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Digital data is more volatile then you think, unless actively archived a lot of it will just disappear when Facebook goes out of business. Look what happened wi

• int_19h 8y ago
  I suspect that a lot of Myspace content was scrapped, and is floating around in databases to this day. Storage is really, really cheap these days. Cheap enough that you can host Wikipedia and OpenStreetMaps in your garage if you wanted to. And this is before you even get to stuff like Amazon Glacier, for data that you don't know what to do with today, but which might be mineable tomorrow. I fully expect that any shred of personal information, down to comments, is going to be recorded somewhere. Not necessarily with public access, though, and almost certainly not to the public benefit.