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Facebook allows users to easily export their data as a compressed archive. Why not have the third party app access exported archives and not Facebook servers?
by 3xblah 8y ago
Facebook allows users to easily export their data as a compressed archive.
Why not have the third party app access exported archives and not Facebook servers?
This way users could at least be made aware of the features they are missing. Ones that might be better for users but not necessarily better for Facebook.
For example, organising and searching through past data could be made much more efficient, reducing the time users need to spend on the Facebook website/app.
- tivert 8y ago> Facebook allows users to easily export their data as a compressed archive. > Why not have the third party app access exported archives and not Facebook servers? For the most part, those archives only contain data that the user has personally uploaded. They contain little to no data about their friends or their friends activity. A third party app that only works with a user's archive will not be able to function as an adequate Facebook alternative.
- 3xblah 8y agoI was thinking that users would share relevant portions of these archives with their friends, etc. directly, without a middleman. They have already shared the content of the archive via Facebook. Nor was I thinking of a "Facebook alternative" (neither was the parent comment). What I was thinking is that one could demonstrate certain features in an app that one does not find one Facebook. Users would then become familiar with features that are possible but that they are not getting on Facebook.