Fellow cat owners: ever caught your feline stealing jealous glances at your laptop? Wonder why they keep walking all over your keyboard?
Turns out they're not trying to catch your attention or steal your lap heat. They just want you to get off Facebook so they can have their turn.
OK, not really -- but the world's smartest pets are long overdue for their own social network. And now, thanks to a couple of developers in Malaysia, they just may have found one worthy of them.
The site in question is Catmoji, the brainchild of Matthew Phiong and Koekoe Loo Wan Koe. "We want to be Facebook for cats," the Penang-based programmers told Betabeat.
Facebook isn't the first social network you'll think of when you see the design, however. Check it out:
Pinterest, anyone?
Then again, a picture and video-based social network makes a lot of sense when cats are your subject. None of that pesky text that dogs (so to speak) sites such as Catster or United Cats. Given the international appeal of cats -- and the rather shaky English of Catmoji's founders -- that's probably for the best. The site does offer the option to tag and filter cat pics according to their emotion (hence the name).
Catmoji only launched on Christmas Eve, so it doesn't have anything in the way of impressive user numbers just yet. But given its founders' obvious passion for the topic, we'll be keeping one beady kitty eye on its growth.
And if you're thinking you've already seen a parody video along the lines of a feline social network, you might be thinking of this:
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