All of these shiny social network websites are there for profit. They play nice to grow and then they will squeeze as much profit as they can from users. What

All of these shiny social network websites are there for profit. They play nice to grow and then they will squeeze as much profit as they can from users. What did you expect is going to happen? Why would you invest so much effort and emotion into growing a thing that you can be 100% sure will eventually try to consume you. If people want social media that does not feed on them, they have to start using p2p, decentralized social apps. Not like Diaspora (federated), but truly p2p, where each user contributes resources and there's no need to support scalability engineers maintaining state of art datacenters. http://twister.net.co/ http://twister.net.co/ https://zeronet.io/ https://zeronet.io/ https://www.ipfs.com/ https://www.ipfs.com/ http://www.synereo.com/ http://www.synereo.com/ http://maidsafe.net/ http://maidsafe.net/ Somewhere there or in something similiar is our holy grail: social networking by users for users.