It's a complicated issue. I am very privacy focused, the kind of person that doesn't do facebook, burns accounts on different forums regularly, etc, but I have

It's a complicated issue. I am very privacy focused, the kind of person that doesn't do facebook, burns accounts on different forums regularly, etc, but I have to admit I enjoyed the information I got out of twitter while not enjoying some of their recent changes. Since the spam calls and the phone link in though, I have already changed my twitter-name and lost all followers, and since then I pretty much stopped tweeting. Haven't logged in in at least a month now. The main problem with adoption of an alternative is that I was using it to keep up with the kinds of people that aren't necessarily going to move to an alternative until it reaches some sort of critical mass. My RSS feeds are already full enough without having to add a bunch of random single person blogs to keep up with, so I'm not sure to be honest. Twitter was my main compromise to stay more socially connected with a wider array of people and it's hard to let go of that. Despite my desire for good federated and open source social networking, it isn't quite there yet, and so for the time being the one social outlet alternative I see glimmers of hope in is WT.Social.