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-    *********
-    Friendika
-    *********
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+    * Friendika *
+    *************
 
     Distributed Social Network
 
@@ -40,10 +40,8 @@ interaction you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, *and* was open source,
 *and* where your privacy is always under your control?
  
     And what if this social network could scale to encompass the entire 
-internet, and *not* require a central organisation to provide servers (in 
-exchange for selling your private information - and everything else they can
-find out about you from logging all of your online activities and
-conversations)?
+internet, and *not* require a central organisation to provide servers? 
+(In exchange for peddling your private information behind your back.)
 
     Look no further. 
 
@@ -79,15 +77,7 @@ rarely are (straight-forward and simple). Whether you're communicating with
 drinking buddies or potential employers, you can rest assured that each is
 only able to see the side of you that you wish to present. If you send a
 private message to your aunt Mary, we will encrypt it with military grade
-encryption. We also won't share it with advertisers.  
-
-    Other distributed social network projects talk about privacy and offering
-a feature-rich social networking alternative, but all they can deliver is 
-vapour and vague promises. You've probably heard about the four guys in New
-York and their "Facebook killer". What a disaster that was. Eventually they
-may get it right and release something that actually works (and lets you do 
-something besides drag your friends into categories), but they may not.
-What are you going to use in the meantime?   
+encryption.
 
     Friendika delivers. We've got an incredibly rich social communications 
 interface you can make use of *right now*.
@@ -99,6 +89,13 @@ But we're creating something completely different.
 
     Something better.
 
+    Start with richer communications. Adorn your text, colour it. We've got a 
+text counter in case you're sending across to one of the primitive social 
+networks, but we don't think you should have to squeeze your communications
+into some arbitrary limit. Free yourself from thinking how to squeeze your 
+message into 140 or 420 characters, or sending messages in some strange 
+short-hand code. Even edit your text after you send it. It's OK.
+
     A single instance of Friendika can easily support hundreds of (and up to
 several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. You could even run
 Friendika on an old PC in your closet or garage. Each of these people are able
@@ -106,8 +103,8 @@ to connect with potentially hundreds or thousands of friends and associates
 on any other supported network anywhere in the world and share photos, links,
 status updates, etc. 
 
-    But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... That's OK too. 
-Friendika may also be closed off from the global community and used to support
+    But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... and that's OK 
+too. Friendika may be closed off from the global community and used to support
 social networking amongst corporate, educational, religious, and other private
 communities. This makes it an excellent choice for the social networking needs
 of young teenagers and especially k-12 organisations.