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by mrvir 5875 days ago
There are already several alternatives to facebook. For example Google's orkut.com Seems to be popular in India. All the developers I work with there use it rather than fb.
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gaius 5874 days ago
Does anyone else see the irony in proposing any Google service as a remedy to privacy issues? Remember Buzz.
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mrvir 5874 days ago
Hmm, at least they fixed it and apologized.

Orkut privacy settings fit in one tab. There are seven settings of which five have just two options. All in simple English. I don't need to read a blog article to understand them. What is your excuse, facebook?

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rick_2047 5875 days ago
The college students are steadily shifting towards facebook. Orkut was popular, but now the latest social networking media is Facebook.
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