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Although Diaspora was expected to be launched on 15 September it seems that 24 November was the lucky number for its developers. What it is called “the open alternative to Facebook” has just hit the online environment and comes with a new approach related to users’ privacy, as a response to Facebook’s issues regarding this subject.

Created earlier this year by four US students, Diaspora is now opened for public, however only invited people can join it, at least for now. Should it be a threat for the most popular social networking – Facebook? Its developers say they are adding new features in short time and they are able to identify and fix and problem that might occur, thus taking care of it really fast.

Diaspora has been created with over $200,000 investment from funds raising and it came as a response to the users’ privacy issues found earlier this year on Facebook. Basically, this social network will allow users to control the information shared through social networks thus focusing on promoting their service through the privacy setting features.

A threat or not, Diaspora has had some security problems in September when they made their code publicly available, while it contained lots of security holes that could be easily taken advantage of ; HTML injection in comments vulnerability was one of those. However the developers said the feedback they got from making the code available was great and they could easily managed to secure the website and learn from their mistakes.

In conclusion, Diaspora puts lots of emphasis on the fact it protects better its users’ privacy with a concise reference to Facebook’s problems : “Diaspora doesn’t expose your information to advertisers, or to games you play, or to other websites you visit”. It must take some time though to really demonstrate their abilities of keeping users’ privacy information more secured than any other social networking available right now.