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Let's say you added friends on Facebook by entering their email addresses (or phone numbers, social security numbers, any unique identifiers). That list of ema

Let's say you added friends on Facebook by entering their email addresses (or phone numbers, social security numbers, any unique identifiers). That list of emails is certainly your property and you should be able to export it. It would also be usable with another service, spurring competition and so on. However, a lot of friend adding is searching by name and disambiguating by photos, or adding someone who is a friend of a friend. In these cases, what fields are in the contact list export?

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
> However, a lot of friend adding is searching by name and disambiguating by photos, or adding someone who is a friend of a friend. That is a very good point I didn't consider! The process of adding friends is heavily reliant on information other people have added to Facebook. I still find like the list of people I've added (names) is ultimately mine and should be exportable. Any information a friend added to their Facebook profile—pictures, addresses, etc—belongs to that person, not me, and should not be included in the export.