Creating a Better Facebook

Fed up with Facebook's insatiable need to continue to expose your personal information to ever widening circles, four NYU students have decided to build an open source, distributed competitor to the social networking behemoth. They've raised a few grand, but I imagine it will be harder to convince your mom to log in.

Could happen

[ZekoMal]

That is, essentially, how Facebook began. The only thing that is different is greed. As college students, they might want to protect privacy. As fresh out of college students, they might look at their massive college debt and start weighing their options. Before you know it, they're paying lip service to advertisers at the expense of their user base. But hey, at least they'll have Ruralville!

Dirty Unix Joke

[Kozz]

Saw this article this morning. Don't overlook the "dirty Unix joke" on the blackboard. ;)

Right

[Chrisq]

They hit slashdot. They will become major in a few days. Don't worry. This one will actually succede!

Right, because everyone knows that Slashdot posters are social dynamos, followed by hundreds of fans who will willingly follow them onto the new network.

Re:While I admire their goals...

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, geeks. As a former geek turned millionaire I gotta tell you what the problem is.
Basically, you start your project all open source, full of good ideas and nice feelings.
Then it begins to grow, makes money, and then you are introduced to bleached hair playboy ascending models and penthouse pornstars that cost thousand grand to sleep one night with you and rock your world, because they just want to sleep with the next billionaire and prove to the other bitches they are the most expensive pussy in earth.
So, then you need more and more money to keep paying for them and it becomes an addiction.
So, you sell your soul to the devil and that is how it ends, just like facebook...

Re:Dirty Unix Joke

[MathiasRav]

But... you can't fsck when the drive is mounted! That's all wrong!

Re:Dirty Unix Joke

[that IT girl]

Although, as a female ./er, I'd like to point out that "finger" seems to be missing. Unless it's before "touch" and therefore out of sight, but that seems out of order. ;)

Re:Social networks

[Anonymous Coward]

Then again, MySpace did have a userbase comparable to Facebook. And yet it seems to have gone from being the the place to be to "are you still on myspace?" in a very short space of time.

I think I know what to do: We need to get Rupert Murdoch to buy Facebook.

Great idea

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm totally making a facebook fan page for this so all my friends will know about it!

Wait...

Re:Social networks

[Joe Random]

But then the war comes to them anyways and the boy's mangled legs mean he's no help...?

But, the new warlord is better than the last...

But, this new peace removes the determination to really improve their lot in life...

But the warlord gives everyone a free frogurt.

But the forgurt is cursed.

But you get your choice of toppings.

But the toppings contain potassium benzoate.