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I think privacy is actually a good reason for strong data portability. If users can easily leave your service for another, you have a strong incentive not to vi
by joebadmo 16y ago
I think privacy is actually a good reason for strong data portability. If users can easily leave your service for another, you have a strong incentive not to violate their privacy expectations. To extrapolate that point out: strong data portability and interoperability encourage a competitive environment.
I think you're conflating "closed" with "private." An open social networking environment can still harbor private (I would argue more private) sharing contexts.
- farlington 16y agoYou're absolutely right, I did conflate 'closed' and 'private'. But what about my second point? You can download your facebook data. Or is it not 'strongly portable' enough, in your opinion?
- joebadmo 16y agoFrom what I understand, it's not an easy process and you can't download important stuff, like your social graph (I think you only get plaintext names, not email addresses, etc.)
- farlington 16y agoIt's a one click download. OK, actually two clicks, but it's a very clean, unconfusing process. https://www.facebook.com/download/ https://www.facebook.com/download/ Not to mention the graph api. They're very good about giving you all the information you as a user might want (photos, links, messages, wall posts) What it doesn't give you is the kind of data that a competitor might want.
- farlington 16y agoYou should try it. http://www.facebook.com/download http://www.facebook.com/download. It's basically a two-click process. It gives you most of the data you'd be interested in as a user (photos, videos, messages, wall posts). Not so much the data that Google might want, like a easily importable graph. But for everyone else, it's really useful.