Analysis: Loner creates Garbo, just for people who “want to be left alone.”
By Dan Tynan, Mar 31, 2009
Like many people, Randy Hallet is fed up with the Facebooking of the planet. Unlike most, he’s decided to do something about it. The 30-something Webpreneur has created what he calls “the anti-social network.” Hallet declined to speak by phone, though he did agree to an interview via Twitter. He tweeted: “I’m fed up with Web 2.0. I moved 3000 miles to get away from some of these people. Now I have to see what they had for lunch every day.” Many people feel pressure to participate in social networks, even when they don’t really want to, Hallet explained. The next thing they know, photos of them wearing nothing but body paint and Spock ears have been broadcast to complete strangers. It damages both their reputations and their psyches, he laments. So Hallet created “Garbo.” Named for the 1930s film star turned recluse, Garbo allows users to quietly de-friend everyone in their Linked-In, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Digg, and other social networks without anyone noticing. New friend requests sent on any of these existing services will be greeted with a one-line response: “I want to be left alone.”
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