On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Oksana Goertzen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ogoertzen@gmail.com">ogoertzen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
So what are the alternatives to Facebook? <br>What do other people like? Anyone using an open source alternative?<br></blockquote><div><br>First, here is the link to their site <a href="http://www.quitfacebookday.com/">http://www.quitfacebookday.com/</a><br>
<br>They mention alternatives, but not the ones that I list later.<br><br></div></div>The problem is not an open source alternative or closed source. <br>The issue is that they have your data, and not that they close their<br>
source. And they accumulate the data and use it in ways that are<br>"too creative" to be comfort.<br><br>The problem is where else are all your "friends" are?<br><br>Facebook has been the only way that I reconnected with people from <br>
grade school (that is quite a few decades ago). So, it has the critical<br>mass that keeps it going.<br><br>Since you asked about alternatives, I will mention them here<br><br>First, there is the Salmon Protocol which makes for unifying conversation<br>
on various sites/services. <br><a href="http://www.salmon-protocol.org/">http://www.salmon-protocol.org/</a><br>This means applications that support that protocol will be able to sync<br>with each other no matter what these applications are.<br>
<br>Then you have Appleseed, which is an Open Source Facebook wannabe<br><a href="http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/">http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/</a><br><br>And then there is Diaspora, which is vaporware at this stage, though<br>
people gave them money to work on it.<br><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr</a><br>
<a href="http://www.joindiaspora.com/">http://www.joindiaspora.com/</a><br><br>Again, the issue is that of privacy, not of closed source, and that they<br>have critical mass.<br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
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