Maybe I haven't been reading bOINGbOING fastidiously enough, but this NYTimes story is the first I've heard of the latest wrinkle on [anti]social networking technology, alibi clubs. Alibi clubs are networks of strangers which broadcast SMS messages requesting assistance in concocting alibis for dodging social obligations and suspicious partners. Alibi clubs almost seem like the opposite of Friendster and Orkut, where people use software to link themselves online with their putative friends; here people go online for one-time offline interactions with strangers.
So I guess you've got the ultimate 21st-century lifestyle if you go dogging with a stranger you met while toothing and then use an alibi club to cover your tracks, huh.
Meanwhile, I'm wondering exactly what kind of alibi could have helped out the woman who got pregnant while her husband was away in Iraq!
Posted by: Prentiss Riddle at June 28, 2004 03:59 PMImmaculate conception, but I can't imagine who would call that in.
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