Great read. Diaspora has the right idea. The danger of Facebook is that it is a monolith. If you can't see that Facebook is big brother, then your eyes are not

Great read. Diaspora has the right idea. The danger of Facebook is that it is a monolith. If you can't see that Facebook is big brother, then your eyes are not open. It is literally that. By decentralizing our social networks, making everything opt-in, and controlled by small, independent, groups of people, we can effectively mitigate the corruption that is inevitable with such a monolithic and opaque service like Facebook.