Let’s abandon all of these facebook, myspace,flickr, picasa, creepster(?) Google+ sites! Those sites that are set up as “free”, so that they can just get you to sell yourself off. You know, the same way that broadcast television used to be free. Ever wonder why industries that give away their products for free could make so much money?
Anyway, I digress…
Ditch all those sites! Then have everyone who is interested in such things to set up their own blogs and photo libraries (not at evil sites like Blogger, but by paying for their hosting [or just hosting it themselves]) and then, if they want to keep up with what their friends are doing, subscribe to rss feeds for those blogs and libraries.
Sure, you would miss all the centralizing of your miscellaneous internet data, the centralized games and the advertisements, and it would be harder to let everyone know how many fiends you have and you would need to actually make some attempt to see what your friends had to say… But I like the idea.
All we would need to do next is move to a distributed internet that didn’t rely on the telecom lines, the government or the evil and poisonous wi-fi, one where each person could host their own data on their own computers and communicate through a grassroots collection of Ethernet cables strewn from house to house. Hmm… Maybe that is a topic for a later day…
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