Facebook is the new Microsoft, but that may not be so bad.

&#62; Microsoft led the dawn of the personal computer and Facebook did the equivalent for the Web<p>Puhleeze, really. Facebook did not in any way shape or form lead the 'dawn of the web', at best they launched a very successful social network.<p>The web is <i>far</i> larger than facebook and always will be.

&#62;When one system dominates a particular domain and locks users in, problems seem to naturally ensue. Unfortunately for privacy advocates, an open Linux-like system will have much more trouble coexisting with Facebook.<p>There are countless open source packages in this domain and countless people that run them or use them. Just how I like it, decentralized.<p>For example: Reddit, Status.net, Buddypress/Wordpress, Pligg, Elgg