Screw Facebook! Anyone up to head back to MySpace?

[TreasonousBastard]

Yeah, yeah, I know who owns it now, but it ain't Facebook.

[SoCalNative]

1. Not owned by Murdoch any longer

but owned by Time, Inc. (soon to be AT&T).

[TheBlackAdder]

3. EFF states that AT&T and Microsoft are the chief data collectors for the NSA.

[Binkie The Clown]

2. Wherever the people go, the data sharks will follow.

The only safe way to avoid having your data mined is to stay off social media.

[Hortensis]

4. Doesn't that depend on the site? For sure

someone is going to fill this market by providing a product with more security.

I got mostly shrugs from our kids about dumping FB because lots of their friends and relatives post pictures through FB (the reason my account isn't already canceled), but also because there's no really good place yet, known to be secure, to go to.

That'll change.

[eShirl]

5. remember when people used to make their own websites

instead of facebook pages

[LeftInTX]

6. I had one! Or two or three...

[Binkie The Clown]

7. I have had my own personal website for friends and family since the WWW became a thing.

And no, I won't provide a link to it because it's for family and a very few close friends. We share pix of kids and grandkids and family events. Nobody outside the family would be the least bit interested in it.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. I did, and had blogs, too.

[Dave Starsky]

9. I had a Geocities page.

It was actually pretty cool, and I was able to interact with a lot of my friends with it.

Of course, it took some effort and know-how to produce and maintain. Facebook requires neither, which is why it's a vast wasteland of crap.

[brooklynite]

10. Screw Newspapers! Anyone up to head back to Town Criers?

The platform isn't the issue; it's the use and abuse of it.

[NurseJackie]

11. What's so great about your space?

[D_Master81]

12. MySpace is a wasteland

I went back a year ago to see if my profile was still active. Everything looked like time had stopped in 2009. It’s basically a music site now, I think Timberlake bought it at some point. But wouldn’t the same problems still exist there too?

[Brother Buzz]

13. SF Giants right fielder, Hunter Pence still uses MySpace and has an AOL email address

Hell, he's ready for a flood, too

[sarcasmo]

14. Didn't Timberlake buy My Space?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jun/30/myspace-internet