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Facebook (facebook.com) is a privately owned website, USA based, hosting a large social network. Social activists have expressed concerns about the use of corporate-backed tools for organizing, due to the fact that you can't know how your private data is handled. Alternative managed by activists like we.riseup.net.
Facebook has been criticized for its closed and commercial nature, its frequent privacy issues and was sometimes accused of censorship practices.[1][2]
"With a court order, Facebook will release even more information about you. They've even developed an application called "Neoprint" to deliver a handy packet of information about subscribers, including profile contact information, mini-feed, friend listing (with friend's Facebook ID), group listing and messages."
Censorship of file-sharing links in private communications has been reported [3]
Closedness
- Facebook has not adopted OpenID, despite providing an equivalent custom service.
- Facebook chat has adopted the open standard XMPP, but is not federated with the open Jabber network.
- Facebook profiles only allow you to share one external link. This limitation is also present in Twitter.
