Just to be clear, you don't really mean forcing FB to have an API that would let anyone access any piece of data on FB do you? I mean, you're advocating for an

Just to be clear, you don't really mean forcing FB to have an API that would let anyone access any piece of data on FB do you? I mean, you're advocating for an open API to let people access maybe some public photos and such, but nothing private and no personally identifiable connection information right? Just as a matter of full disclosure, I believe anything sensitive should require explicit consent of the user for each bit of data you download from their profile. I don't believe in radically open data APIs on FB because there is a bit of an argument to be made that it's not FBs data, it's that user's data. If she doesn't want to give the world access to her messages to her lover there should certainly be no API level method that overrides her intentions there.