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It’s something everyone dreads upon breaking up or having a falling out with a friend: the inevitable run-in. You’re out on the town and then BAM, a night can be ruined by a former friend’s face. Well, now you can circumvent all that heartache with a clever new web app that’s basically the anti- Foursquare : Avoidr. According to New York Magazine’s Daily Intel , Avoidr was created by San Francisco–based technologist Jesper Andersen after seeing a bunch of his friends go through breakups. Basically, the app works as a plugin for your Foursquare account (much like apps like Assisted Serendipity , but even more simple). You can label your Foursquare friends with a variety of colorful terms, and then choose to hit “Avoid.” Clicking on “Places to Avoid” will yield a list of venues at which your foes are currently present. Unfortunately, it appears as though this is only a web-based app. It would be much more useful if it e-mailed or pinged you alerts, like the aforementioned Assisted Serendipity. Check out what it looks like below. I added Mashable Editor-in-Chief Adam Ostrow to my Avoid list — which is totally a joke, everyone. I’m sitting three feet away from him. This isn’t the first app that’s acted as a kind of foil to social media — Please Rob Me functioned in a similar way, allowing one to scan a plethora of user checkins. And then there was Seppukoo , which allowed one to kill his Facebook profile. Still, Andersen isn’t against Foursquare per se — just the awkward situations social networks present (i.e. unfriending someone is kind of a slap in the face). So if you’ve just split with a tech-savvy beau, you might want to check out Avoidr, so as to avoid a run-in via checkin. image courtesy of iStockphoto , Zhenikeyev Reviews: Facebook , Foursquare , iStockphoto More About: App , avoidr , facebook , foursquare , humor , Mobile 2.0 , pop culture , software For more Tech coverage: Follow Mashable Tech on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Tech channel Download our free apps for iPhone and iPad

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New Foursquare App Helps You Avoid Foes and Exes