Cloak : 'anti-social' app

While most social networks aim to connect people :

one new service seeks to join the growing trend of doing the opposite and help you avoid them. 

Cloak uses public location data from other social networks, Foursquare and Instagram :

to determine the locations of others you know.

Users can choose to receive an alert when certain people are believed to be nearby  ;D

                                             
                                                     

Apps such as Snapchat - which deletes photographs and videos seconds after they have been viewed -

and Secret - which broadcasts messages anonymously -

are growing in popularity.....

WhatsApp, a private-messaging service recently bought by Facebook for $19bn :

indicates a shift back to conducting online conversations in private....

Cloak describes itself as a method to "avoid exes, co-workers, that guy who likes to stop and chat -

anyone you'd rather not run into"