Disqus
After “Please Rob Me,” we have another Foursquare-based service. It’s called Avoidr and as you can guess for yourself, it allows users to avoid certain people.
You can select any Foursquare contact and declare him or her “dead to you.” And that’s just a start – you can also insult some person, picking from a list that includes such things as “jerk,” “cancer” or “douchelord.” It’s hilarious. 
I’m not a big fan of Foursquare, but I can clearly see how it (and other location-based social networks for that matter) can be useful. Moreover, I’ve no doubts that “Please Rob Me” and Avoidr are just the beginning, and we’ll definitely see more cool (and non-cool) things being made by third-party developers. In the meantime, feel free to insult me on Foursquare.
(Actually you can’t cause I’m not using it).
And finally, it’s also interesting to put Avoidr in the other perspective — whenever someone creates a service for friending people online, a new, completely opposite service emerges. Hatebook is probably the best example…
[Via: MobileBehaviour, textually]
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
