Date: 2010oct21 Product: Facebook Q. Facebook is not nice, what are some alternatives? http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/why-facebook-selling-you-out-and-wont-stop-322 A. One company (or website) should not control the world's social interactions. We need to transition to an open and distributed system. Some contenders are: Appleseed http://opensource.appleseedproject.org One Social Web (Based on XMPP which I like) http://www.onesocialweb.com Friend of a Friend http://www.foaf-project.org/ Diaspora (incomplete) http://www.joindiaspora.com/