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Now that Internet users have forged online relationships with the people they like, they can turn their attention to shaming the folks they hate.

It currently has 1,200 users, who cumulatively have recorded nearly 2,300 acrimonious relationships

"People have always been mean and petty and now, with the culture of putting everything online and the reality shows that thrive on voting people off the island or telling people you're fired, it's not surprising that people want to blast their enemies to the world," said Patrice Oppliger, assistant professor of mass communications at Boston University.

Now 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.

"People are yearning to express the ridiculousness of some of the features of Facebook -- having all these friends that aren't genuine," Matulef said. "For some people, Enemybook is about expressing their distaste for political figures or celebrities. And for other people, it actually is about spreading hatred for their despised co-workers and exes."

Bryant Choung, 26, a software engineer in Washington, D.C., who created the program, said he was bothered that Facebook had become little more than an online popularity contest and designed Snubster to provide "a backlash against the ridiculous phenomenon that was social networking.""It's nice because Snubster was supposed to be a parody of Facebook, and by being able to work directly in and around Facebook makes it work so much better," Choung said.

We invite people to take a break from their every day experiences carrying around laptops and cellphones, and give them the chance to just disengage from the noise, the social network, the constant communication that’s going on around us all the time. We let them just experience the absence of that — the feeling of being without all those distractions. And a NoSo could happen in a number of different places. It could happen on a street corner, or in a cafe, or in an installation in a gallery setting.

Calling BeautifulPeople elitist but fair, the site's operators say they're "separating the hippos from the cheetahs" in the social networking jungle."It's not shallow to actively seek to be with someone you're attracted to. That's human nature," says Greg Hodge, managing director of BeautifulPeople. "It might not be politically correct to say so, but it certainly is honest."

Hodge says a woman from Denmark submitted her photo dozens of times over the course of two years, and was only accepted after having dieted, hired a stylist and undergone breast augmentation surgery.

All photos are policed for authenticity. Suspect members are required to e-mail an administrator a picture of themselves holding that day's newspaper. In addition, should a member not uphold the site's standard of beauty -- unless they are the victim of something unpreventible, such as a disease or car accident -- they will be shown the electronic door."We make sure the (attractiveness) level is maintained," says Hodge.

The founder of a new anti-social networking site, however, is finding that shared hates can be an equally effective bonding tool. Software engineer Bryant Choung intended to satirize social discovery services when he launched his beta site, Snubster, last month. The site lets members create public lists of people and things that rankle them. "The whole concept of online social networking was really starting to irk me," said Choung, who initially envisioned Snubster as a way to stem the often irritating flow of invitations to join networking sites like Friendster and LinkedIn. While such sites seemed like a good idea at first, their usage too often devolves into "an attempt to get as many fake friends as possible."

Snubster is among the latest in a series of sites created to poke fun at social networking. Others include Isolatr, a spoof site that claims to be "helping you find where other people are not," and Introverster, which bills itself as "an online community that prevents stupid people and friends from harassing you online."

Let the beautiful people have each other.

What we need are antisocial networking sites! Sites where instead of a Friends list, you can have an Ignore list.

BecauseImHot.com has launched as the world's first social networking site that excludes members after they have signed up for not being hot enough. Members are voted on a scale to determine if they have met the required criteria for keeping their membership active.

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Online social networks are usually all about bringing together people who like the same things. The founder of a new anti-social networking site, however, is finding that shared hates can be an equally effective bonding tool.