Meet The Anti-Facebook and Its Bold Leader

Have you ever fantasized about being invisible or being able to do or say whatever you wanted without having to deal with the repercussions of your actions? Think about how your interactions with other human beings would differ if you knew you had total anonymity? All your socially constructed filters would be questioned and perhaps abandoned.

Sound like fun, well then Christopher “moot” Poole has just the site for you.  Moot is the founder of 4chan.org, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, which is NOT a social network. Unlike other online communities such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace 4chan does not have a registration process, is totally anonymous and does not archive any of the user content. This bold online community model flies in the face of the existing social currency paradigm where every user is both a media producer and a brand.

With over 7 million users monthly, submitting over 700,000 posts daily it is clear that this no holds barred, wild wild west approach to online communities has its supporters. Personally, I think it would be liberating to type, tweet and speak my mind with absolutely no regards towards how my actions will be judges by others.

Think about it, how much of who you are, is truly YOU, as oppose to a who society has told you to be.