I hate facebook.

[Babbler]

There is a problem with this though, in order to advertise your site surely this means paying into these corporations you disagree so strongly with? Sure, people may wish to turn away but in order for them to know about your network you are going to have to do some serious advertising and that means paying into sites such as Facebook. It's a nice idea but realitically probably won't catch on and if you do choose to pay a site such a Facebook for advertising space and your site dies away all you have done is strengthen your opposition.

A good point, but has been taken into consideration, I would target magazines and weblogs as opposed to facebook advertising, who would review the site. I am also sure lots of news sites would be interested in the web charity side of it, in the same way the ny times covered diaspora because they are different.

 

[mobc1990]

facebook is the best,my friends use it everytime,he like it like he likes sex~~

 

[ZeroNewBlood]

I fucking love facebook.

 

[blindkilla]

I get your standpoint, but its like saying you're going to create a search engine that doesn't have advertisements and thinking it will get big because of that.

Not a lot of people know about facebook privacy issues and out of those that do, majority don't really care. I personally, don't care. Everyone I know, doesn't care.

The only thing that you are going to have going for your site is "better privacy".

If people do join, then will join for a week, then leave and forget about it (exactly what I did with myspace back in the day).

Facebook owns the social networking market, the same way youtube owns the video site market, the same way google owns the search engine market.

 

[Solidddd]

facebook is the funnest site to browse

 

[lacuna]

No it doesn't. It would be shut down if it did..

He's right.

 

[Maleficent]

It controls over 500 million peoples information.

It sells your information to advertisers.

It is the big brother of the internet.

So I am going to create a solution, its going to be a charity, like the wikimedia foundation (who made wikipedia) and the mozilla foundation (who made firefox)

I have all the skills and ability to make it (I have a team of a few web developers and I have been doing this professionally for a few years now)

However, I know nothing about establishing a charity, anyone have any ideas?

Also, there's a competition I can win $50,000 from, but I need people to vote for my idea, so please:

http://pitch.co/entry/55283?sort=time&order=30379946&offset=0

Just a few minutes to do something charitable, please.

Thanks for reading, and please ask any questions and make any suggestions.

where is your evidence of these claims?

 

[Angelmax]

Precisely, they are trying to make money, which I understand, but they are also taking advantage. Which I do not like, so I wish to start something better, for the public good, not for anyone's pocket.

They're not taking advantage of anyone. They're using the information you happily provided to monetise their free service.

 

[Angelmax]

To be honest, Facebook is nothing in comparative terms to Google. I believe Google are currently being sued in the UK (and abroad too, probably) for illegally collecting the unencrypted information sent out from unsecured WI-FI networks in the UK as part of their street-view project (which in my opinion is also a massive invasion of privacy). Good luck though, I have voted for you on your link.

Again, I will say what I said about facebook. If you want your wireless information to be secure, secure it. Anyone can do what google did on an individual level, and actually do some harm with it. Maybe this is a warning for the idiots that still have unprotected public networks.

 

[Snipestar]

bro i think your getting kind of out of hand here. facebook doesnt hurt anyone. millions of people use facebook to talk to their friends.