If the concept of collecting faux friendships ala Facebook and MySpace doesn’t turn you on, maybe social networking based on people and things you hate is more your speed:

Over the past 18 months, sites such Snubster, Enemybook and Hatebook are appealing to Internet users who get a kick out of the tongue-in-cheek humor of mocking their friends and others who are just plain cynical.

“I didn’t understand these fake-friend war chests that people were so busy building online,” said Bryant Choung, a technology consultant who started Snubster last year.

“I would get Facebook requests from people I talked to for three minutes at a bar or party, and now this person wants to go online to peruse all of my photos and contacts. I just didn’t get it,” the 26-year-old added.

All three sites are amusing. It looks like Enemybook is the most polished; I especially like their use of a Godfather tagline, “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer”.

I guess this backlash amounts to “antisocial networking”. Are fake enemies more valuable, or at least endearing, than fake friends?