I Hate Social Networks

27 Responses (Add) | Sunday, July 30th, 2006 at 7:46pm

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Tired of getting friend requests from MySpace, TagWorld, Friendster, TypePad, Skype, AIM, Yahoo!, Chia Friend, LinkedIn, MSN, TextAmerica, Upcoming, Digg, Google, 30 Boxes, Second Life, Plaxo, Zooomr, ICQ, Flickr, LiveJournal, Dogster, dodgeball, Backwash, BuddyBridge, FriendFan, Classmates, Buzznet, ReferNet… not to mention Friend Surfer, friendsand, Friends of Friends, friendsbay.de, Friends of Friends, Friends Reunited, Friendoo, Friendset, Friendsync, Friendity, Friendzy… and a million others… Tyrone J. Walrustitty put the following text on his Geocities homepage:

Dear “Friend,” I don’t want to join [insert Web site name here]. I hate social networks. Hate ‘em! I’m tired of you sending these damn invitations to me. If you do it again, I’m going to stop being your friend – because inviting me to yet another social network that doesn’t interest me simply isn’t a very friendly thing to do. If I’m already on the social networks that you’re already on, I have no problem in connecting with you there. As it stands, however, my tolerance for social networks is turning me anti-social. If I add one more social network to my social network network, I’m truly going to go social on yo’ ass.

Based on this simple idea, Tyrone launched Hermitster, raised $8.2 billion in funding, and sold the property to Rupert Murderock for well over a trillion dollars.

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27 Comments

Alt-Ctrl-Del

August 6th, 2006
at 4:22pm

I Hate Social Networks [IMG I Hate Social Networks] Tired of getting friend requests from MySpace, TagWorld, Friendster, TypePad, Skype, AIM, Yahoo!, Chia Friend, LinkedIn, MSN, TextAmerica, Upcoming, Digg, Google, 30 Boxes, Second Life, Plaxo, Zooomr, ICQ, Flickr, LiveJournal, Dogster, dodgeball,

Chris Pirillo

August 6th, 2006
at 12:44pm

The Most Awesome Social Network Ever August 1, 2006 at 1:19 pm · in Comic · Comments [IMG I Hate Social Networks] Tired of getting friend requests from MySpace, TagWorld, Friendster, TypePad, Skype, AIM, Yahoo!, Chia Friend, LinkedIn, MSN, TextAmerica, Upcoming, Digg, Google, 30 Boxes, Second Life, Plaxo, Zooomr, ICQ, Flickr, LiveJournal, Dogster, dodgeball,

From the Other Window

August 2nd, 2006
at 10:43am

[IMG I Hate Social Networks] Don’t get me wrong – I loved being able to connect with my friends(ters) way back when. I loved the pictures and messaging and all that. The problem is that these services, when they’re not performing their (basic) task of maintaining social

CrabApple.cc

August 1st, 2006
at 9:45pm

Finally, a social network for Beth

Digital Impulses

July 31st, 2006
at 2:22pm

Here’s what Blaugh has to say about the web-craze labled ‘Social Networking’: [IMG I Hate Social Networks] Top notch, grade lampooning.

Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection

July 31st, 2006
at 12:55pm

[IMG I Hate Social Networks] Cartoon courtesy of blaugh.

unterwegs beobachtet

October 12th, 2006
at 8:05am

Social networking, my ass.Jul 31, 2006 – 09:59 PM [IMG I Hate Social Networks] Dear “Friend,�? I don’t want to join [insert Web site name here]. I hate social networks. Hate ‘em! I’m tired of you sending these damn invitations to me. If you do it again, I’m going to stop being your friend – because inviting me to yet

Federico Paparoni WebLog

November 7th, 2009
at 1:09pm

un blog, un sito, una mailing list o forum dove qualcuno la pensa come te. Infatti cercando un pò su Google (perchè rileggendo quello che scrivevo mi sono detto “sono acido io?!”) trovo un bel numero di blog che parlano di sentimenti simili, come tizio, caio e sempronio. Cosa dire in definitiva? Forse uso il Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator e avvio una startup [IMG :)]

malawika - blog about blogging and making money online

March 6th, 2008
at 6:54pm

Dave Winer Reduction Long Tail Tall Tale Technorati Tag Overload

ClappingTree's Web 2.0

February 14th, 2007
at 8:12am

survey, especially after doing a Google search on “fatigue, social networks, tired”. Even found a comic at Blaugh entitled “I Hate Social Networks”! I can safely infer that there IS indeed widespread social network fatigue.I Hate Social NetworksData portability had been on my mind. So, I couldn’t agree with O’Hear more. However, I wonder: Couldn’t ZDNet and the four social network leaders interviewed have set the ball rolling and start leading by example? You see, just to cast a vote and to add

Josh Bancroft

July 30th, 2006
at 9:10pm

You forgot Twttr. ;-)

Skeptic

July 31st, 2006
at 11:45am

I couldn\’t agree more…

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August 2nd, 2006
at 9:27pm

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August 17th, 2006
at 2:56am

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September 5th, 2006
at 12:20pm

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September 7th, 2006
at 9:04pm

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Bingeboy

September 21st, 2006
at 12:57pm

Where has this blog been my whole life?

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December 4th, 2006
at 2:36am

THANKS! I HATE DOGSTER WITH ALL MY HEART!

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December 16th, 2006
at 6:43am

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February 6th, 2007
at 7:58pm

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JK

February 14th, 2007
at 7:37pm

Couldn’t agree more! Have posted similar thoughts AND a few proposed solutions at my site. Check them out. Also, hope to get more responses to my poll at http://quimble.com/poll/view/5348

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