I recently asked on Twitter….
Now i’m starting to hear about existing and proposed projects that offer allternatives to Facebook.
I’d like to know if their are others… let me know.
http://www.joindiaspora.com/
http://www.collegiatenation.com/
I’m not too interested in getting into anti-Facebook. I don’t really like the service myself and only use it to be in touch with friends who are not active anywhere else online. I manage my privacy and dont care much about what gets exposed…. i’m a twitter user and occasional blogger and mailing public list contributor so no time to hung up on privacy. But I DO like open & distributed systems more than a single company (or two) being the centralized controller of data and terms etc etc. So I support Status.net, WordPress and anything that at least has an option to self-host/multi-host nodes on the web. Its important for the simple sake of the future web…. not to make a billion people happier. Because most will always be happy with FB or the next big MainStream social network that mostly sucks.
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