You're onto something interesting there. Another thing is the issue of giving our control of the data to facebook. Sure, I could occasionally download my own ar

You're onto something interesting there. Another thing is the issue of giving our control of the data to facebook. Sure, I could occasionally download my own archive of personal data and then it could be made available, but what typically happens when something like Facebook is shutting down for good? I assume all data would be deleted, unless something like one of those 'crusader' archive teams helped back up everything before it went down, however here it seems unlikely to happen because I doubt everyone's data could be given to an archive team for privacy reasons. It's an interesting problem.