Diasproa, an idea from four New York University students disagree that online social sites, mainly Facebook, shouldn’t be allowed to have access and or own all the personal data that flows through their social networks. What Diaspora is aiming to do is to have no middle men like facebook, twitter, Google have access to your private data except you and your friends.

Diaspora aims to be a distributed network, where totally separate computers connect to each other directly. This sounds like peer to peer file sharing network. They even call each computer a “seed” as they do in the bit torrent world. Data sharing with only people you want to share with is the goal of Diasproa.

Set up might be the major drawback as many non- technical users might find it a little too difficult to comprehend as with bit torrents. But if they can figure that out , they just might have something. Until then keep up on your privacy settings on Facebook.

You can learn more about Diaspora @ http://joindiaspora.com/