Is Facebook the new Internet and how soon before Microsoft tries to buy it?

Re:Is Facebook the new Internet and how soon before Microsof... by loup-vaillant on Friday April 23, 2010 @04:51AM (#1287615)

Do you have any Idea of the current comprehensiveness of the data they have? Do I have to remind you how they use it? Facebook is already spying it's users (for censoring and commercial purposes), and Google do semantic analysis of your e-mail (to send you ads).

So I don't think we need a totalitarian regime for people to realize they might want a personal server. It just takes a little teaching. Personally, as soon as I have a provider which let me send mail on my own, I will buy one.

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Re:Is Facebook the new Internet and how soon before Microsof... by dasil003 on Saturday April 24, 2010 @02:04AM (#1290453)

Do you have any Idea of the current comprehensiveness of the data they have?

Yes.

It just takes a little teaching

Sadly, no.

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Re:Is Facebook the new Internet and how soon before Microsof... by loup-vaillant on Saturday April 24, 2010 @04:58PM (#1291555)

Well, I don't expect the "little teaching" to take less than 10 years. Yet what I think of is still relatively little: crude definitions of a computer, a program, a network, a browser and a web site, a search engine, a mail client and a mail server; and then a little feel about what computers can remember, with an emphasis on catastrophic scenarios, like with the browser history. I think it can be done in 10, maybe 20 hours per persons, assuming a competent teacher.

So: am I asking too much? Do we need even more than that (except a 30 buck, very easy to use, low power server)?

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