It seems nowadays facebook has no competition. Myspace is for 4 year olds, and the 40 year olds looking for the 4 year olds. Name another social network, if you don't count LinkedIn, nothing really comes to mind. However, the point of this post is about education, and I want to bring about some info on the competition. The terribly named 'Diaspora' is an open source (which is the strongest and weakest point for it) alternative. Open source will let the world crate the project, but open source will also make it incredibly open to hackz, which is never a good selling point for new users. However the gang managed to get 200K without a line of code, as even Mark Z donated to the project. The project has potential, but I would be impressed if it ever scraped 1% away from FB. The Catch-22 of social networking is that your friends have to already be on it to want to drive the switch, but nobody switches just to switch. The best quick blurb for Diaspora is found here as it hits on some good short points. I look forwarding to following the project (there views on FB's security issues are interesting), but I'm not ready to invest.
Anybody think I'm mistaken? Will you be making the switch?
~Docta Jones
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