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Over the top? Sure, but the take-home message is that there's an alternative to Facebook and that is Diaspora. We should use it and invite others to as well. Y

• nemothekid 13y ago
  What is it about Diaspora that makes it a facebook-killer? I am not convinced that giving people the option of controlling their own data would convince them to switch? I think suggesting something like that is pretty ignorant of facebook's appeal and growth. If the argument is "people will switch because they will realize facebook is bad for them" then facebook becomes an industry behind a long line of other industries taking advantage of people, and on the grand scale of things, is probably one of the most harmless. Next, it seems to me for this approach critical mass, you may end up with a centralized diaspora pod, in which that user is hypothetically free to sell your data, which doesn't really fix the problem. At the end of the day if I need a tight, controlled, social network of only people I trust without the fear of my data being sold, I will use the social networks I've already been using, namely, email, phone, and in-person communication. IMO, Diaspora is pretty low on the list of what will bankrupt Zuckerberg. If Google can spend 100s of millions of dollars on a social network and not steal significant traction, diaspora needs a better killer feature than "you own your data." Lets face it, a large part of the facebook community (if not all of it) doesn't give a shit about their data.