Has anyone found a decent alternative to facebook?

[There and back again]

The decreasing privacy options are a problem with me, and while I know they just fixed the chat the fact that such a huge privacy hole was there in the first place makes me nervous. And now if a friend of mine 'likes' someone's status, that status shows up in my newsfeed even if I don't know them! Are there any social networking websites out there that don't have these privacy problems? I already know about linkedin, but I'm not looking for professional connections, and I know about twitter but microblogging isn't my thing. Thanks!