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Re:Ask HN: Facebook alternative - would you start one? by spitfire on Monday May 03, 2010 @04:39PM (#1316003)
Have you ever been in a relationship? Once trust is gone you can never get it back. No mater how hard you try.

Once Mark Zuckerberg loses people's trust - which it seems he is doing so now, he can never regain it.

Re:Ask HN: Facebook alternative - would you start one? by richardw on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @12:54AM (#1317115)
Agreed it's a huge risk, but FB users have been getting shafted for ages in terms of privacy, and have hardly blinked. Geeks and privacy-oriented people yes, but most just want to share pics, see what their friends are doing and play games. It's easier to tweak their privacy settings than move to a place where they can't as easily (or automatically) share pics, have to build up their friend network from scratch, and there aren't as many games.