Wired: Facebook is Big Brother - Let's Get Another Sibling

Look if you want to talk smack about people or share information without the whole world knowing – you’re just going to have to go meet for drinks the way our ancestors did.

Wired’s Ryan Singel wants an alternative to Facebook, one with real privacy options:

This spring Facebook took that even further. All the items you list as things you like must become public and linked to public profile pages. If you don’t want them linked and made public, then you don’t get them – though Facebook nicely hangs onto them in its database in order to let advertisers target you.

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