using this as an opportunity to promote new platforms one of them is called the open book challenge it's launched by tech investor jason calacanis he's offering seven teams one hundred thousand dollars to invent a better face but we don't really know what that is there are alternatives none of them are really popular we have to keep in mind that google plus tried and failed my space tried to relaunch and it failed facebook really just dominates david we heard one of our users earlier saying listen this is not about deleting facebook at about better regulation so what should governments be doing what can governments do well the timing of the scandal is incredibly appropriate because in just over two months time there's going to be a major privacy reform across europe called the general data protection regulation the g.d.p. and it's got a lot of companies scared because they know that it's going to really limit what they can do with people's day so without getting their consent and it really on says a lot of the questions that have been raised by this particular scandal which walking