The BuddyList Social Network is an Anonymous alternative to Facebook
July 25, 2015 by Dr. Letitia Wright
Filed under Crowd Funding, Front Page
The BuddyList Social Network is an anonymous alternative to Facebook that doesn’t sell your personal data to any one. BuddyList purports to be a community that doesn’t invade your privacy. BuddyList believes a social network should be about staying connected with your friends and family and having fun.
Quoted in “Wikipedia,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) supports BuddyList’s primary reason to jump away from Facebook by identifying two personal information aggregation techniques, called “connections” and “instant personalization,” which assure that anyone has access even to personal information that you may not have intended to be publicly available.
This is how it works, you create a “Connection” to most of the things that you click a “Like button” for, and Facebook will treat those relationships as public information. For example, if you “Like” a Page on Facebook, that then creates a public connection. If you Like a movie or restaurant on a non-Facebook website (and if that site is using Facebook’s OpenGraph system), that creates a public connection either to the applicable Page on Facebook or to the affiliated website.
Furthermore, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) notes that “For users that have not opted out, Instant Personalization is instant data leakage. As soon as you visit the sites in the pilot program (Yelp, Pandora, and Microsoft Docs) the sites can access your name, your picture, your gender, your current location, your list of friends, everything that Facebook classifies as public information. Even if you opt out of Instant Personalization, there’s still data leakage if your friends use these “Instant Personalization websites,” their activities can give away information about you, unless you block those applications individually.” This can be challenging to do.
Alternatively, at BuddyList you are able to post status messages, comment on just about everything, share your photo’s with your friends and family, play games, voice chat, create meme pics, blog, and so much more without the Facebook complications.
This is everything people expect from a social network, devoid of the commercial revenue programs. BuddyList does not sell any of your data to any one and they do not ask for much personal information nor care if you provide your real info. The intent is to have fun, involve your friends, and help the community grow.
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