In our age of oversharing on the Internet, it was only a matter of time before people started looking to the same kinds of tools they use to connect with each other people to try to find ways to disconnect when those same people get to be a little… much. I couldn’t help noticing two of those tools get a little attention yesterday, just in time for SXSW: 

Avoidr hilariously uses the Foursquare API to secretly designate some of your Foursquare friends as people to avoid, and warns you of there whereabouts so you can stay away. I don’t have a lot of use for something like that in my life — I’m only Foursquare friends with people I’d be really happy to have join me, like Kenyatta — but I could see people younger than me, who might be connected to friends and roommates they secretly can’t stand, exes, etc., finding this kind of useful. And the site crashed yesterday from too much traffic, so I think they hit a nerve.

Meanwhile, if there’s someone you follow on Twitter that you normally love, but they’re in the middle of something they can’t shut up about (SXSW, Olympic figure skating, The World Series, a really awesome vacation, etc.), Mutetweets gives you a temporary mute button, allowing you to unfollow them for a set period of time, then automatically add them back when the period’s over. I’ve long thought this should be a core Twitter feature, and that you should be able to mute a person without them even knowing, but until then, here’s the next best thing. 

Looks like the beginning of a trend to me. What other apps are you all seeing out there that might qualify as antisocial media? (Answer over at the nextnewblog.)