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> All social networks should be required to enable social graph portability — the ability to export your lists of friends from one network to another. Again Ins
by shubhamjain 9y ago
> All social networks should be required to enable social graph portability — the ability to export your lists of friends from one network to another. Again Instagram is the perfect example: the one-time photo-filtering app launched its network off the back of Twitter by enabling the wholesale import of your Twitter social graph.
This reminds me how importing your email contacts was major component for Facebook—or any social network at that time, for that matter—to grow its network. It made sense then since all your communication (weather with friends or family) happened over email; email was your social graph. It's scary how Facebook now holds the key to every (close) connection you might have with Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.
- WillPostForFood 9y agoI think people forget or weren't around when Facebook was aggressively importing not just email, but anything with a contact list (like AOL IM), then would spam the entire list. They got away with stuff that wouldn't fly today.
- jraby3 9y agoMessenger still pulls crap like that.
- isolli 9y agoLinkedin is the worst, in my experience. I was repeatedly shocked to find people in my suggested contacts list that should never have been there.
- TremendousJudge 9y ago>They got away with stuff that wouldn't fly today Linkedin manages to be even worse than facebook in that regard, even today
- user5994461 9y agoThe facebook app is gathering all contacts on your phone for many years, they didn't wait for whatsapp.
- maccard 9y agoNot on iOS they weren’t.
- cabalamat 9y ago> All social networks should be required to enable social graph portability Not just that, they should be required to export all public data/posts in a neural interchange format, so that othwer apps/companies can buitl on nthier data.
- Legogris 9y agoThis is one part of GDPR: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-reform/overview-of-the-gdpr/individuals-rights/the-right-to-data-portability/ https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-reform/...
- cabalamat 9y agoNo. This only give me access to my data. I'm looking for the ability to re-publish all public data on a site. So, with this ability i could e.g. build a twitter clone and populate it with data from twitter.
- GhostVII 9y agoFacebook already has a pretty easy to use API that gives you access to the major user facing data. So I don't see what the problem is.
- cabalamat 9y agoI wasn't aware of that. So I could write a website that grabs all facebook's users' public updates and put it on my site? (I suspect the answer to this is No)