Welcome to my second "Let's Discuss". In this topic, we'll be discussing Social Networks. But not anything on the usually scale. What I mean by that is "Social Networks" by means of the users being anonymous. Now, one would think that the moment it is deemed/becomes a "Social Network", that it can't be anonymous.

But I think, on the other hand, that it's just not really been done. 4Chan is really a message board of sorts. Image Board. Bulletin Board. It doesn't really constitute for a Social Network. Not to me, anyhow. How would one go about creating a Social Network that is purely "Anonymous" based? What would have to go into it's conception? How would any such profiles work out?

Personally I think profiles should be automated. All you do is put in an Email and a Password upon registrations and that it gives you a premade profile that comes with an Avatar, and your Email. With that, a private message function, a stats function that shows the user's "postings" for posts and thread making, and when they joined.

Possibly the ability to change the layout of a profile, but otherwise all profiles are the same. What do you think of the matter? How would one go about making this type of Social Networking site?

Well, some time ago I was working on an anonymous board called Darkside, but now the site is being developed by some friends.
We do not store data about the users, and the email of the users is hidden.
It's a small project, but they are doing some good work.
Hope this helps.
http://drksde.tk/
password: we have cookies

I've done Anonymous networking as I could possibly commit. I made a site back in January (haven't done anything with it since then) for chatting in rooms and posting in forums, all while be anonymous. No IP's logged, no joining, the only thing that logs any sort of cookie is the chatrooms which is needed to provide the session for your entered username across the other chatrooms.

websters.netai.net

There was a site I used to go to, it doesn't exist any more.
Like our site it was password protected. You make a password and username combo to log in, but that user name never appears in chat. It was forced anonymous, you would be assigned a number when you first posted in a thread, that same number would become your name, but only for that thread, having a different 'name' for each thread. Only Admins had names that stayed the same. There was also automated word filters, so that common key terms would change into different words. Making it hard to search for the site via keywords in google.
My friend, the owner and designer of the site also considered forcing users to use a proxy. if the same IP logged in to the same account more than twice a week that account would delete itself. He never implemented that, but it would have been interesting.

Well, now almost all the users are from Spain, we planned a lot of new features, but the developers are busy now, anyway, if someone have any idea, everyone it's free to write anything in any language :D

Well youtube makes you have a gmail account now. A great anonymous email is tormail.org You have to access it using the tor browser. The only way one can bypass tors encryption is if you allow certain plug ins that trick it into revealing your real ip address. Tor solved this by providing the Tor bundle. It instantly uninstalls any of those plugins while in the Tor browser. So as long as when something pops up on a site that asks your permission to install plug ins just say no and you remain completely anonymous. The only way they could possibly find out who you are or where you might be is if you provide them with that information. Like if you mention if you are male or female. What town you are in, what school you go to or any REAL information. Any contact information for rl contact should be sent through tormail, then deleted, and cleaned from your trash folder, because they keep no back logs of the emails. Of course the people you give it to you have to have a level of trust or they can reveal who you are as well. Make the social networking site have to use the tor browser, and tormail to register. Of course if they find out an approximate area of where you might be isn't really a problem. If the city you are in has a bunch of people or even only a few thousand or hundred they can't find you. Each time you access the tor network it gives you a new ip address so if they found out you were using tor you can give them a different reason. Say you just like your privacy . Or something like that, because even if they searched your computer they couldn't find what you did while you used the tor network, because it saves no cookies for any emails or messages. Although some hacker forums and sites don't allow more then one registered member per ip adress for a certain amount of hours ( some take years others a few months) So because of how tor works, you shouldn't design it to work like that, because then less people could sign up, since tor connects you to a fake ip address in their email. If you do use actual pictures where some sort of a mask so they can't identify you, such as the guy fawkes mask if your into anonymous or v for vendetta

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When did Tor get a mail service?
I haven't used Tor in 3-4 years, but I never heard of this.

I'll work on trying to make my imageboard more mixing a bit of social networking with that of the imageboard itself, to see how it'd work.

Anyone interestend in helping with Darkside?

>>7 tormail.org