Verso il fondo si citano social media decentralizzati come MediaGoblin, Identi.ca, Diaspora, ecc. juan carlos * How to Block the NSA From Your Friends List** * By April Glaser and Libby Reinish | Posted Monday, June 17, 2013, at 11:12 AM After recent revelations of NSA spying, it's difficult to trust large Internet corporations like Facebook to host our online social networks. Facebook is one of nine companies tied to PRISM----perhaps the largestgovernment surveillance effort <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data>in world history. Even before this story broke, many social media addicts hadlost trust in the company <http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/11/washington_post_pew_poll_...>. Maybe now they'll finally start thinking seriously about leaving the social network giant. Luckily, there are other options, ones that are less vulnerable to government spying and offer users more control over their personal data. But will mass migration from Facebook actually happen? According to aPew study <http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-Social-Media-And-Privacy/Summary-of-Findings.aspx>released weeks before news of PRISM broke, teenagers are disenchanted with Facebook. They're moving to other platforms, like Snapchat and (Facebook owned) Instagram, the study reports. This is the way a social network dies---people sign up for multiple platforms before gradually realizing that one has become vacant or uninteresting. Myspace, for instance, took years todrop off the map <http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/facebook-now-nearly-twice-the-size-of-myspa...>. By 2006 Myspace reached 100 million users, making it the most popular social network in the United States. But by 2008, Facebook had reached twice that number, less than two years after allowing anyone older than 13 to join the network. Benjamin Mako Hill, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, thinks Facebook's ability to connect people and bind them to the social network is overrated to begin with. "Facebook didn't exist, what, 10 years ago," he says, and in 10 years, he thinks, "a company called Facebook will exist, but will it occupy the same space in our culture? That's certainly not something I'm willing to take for granted." [...] Continua qui: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/17/identi_ca_diaspora_and_fr...