On Facebook, Allan Karl has 642 friends, 128 likes and 405 photos. But you wouldn’t know this if you searched for him by his actual name: Allan Smith.
Smith, a sophomore at Ohio University, switched to using his first and middle name on Facebook to carve out more privacy and make himself harder to find, especially for employers.
As more people like Smith seek more privacy, two Ohio State students have created a new social media site that revolves around providing it.
Dustin Studer, a junior in biomedical engineering, and Suprasanna Mishra, a junior in neuroscience, launched
Capstory.com on Oct. 1.
“We wanted to give complete control to the user so they can do whatever they want with their content and not have to worry,” Studer said.
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