If you’re fed up with Facebook, what alternatives have you got? Well I have chosen what I believe might satisfy your appetite for seeing what your Friends are up to! Although this may be only if the decide to abandon Ship with you!
1. Diaspora
Diaspora, an open-source, decentralized social networking project being developed by four New York University students, has been getting a ton of press this week as Facebook comes under fire for its user privacy issues. The idea behind the project is to replicate the Facebook user experience that’s proven so popular, but to run the Diaspora social network on users’ own personal Web servers — called “seeds” — instead of in the centralized fashion that allows Facebook and other large, proprietary social networking companies to claim ownership of users’ content and marketable data while running roughshod over their privacy concerns.
2. MySpace
This is Personally one of my favorite Social Network’s. In 2006 Myspace was King of the Social Network Scene with over 100Million Users! MySpace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors. On March 10, 2010, MySpace has undergone a revamp and some new features added like recommendation engine for new users which suggests games, music and videos based on their previous search habits. The website will also release several mobile micro applications for MySpace gamers besides sending them games alerts. The site may release 20 to 30 micro apps and go mobile next year.
3. Twitter
Twitter describes itself as a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets them share and discover what’s happening now.
Twitter asks the question“what’s happening” and makes the answer spread across the globe to millions, immediately.
Twitter is built on Open Source Software and one of its core beliefs is that with the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.
4. Orkut
Google‘s operated social networking Web site has more than 100 million active users worldwide and is especially popular in Brazil and India. It’s free to join and although it has not had the same level of privacy issues to the level Facebook has, it has suffered period bouts of spam, fake profiles and use by various hate groups.
5. LinkedIn
LinkedIn has over 65 million members in over 200 countries. It is more of a Career focused Social Network in the sense that it focuses on you more as a Professional. Its a place where you can build relationships with likeminded professionals.
Of course theres many more and if you want to see a definitive list head on over toWikepedia.
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