Finally! An app for my social type!

The Story:

We have myriad tech-enabled ways to encounter friends (and strangers!) in real life. We can check in on Foursquare. Tag a location on Instagram. Swipe on Tinder. Tweet, from just about anywhere.

The inevitable backlash has, at last, arrived: It’s called Cloak, and it’s an “antisocial network” that uses social check-ins and other geo-location information to help you avoid people you’d, well, rather not see.

Here’s how the app works. After downloading Cloak for the first time, you can connect it with Foursquare and Instagram (with more networks to come soon). Cloak then plots where your Foursquare and Instagram contacts are, according to their most recent check-ins. You can casually check the map, or — for exes, chatty neighbors and other undesirables — “flag” them to receive an alert when they pass within a preset radius.

via Meet Cloak, the ‘antisocial’ network that helps you avoid people.

You bet your dollar I will be downloading this; I have to try it. I’m not much into the social interaction thing, at all. So, it’s going on the phone. Finally! An app I can actually use! 😀

Update: I just checked the website for the app. It’s only available for apple devices on the iTunes store. Ugh. 🙁 Not fair. Hopefully, they make a version for Android soon.