Do you think Diaspora is going to really challenge Facebook?

Facebook has no reason to change. Most people don’t know about privacy issues, and of those who know a minority care. The idea is to collect click-throughs to make a lot of money, and that is just what will happen.

@dpworkin I think the majority of people both know and care, they just don’t care enough to quit, especially if they are addicted. Like smoking – pretty much everyone knows it’s bad for you, but every day new people start smoking.

@papayalily You’ve got that right, at least for me – I know about the privacy issues, and when I think about the fact that I’m going to school for law enforcement it makes me a little nervous to think of some of the things I’ve posted on facebook, but I love it too much to quit. My plan is to just delete my facebook and all it’s content when I’m applying for the job.

But no, I don’t think websites like Diaspora will give Facebook a run for it’s money. Granted, there was a major shift from Myspace to Facebook, but at the time the two websites were completely different (since I’ve quit Myspace, I’ve noticed that they now have a “live feed” on the home page as well). Unless a huge number of users completely abandon Facebook for Diaspora and convince their friends to move with them, I don’t think Diaspora will get off the ground.

But I don’t see that happening – even if three of my best friends deleted their facebooks and moved to Diaspora, I’d still have 202 friends on facebook to keep me there.

For me, I’m quite content sending letters, lotsa email, text to my closest and phone calls now and then. With fluther, that’s all I need. The rest of the time I spend doing actual, real things. I think facebook is a bad thing.

Diaspora needs to be live at some point, too. As of now it’s way too early to even contemplate it.

lol, I totally went to high school with one of the founders! hahahahah

I’d never heard of Diaspora before now, so as of right now I don’t think Facebook has to worry about any competition.

For it to be a proper social site, there would have to be some people that I know in real life to be social with. And I don’t see that happening right now. But I really like the idea. Facebook’s privacy policies are a load of BS.