Anti-Social Networking App Helps You Avoid Friends You Don't Like

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Connect Cloak to Foursquare and Instagram and the app brings up a map displaying your location and the locations of friends who have checked in nearby. If there's someone you want to avoid, select "flag" and the app will alert you when that person gets within a certain radius of you. A half mile is the default radius but you can set it to be as small as one block or as big as two miles.

Cloak's "antisocial networking" app will alert you when friends you don't want to see are nearby.


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"The location data just isn't there," the company explains in their iTunes description. "Most users have it turned off and even when it's on, it's quite vague."


In an email to the Washington Post, Baker said: “I think we’ve seen the crest of the big social network … I think anti-social stuff is on the rise. You’ll be seeing more and more of these types of projects.”