December 5th, 2008

The Anti-Social Network

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There have always been oddball things that attract people for barebones reasons. For example in Japan you can rent “anger rooms” where you pay by the hour for a perfectly made up room, which you can absolutely destroy. What stands out about this idea is that the people who rent these rooms seem to possess a calculated responsibility over their anger management. Instead of taking frustration out on their own possessions or in front of their family and friends, they let someone provide a space to blow off steam.

This seems to be the same idea behind Ifuckinghateyou.com–possibly the world’s first anti-social network. Poking around on the site seems like a freak show at first. Crazy people dressed as if everyday is Halloween. You can be friends with other users, but only if they share a common hatred for an IFHY user.

However anti-social IFHY seems to be, one thing is apparent. It seems as though IFHY may be the only completely honest social network around. The environment breeds a community of people who not only want to know what people think of them, but are also not afraid to tell people that they look fat, or are assholes for forgetting a birthday, or are simply disliked for undisclosed reasons. IFHY is more of an adult version of their G rated counterparts. It reminds us of a grown-up edition of the honesty and trust games we all used to play at camp. The only difference is that ifuckinghateyou.com is much more fun.

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