Diaspora – Anti Facebook Project
Facebook is the most preferred social networking website about to cross the mark of 500 million users but the recent privacy issues are prompting many concerned users to leave it. Almost on all social media sites a user is supposed to submit some private information about himself.
There is no control on use of this information today and in coming future. People are searching on internet the ways in which they can delete their facebook account. 16 to 17 million links are available on Google if you search “how do I delete my Facebook account?” Clearly proving no one can play with a user’s privacy.
One mathematician and three computer science students Maxwell Salzberg, Daniel Grippi, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy from NYU (New York University) posses an idea which will have all features of popular social networking sites, keeping the control of user’s personal information with him. Named as Diaspora, it is proposed to be launched in September 2010.
In developers’ own words:
“We are 140-character ideas. We are the pictures of your cat. We are blog posts about the economy. We are the collective knowledge that is Wikipedia. The internet is a canvas – of which, we paint broad and fine strokes of our lives with. It is a forward extension of our physical lives; a meta-self comprised of ones and zeros. We are all that is digital: If we weren’t, the internet wouldn’t either.”
In short whatever you can do on various sites under various names, can be done here under a single name.
The main feature of keeping personal information personal has dubbed Diaspora as Anti Facebook Project. This is still under construction and project cost was estimated to be 10,000 $. Developers started a fund raising campaign, actual result exceeded far from their expectations. Till date 798 people have contributed $24,950 and counting through Kickstarter.
It is an evidence of normal human psychology that we love to experiment under controlled environment. Safety of our own and our beloved ones come prior to all other promised benefits.
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