Anti-Social Networking Ideas

A while ago I made a satirical entry about a fictional website called getawayfromme.com

Today I was made aware that similar anti-social networking sites exist, arsebook and farcebook These sites aren't nearly as innovative as getawayfromme.com, which is disappointing. Basically, all they did was paint the old idea a different color, "Instead of your friends, it'll be your enemies!"

Uh huh.

Discovering another one of my predictions about the Internet, culture, and art exists is affirming but not surprising. Humans have only a limited number of reactions, therefore the idea of an anti-social networking site was inevitable.

Where do you suppose all the other inversions of websites are. Where's the upturned Twitter where you can type all the words you want (er... I think that's called a blog), or how about a variant of Google that changes your search into an anagram of what you typed and searches that instead.

"Above all, it's creative thinking that lies at the basis of discoveries. You must dare to think differently, see things from different sides, in order to come across fortuitous new ideas frequently. You should develop even the most stupid ideas and when you do this systematically, there will always come something useful out of it." -Simon van der Meer

Google is... Round 2

While wasting more time typing random phrases and questions into the Google search bar something occurred to me.
The aggregate of searches typed into Google is a window into the human condition.
The questions people ask, their desperation for answers about the unknown; these are the similarities about being human that might be exactly what people need to get past the shallow differences that are created by our post-modern world.

What are people searching for when they turn to the Internet...

Self reflection


Express feelings


Review morality


Search for help


Probe the unknown


Speculate on the mysteries that surround them


Question the limits of the physical world


Make statements about life


Discuss the Universe


Figure out who that dude in tights is

Google is...

Lately I've obsessed myself with attempts at getting a better hold on what the Internet is thinking.
One of the more amusing attempts came from a google screenshot someone showed me displaying the search results for the phrase "Chinese people are..."

Taking it a step further I made my own collection of screenshots from google involving the intimate and unprincipled relationships of human dichotomy.

Three of my favorites so far:
Men are like waffles women are like spaghetti
Young people are no longer interested in buying newspapers or magazines in print format...
Fat people are harder to kidnap


Men are...


Women are...


Old people are...


Young people are...


Atheists are...


Religious people are...


Black people are...


Chinese people are...


Hispanic people are...


Japanese people are...


Jewish people are...


White people are...


Immigrants are...


Myspace is...


Facebook is...


Twitter is...


Fat people are...