Social networking privacy angst

So, we all know that Facebook is evil, and LiveJournal is fast heading towards becoming evil. Or incompetent indistinguishably from malice, anyway. I'm very much debating with myself whether I should be deleting my accounts.

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siderea believes in Diaspora as a Facebook killer, and I really, really hope she's right. But I have a hard time believing that a distributed, self-hosted system is going to be accessible enough to non-geeks. Or even enough better than Facebook for people to be willing to give up the networks they've already built up. Which is of course exactly why I'm still on Facebook however uncomfortable I feel about it.