Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook
May 14th, 2010 | by Neil Barton | Posted in technology | Comments Off
I left facebook a few months back. I haven’t missed it. I am not the only one. As more privacy concerns arise every day, I came across this article from the NY Times, here are some highlights:
How angry is the world at Facebook for devouring every morsel of personal information we are willing to feed it?
A few months back, four geeky college students… decided to build a social network that wouldn’t force people to surrender their privacy to a big business. It would take three or four months to write the code, and they would need a few thousand dollars each to live on.
They gave themselves 39 days to raise $10,000, using an online site, Kickstarter, that helps creative people find support.
They announced their project on April 24. They reached their $10,000 goal in 12 days
