I want OS vendors to wake up to this and give me a way of storing all the social-network'y stuff on a USB stick. When I'm using that social networks interface,

I want OS vendors to wake up to this and give me a way of storing all the social-network'y stuff on a USB stick. When I'm using that social networks interface, I put the USB stick in my computer - and my computer makes that data available to the network. Then, when I'm done using it, I turn off the interface, take the USB stick out and put it in storage somewhere. The only parts of the data that are available, are the bits I copied to the social network while I was using it, and it can have those bits while I'm away to do with as it pleases. I truly believe this is a function and responsibility of the local operating system, not the network. If only the OS vendors were paying attention to these issues instead of .. you know .. trying hard to be the next big social network.