, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/30 "2013-03-13T00:21:09Z")
See what? ---
**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 13, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/31 "2013-03-13T01:05:49Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > “Dislike” this message. I’ve been trying to come up with a witty response, Shirley, but as usual I only get about halfway to ‘witty’. I thought of a variety of snarky insulting replies (clever stuff like “Fuck off”) but I don’t know if that kind of thing is permitted in this forum, even when I’m only joking. So here’s what I finally came up with: “Oh Yeah?!?” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/32 "2013-03-13T14:39:38Z")
**Freddy the Pig** doesn’t know you, doesn’t follow you, doesn’t like you, doesn’t know anybody that you know, doesn’t like this thread, and doesn’t want to be your friend or your Internet fuckbuddy. Please consider adding him to your anti-social non-network. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/33 "2013-03-13T18:45:52Z")
As long as we can have Unlike buttons, I’m not there. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/34 "2013-03-13T19:34:45Z")
I already have my own anti-social network. You are all officially uninvited. So far it’s working exactly as it should. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/35 "2013-05-07T21:00:33Z")
Just bumping this in hopes of more Witty Retorts. Since I’m here, I’ll mention that I consider these boards to be the best Anti-Social Network I’ve ever seen (esp. MPSIMS and the Pit). I’ve never had to “friend” or PM or give any details about my life to anyone here. And yet, I get awesome entertainment like _“Freddy the Pig doesn’t know you, doesn’t follow you, doesn’t like you…”_ ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/36 "2013-05-07T22:21:30Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Just bumping this in hopes of more Witty Retorts. Hmm. Retort is defined as “A container or furnace for carrying out a chemical process on a large or industrial scale.” It’s hard to imagine one being witty, but I suppose one can always hope. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/37 "2013-05-07T23:12:20Z")
Google already beat you to it I’m afraid. Never heard of Google+? Neither has anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/38 "2013-05-08T03:04:55Z")
> [@SirGalahad](#): > > You can call it “Assbook”. I had this idea a couple years ago. Only in my vision of it, you “friend” the people you hate, and they “friend” the people they hate, and then you can, I don’t know, conspire against each other. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”, or something. I only worked it out as far as “???.. Profit!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/39 "2013-05-08T03:47:03Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > I had this idea a couple years ago. Only in my vision of it, you “friend” the people you hate, and they “friend” the people they hate, and then you can, I don’t know, conspire against each other. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”, or something. > > I only worked it out as far as “???.. Profit!” 🙂 As a general rule I’ve found that “enemies” are generally assholes. So their enemies should be a match for me, right? Except no. Turns out, their enemies are still assholes, just different kinds of assholes. This would work if these folks turned out to be an asshole just like me, but alas, it is never such. You see, because there is such a high level of speciation within the genus Homo Cornholio the enemy of an enemy is virtually NEVER the RIGHT kind of asshole - YOUR kind of asshole. Rather, it is ALWAYS some OTHER kind of annoying fucking asshole. So for the truism about ‘the enemy of your enemy’ etc. to be true it would have to be reworded to read something like “the asshole of my asshole is my asshole” - which we can plainly see is bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356/40 "2013-05-08T21:15:49Z")
> [@deltasigma](#): > > As a general rule I’ve found that “enemies” are generally assholes. So their enemies should be a match for me, right? Except no. Turns out, their enemies are still assholes, just different kinds of assholes. This would work if these folks turned out to be an asshole just like me, but alas, it is never such. The asshole of my enemy is my friend. _–Chinese proverb_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-create-an-anti-social-network/652356.md?page=3)