When I think of privacy and alternatives to Facebook, GOOGLE is the last entity I would ever consider! They, in their own way, are just as guilty of harvesting personal info. Look at the BUZZ calamity.
I see you guys have complained about Facebook's privacy a lot, but you haven't told your listeners that there are alternative full-featured social network sites such as Google's Orkut.
Orkut has gone through a redesign based on Usability Tests and user feedback and it has become much easier to use than Facebook. It's much faster than any other SNS and it has much easier privacy settings. You can set the privacy level to "Only Friends", "Friends of Friends" and "All" exactly at the place where you add the information to the site and there are only 6 items in the site we can set the privacy of.
BTW, Molly will love to know that Orkut has most games Facebook has.

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