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Creating a Better Facebook

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the empty-is-not-god dept.

Fed up with Facebook's insatiable need to continue to expose your personal information to ever widening circles, four NYU students have decided to build an open source, distributed competitor to the social networking behemoth. They've raised a few grand, but I imagine it will be harder to convince your mom to log in.

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  1. Re:You Underestimate Your Mom by Chrisq · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You'd be surprised at how easy it is for your mom to "log in".

    I don't know about that...your mom expressed difficulty in getting my log in.

    "I hope it doesn't load too fast!" "Don't worry, baby."

    Don't worry, I've given her a magnifying glass. She should have better luck next time.

  2. Re:You Underestimate Your Mom by Pojut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    pfft. She would need a portable electron microscope. lol, you thought a magnifying glass would be eno-

    Oh wait. You were talking about me.

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  3. Re:Hmmmmmm........ by Sporkinum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sounds kinda funny, but it's really brown and runny.

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    "He's lost in a 'floyd hole"