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June 17th, 2013 
Peter Nolan 
Creator Scott Garner tests his app in a video.
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Video screenshot by Nic Healey/CNET Australia)
Like most social media, Foursquare is designed to connect people, but what if you feel like being alone?
Web app Hell is Other People takes friends’ check-in data from your Foursquare account and calculates what the creator calls “optimally distanced locations” to make sure you don’t bump into any of them.
Scott Garner, designer of the app named after Sartre’s famous “hell is other people” quote from “No Exit,” made a video in which he tests the effectiveness of these safe zones. You can watch it below.
Of course, the success rate depends on just how dedicated you and your friends are to Foursquare. You might have more success calling in sick, closing the blinds, and pretending not to be home.
But Hell is Other People, spotted by The Verge, was designed more as an art project than a functional app, and in those terms it works just fine.
(Source: CNET Australia)
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