This sort of thing should be more of a motivation to move away from platforms like facebook than the privacy issues. Imagine giving a company the ability to cut

This sort of thing should be more of a motivation to move away from platforms like facebook than the privacy issues. Imagine giving a company the ability to cut you off from your friends, delete entire records of conversations that you had with them, your photos and memories, random connections made which could have influenced your life in the future etc. All on a whim or the result of a glitch or mistake, but providing no means of recourse. It needs to be much easier for people to store and publish their own pictures, contact lists, dates, connections, life events etc so that it can't all just be taken away at a moment's notice.