Hijexx wrote:
And that really sucks. I lost touch with a lot of people when I dropped off the social network grid. No one uses email anymore. I got people's email addresses before I left, but my experience has been no one checks email anymore.

I think this is an important point.

Information doesn't want to be free. We lost.

Actually I think it does, its just not the information we were thinking. Your information wants to be free. My information is covered by several international copyrights. The difference is the same as ever - corporate lobbyists get policy results and voters don't.

MemeStreams would have ended up having to monetize the same way as facebook if it became popular. The only way to combat that is to charge user fees.

How much is your privacy worth?

Would you pay a monthly subscription fee to use a social networking site that disposed of logs and wasn't advertiser supported? Would anyone else?

Part of the problem is that the thing that makes these sites attractive is the people who use them. Free is a good way of attracting people, which attracts people.

RE: MemeStreams now has a NUP