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The innate problem is that any "social" site will generally ask for the same info Facebook will for the same reasons. There's a wikipedia page listing 100+ social networking sites from all around the world, but the thing is they're all more or less worse than facebook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
I don't mind the invasiveness because I feel like that's really kind of a realm of illusion as well. Yeah, Facebook is stalking me, hell it's using my own posts to stalk me. But so's everything and everyone else in this game. Until marketing becomes an unviable money maker, It's really one of the biggest things keeping our economy going.
I'm not even that bothered by things like Facebook being able to tell if you're gay or not.
http://americablog.com/2013/03/facebook-might-know-youre-gay-before-you-do.html
Because that's predictive software. And we're going to see a lot more of it in the future. The machine doesn't necessarily know what it brings, it just puts 2 and 2 together and gets 4. Most of us leave a digital wake a mile wide in terms of what we look at and where we go online. The data is just so obfuscated that in many cases it would need the dedicated effort of a human mind to really track what we, individually, do.
Which of course, was basically proven back in the 90s when we had a wide enough userbase that networks weren't extended regional cliques, and everybody didn't know everybody. Something like a visible email on a forum profile is enough. A lot of people aren't very bright when it comes to hiding stuff like that. Cause too big a tantrum with a few sockpuppets in forum with savvy mods, and you got the proto-version of dox'd. Every dirty little horrible thing you did laid bare for a bunch life failures who probably insulted your artwork to laugh at.
And the thing is, you control what you put on those networks. They are very public networks. Whether they are run by an unscrupulous company full of lazy assholes is almost a given. That's essentially the problem with all public discourse over the wire. We bypass it here because we're niche enough and Anonex abandons the site for months at a time leaves well enough alone and with the mods.
I do get the paranoia, especially about things like having your fb scoured by background checkers for a job. I think some of that's more a problem of culture; I don't want to be rejected from gainful employment for having a picture of myself drunk on fb when more than likely everybody, including the fucking fact checker, was drunk that weekend.
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