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.

You can definitely tell there are teenagers on the site,” says Bryant Choung, Snubster’s founder. “They put their teachers on there for too much homework or being too hard on them.”

Let the beautiful people have each other.

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.

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.

The popularity of social networking sites may also have unexpected consequences for users. A gay student attending a Christian college was expelled after administration officials viewed photos of the student in drag on Facebook. Twenty middle school students in California were suspended after participating in a MySpace group where one student allegedly threatened to kill another and made anti-Semitic remarks. In Kansas, authorities arrested five teenagers after one of the suspects used MySpace to outline plans for a Columbine-like attack on the boys' school.

These things can have exponential growth. Then, if another community shows up that has better functionality in some way, there can be a mass migration."

Virtual communities together form a social network which is superimposed on, and complementary to, the network consisting of face-to-face communities.

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

The first stage, popular cyberculture, is marked by its journalistic origins and characterized by its descriptive nature, limited dualism, and use of the Internet-as- frontier metaphor. The second stage, cyberculture studies, focuses largely on virtual communities and online identities and benefits from an influx of academic scholars. The third stage, critical cyberculture studies, expands the notion of cyberculture to include four areas of study -- online interactions, digital discourses, access and denial to the Internet, and interface design of cyberspace -- and explores the intersections and interdependencies between any and all four domains