Like.

Street traffic on my way to work has gotten worse in the last few weeks. Sign of economic recovery, more people on the way to work perhaps?

According to California unemployment numbers, no, but maybe you've got a local boom going.

Well yeah, I didn't think he made the front page of CNN.
But it means that CNN is using data on who my "friends" are. I don't like that.

Yes, but despite turning all of that to "Friends Only" they still keep adding new Sh*t and making it public by default.

That's all I'm saying.

So is there a good Facebook alternative that doesn't suck quite so much?

the following presumes Facebook is not flat out lying about the feature

CNN is not seeing your data. CNN hosts some generic code that gets loaded by your browser on your local system, which then logs into Facebook and retrieves the pertinent data and displays it on the page. No personal data is sent to CNN's site.

This.

Right. I'm not disagreeing with you.

I went through my FB last night, changed all the new settings and purged groups, apps and anyone I didn't talk to, or whose feed I blocked because their postings/ramblings weren't something I want to read. If FB is going to start making things public I'm going to be a lot more careful of my associations on there. I use FB to keep up with friends in other states and countries first.

The article NA posted was very informative about the changes. They also changed the way applications can store and use your personal data.

An alternative to Facebook? That's like asking for an alternative to the United Nations. It simply is the mega-site of the moment.

Wait 5 years or so.

Penis

Try this site

Yes, but odds are none of your friends are using it. LiveJournal was a much better social networking tool for me because all that's generally important to me is contact with actual friends (as opposed to the entire universe of people I've ever met in my life), easy privacy, and easy long form writing.

It's still better for me in that regard. Of course, most of my friends on there have essentially abandoned it and moved to Facebook so all that goodness is mostly valueless now.