Add your enemies

Keep your enemies close

FORGET your nearest and dearest on Facebook. The social networking giant has launched a new app which allows you to add enemies to your profile. You know the old saying, keep your enemies closers, well now you can.

 EnemyGraph is free and allows you to add those annoying and those you secretly hate onto the app. You can also declare ‘war’ on any product, person or company that has a presence on Facebook. However, this aspect may mean bad news for businesses on Facebook.

 Its creator, Dean Terry of the University of Texas at Dallas, describes the application as ‘social media blasphemy’ and predicted that Facebook would remove the application. “When I saw the first friends list at the beginning of the social media era, I thought where’s the enemies list?” Terry said.

“Most social networks attempt to connect people based on affinities: you like a certain band or film or sports team, I like them, therefore we should be friends. But people are also connected and motivated by things they dislike,” Terry said.

“A few people have asked us about the potential for misuse. If you are not friends with someone, or not a user of the app, or generally not famous, you cannot be listed as an ‘enemy’. We will also monitor the app closely for abuse,” he added.

 A petition signed by three million people had called for an ‘Unlike’ button on Facebook; this has not yet materialized.