Couscous Global is an organization that addresses urgent social and societal topics in a confronting, yet, constructive manner through debate. Subjects that live among young people worldwide. Subjects that are their own and not the ones of journalists.

Couscous Global developed the LYPO application in cooperation with web development company Driebit; they will add it to several social networks later this week. LYPO stands for Love Your Perfect Opposite and it reverses a well known principle: it doesn’t bring users into contact with people that think the same but with people that think differently. After all, you learn the most about yourself and the world around you by going into debate with your opponent/opposite.

Friends on social networks mostly are people that think the same and live the same. You can find these people through the tags that are attached to your profile. Couscous Global did the opposite with LYPO by developing an anti-tag system. It’s a technological translation of the famous quote: “I wholeheartedly disagree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it with my heart and soul.”

Maartje Nevejan of Couscous Global about LYPO and MySpace banning the application: “The motions on www.lypo.org are confronting, of course, but you wouldn’t get a good debate if they weren’t. There is this reign of political correctness on social networks worldwide and we want to bring this up for discussion. We’re bored on the Internet when it comes to public debate. Isn’t it much more exciting to have a discussion with someone that doesn’t agree with you? This bann by MySpace is incomprehensible. We don’t want to spread hate or discriminate, we want opposites to change ideas.”

Sites: www.lypo.org, www.couscousglobal.com, www.driebit.nl

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