Reminds me of the number of fake Palestinian facebook profiles Israeli’s have made to post anti-Semitic remarks against Jews, just to get people like us believing Palestinians are responsible for them.

• Apparently, since the launch “Ovarian Cancer Wrongly Diagnosed Casualties”… http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&gid=116089128406419 … published content didn’t appear in any search engine findings — in spite of the ticked “Allow” public listing check-box. Strangely enough privacy settings made available to me, didn’t consist of the more specific “Allow Indexing” check-box, nonetheless reference was made to such provision.

What was replaced recently anyway by the latest array of settings. Manifestly pointing to the permited public search listing and thus search engines indexing. However, no search engine detected so far “Ovarian Cancer Wrongly Diagnosed Casualties”!

Yet as one to think that nothing worse could possible happen, in fact I wasn’t even allowed to contribute in discussion within the canvassed topics on the facebook (on any issue at all). Likewise others I assume were unable to join the group began by me, or even to post their comments.

Courtesy of the parallel universes phenomenon, where ostracised being unable even to contact facebook admin, due to the absent email address. At times comments were made apropos “facebook customer service”, yet no email contact was ever provided.

Eventually, I came across the … privacy@facebook.com … yet in response to my complaint on the issue in question, merely having received some sort of robotic reply. While being directed to browse through the facebook help/info pages, to no avail to find resolution.

Undoubtedly faced by other targeted individuals among the reported 500 million facebook users. Warranting additional appeal on my part, sent to the discovered lately … info@facebook.com

Obviously in these circumstances, facebook admin intervention is vital to rectify such a persistent anomaly!

Incredibly, they seem to think that their poor image in the west is due to “Arab Propaganda.”

Speechless. When was the last time you saw anyone go on TV and say “Israel needs to negotiate in good faith,” who’s next sentence was not “I am retiring from politics” ?

Well, I can understand the mindset, after all the people who would one day become Israeli were treated horribly by the christians. Terribly. Brutally.

I’m not quite sure what the Palestinians had to do with that though.

ANYWAY:

Diaspora is a nice idea, but running to a different silo is not really the solution. Google has open API’s etc right now. We don’t all need to be in the same silo to do social stuff. We knew facebook would do this. I’m coming to the realization that FB is not just bad, but it looks bad _on me_.

Makes me look like I’m a damned fascist, being part of facebook. Enough. The solution is here _now_. When Diaspora is ready I’ll add it to my list of online presences, but what I want is decentralization. Federation. Example:

http://www.slideshare.net/mbleigh/interoperable-web-4778065

That’s what I’m talking about. Google can’t be trusted either of course, but these protocols are open, like HTTP, or TCP/IP. We can trust Google to dislike the walled garden idea… they want to index every single thing.

That’ll be a problem too, but Apple, M$ , Yahoo, and Facebook all are competing. As long as there is competiton, Google will have to be freedom friendly.

Summary: Don’t leave FB to go to _______. Just leave. The tools to find your friends exist now.