[MrMoenty]

I find it surprising that people have gotten so used to Facebook's abuse of data that they cannot even imagine things being different. You uploading data to Facebook to share with your friends does not mean that you give consent to have it stored, analyzed, and sold for profit.

If I upload data to Dropbox, my bank, or my health insurance, I don't expect them to be sold to advertisers either. So what if there was a social network that actually respected its users and didn't exploit their data for its own ulterior motives? Seems to be an inconceivable notion to some.

[BookmarkSaver]

It does seem inconceivable to me. How would it make money? Subscriptions? People can't even be bothered to pay for YouTube despite complaining endlessly about ads.

[squiggleblaz]

If a business can't make a profit in a socially conscious way, does the society benefit from its existences? If the only way you can make a social network is by selling members' lives to the highest bidder, maybe it's a product we should give a miss.