A User-Controlled Social Network, could it be the alternative to Facebook?
I’ve been on Facebook for a little less than a year, ostensibly to track my teenaged daughter’s web presence but I’ve also discovered it’s fun to catch up with people I haven’t seen in (sadly) decades. In the past year I’ve ranged from excited, to interested, to resigned, and then bored with the banality of it all. Facebook has engendered increasing concern over their somewhat mercurial notions of user privacy. Interestingly, there appears to be an alternative on the horizon that is both Open Source and user-driven: Diaspora. (quoting from psfk.com, all rights reserved) The idea behind Diaspora* is to place existing networking technologies back into the hands of their users, to let them determine the types and styles of information they want to share. The New York Times reports: “In our real lives, we talk to each other,” he said. “We don’t need to hand our messages to a hub. What Facebook gives you as a user isn’t all that hard to do. All the little games, the little walls, the little
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