alfreda89: (Cat Magic)
alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2010-05-12 04:04 pm

Finally -- Will we take back control of our personal information?

Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook

Four N.Y.U. students have decided people should be able to communicate
online without surrendering their privacy to a big business.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/nyregion/12about.html


Four nerds with a plan, fed up with Facebook and other groups spying on them for free, are writing what might be the next on-line networking system.

About time. I had just about decided that the teens today do not care anymore about privacy. Apparently, some of them do....

[identity profile] kristine-smith.livejournal.com 2010-05-13 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
I joined up and threw a little money their way. Not that they needed it. Folks have given them 6x the funding they thought they would need.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-05-13 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Good for them. Hope they make a great product, and get lots of street cred from it....