Didn't work for me. The text of the article spilled off over the bottom of the white overlay panel, and then catastrophically collided with text underneath.
I agree with opt-in rather than opt-out. default into a safe/secure state is a basic principle of computer security. This is why Google Buzz's automatically adding followers was an awful idea, no matter how convenient it seems for users.
But the ISP controls data transmission, not storage. The ISP can't go sell your private information to someone, short of logging packets and extracting the data, which they have no authority to do. The point of distributing social networks is moving control into the hands of users rather than big business, and this makes sense because social activities off the net operate this way.
So make it compatible with various cloud providers. Better yet, start a nonprofit that transparently hosts the nodes on various cloud providers for a fee. When a provider starts misbehaving, transparently move those nodes to the others.
This way, the FB-alternative becomes a voice in the free market for respecting privacy.
That's basically what I'm saying too. The user needs to be in control, but this idea needs work. Simply going with the "node" route is giving ISP's too much control over the distribution, and hence, your data is still being "controlled" by a big corporation, just in another manner of speaking.
Why deactivate? I just went straight for deletion. The only problem is I have to wait 14 days and will probably accidentally log-in, reactivating my account, and have to start the countdown all over. But, I have a solution which involves editing my hosts file to redirect facebook.com to wikipedia.org.
I am impressed by this. All I have is some contacts in there from college etc. I am just keeping it there with minimal information in it and only visit it when a friend replies or messages. Otherwise, FB is pretty dead to me.
Yup, that's what I did. I had to double check all my clients that would log into it to make sure they didn't accidentally reactivate me. My wife checked my account was gone by trying to search for me.
I rely on coffee to keep me awake in early morning class, but during quizzes the jittery feeling does impair my ability to focus. However, it's great when I'm pounding out circuit diagrams and equations for EE!
