"Facebook is officially 'out,' as in uncool, amongst partners, parents and pundits all coming to the realization that Zuckerberg and his company are - simply put - not trustworthy," Calacanis wrote on his personal Web site.
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Earlier this month, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and 14 other privacy and consumer organizations filed a complaint against Facebook with the Federal Trade Commission, accusing the popular social network of "unfair and deceptive trade practices" and violating users' expectations of privacy and consumer protection laws.
In all reality, it's just a matter of having a better choice, until then, I'm not sure anything would drive away the facebook community. If (When) someone(s) will build the next thing, which is easy to use (and possibly migrate and/or interact with existing facebook users), people will use it. Myspace is a perfect example -- lots of people I know WERE there, now they are facebook. Perhaps, myspace should use this opportunity to rebuild...and where is Google in all of this? Orkut didn't seem to really take off in the U.S.
Facebook was fortunate in that it built a huge community of educated and engaged users (given that it started out primarily tied to .edu email accounts) before it was opened up to the world -- and in the process, sucker punched users.
..but then again, why would we trust our privacy to a 3rd party company?
more of my writings on facebook
here and privacy
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