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A new app claims to be the social network for the anti-social.

While most social media apps focus on helping you get closer to your friends, Cloak uses location data to make it easier for you to avoid your connections.

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The app pulls in location information from your social networks to show you where friends are so you can avoid accidentally bumping into people you don't want to see.

Connect Cloak to Foursquare and Instagram and the app brings up a map displaying your location and the locations of friends who have checked in nearby. If there's someone you want to avoid, select flag and the app will alert you when that person gets within a certain radius of you. A half mile is the default radius but you can set it to be as small as one block or as big as two miles.

For now, the app only pulls in location data from Foursquare and Instagram, so it's only useful if you follow the people you're trying to avoid on these two networks. The developers say they are working on connecting the app to more services in the future, though Twitter will likely not be among them.

The location data just isn't there, the company explains in their iTunes description. Most users have it turned off and even when it's on, it's quite vague.

The app is the project of programmer Brian Moore and Buzzfeed's former creative director Chris Baker. This is not Baker's first venture into software for the anti-socially-inclined. Baker left Buzzfeed in the fall to work on Rather, a Chrome extension that helps users block unwanted content in their Facebook feeds.

In an email to the Washington Post, Baker said: I think we've seen the crest of the big social network ... I think anti-social stuff is on the rise. You'll be seeing more and more of these types of projects.

This article originally appeared onMashable .

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With political parties using social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook in a big way for campaigning in Lok Sabha polls, Election Commission has issued detailed guidelines for political advertisements on such platforms that include obtaining certification for contents before putting them in public domain.

The Election Commission has also asked the social networking sites to maintain expenditure incurred by the political parties and individual candidates on advertisements so that they can be produced to the Commission when requested for.

In separate letters to major social networking sites yesterday, the Commission directed them to ensure that contents displayed by them during the electoral process was not "unlawful or malicious or violative of the model code of conduct".

It said the guidelines to the social media have been issued as part of the Commission's broad efforts to address the problem of paid news.

All major political parties have been using the social networking sites as part of their campaign strategy, particularly to woo the young voters. In the recent Delhi Assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party had used Facebook and Twitter in a big way to draw support for itself.

Director in Election Commission Dhirender Ojha said the directive of the Commission will be applicable to a range of internet-based social media which include Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia.

"We have told the social networking sites to take pre-certification from Media Certification and Monitoring Committees at district and State levels," he said while addressing a workshop on media's role in the electoral process.

He said it was part of Commission's efforts to address the problem of paid news.

The commission has already issued directions for providing details of social media accounts by the candidates while filing their nominations.

Ojha said it was mandatory for political parties and individual candidates to keep details of expenditure incurred on advertisement in social media. He said the expenses will be accounted for in the total expenditure incurred by the candidates.

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The Election Commission has directed content managers of social networking sites to make sure that candidates do not post anything violative of the model code of conduct.

In a communication to major social networking sites, the EC has issued detailed guidelines for political advertisements that include obtaining certification for contents before putting them in the public domain.

The guidelines will be applicable to a range of Internet-based social media including Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia.

Expenditure

The networking sites have been asked to maintain expenditure incurred by political parties and individual candidates, and ensure that the content displayed by them is not unlawful or malicious or violative of the model code.

The guidelines have been issued as part of the ECs efforts to address the problem of paid news.

We have told the social networking sites to take pre-certification from Media Certification and Monitoring Committees at the district and State levels, EC Director Dhirender Ojha said, addressing a workshop on the medias role in the electoral process.

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