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How cool is this going to be for kids who grew up with Facebook and their kids and their kids' kids? I would love to have had insight to this level of detail f

by Yhippa 15y ago

How cool is this going to be for kids who grew up with Facebook and their kids and their kids' kids? I would love to have had insight to this level of detail for my ancestors.

acak 15y ago
Yep. And I wish there was a way to capture everything in my life in this Timeline-like fashion, without any extra effort from me. The one condition I have, though, is that I don't share it with anyone except someone I explicitly want to share it with. With everything being absolutely private and in my control to carry with me, by default, it would be killer. But this could well be opposite to Facebook's own direction. All-in-all, this is a rehash of the news feed with a few more controls. But the presentation is really nice.
- deleted 15y ago
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- tuhin 15y ago
  You will not be disappointed then by what we are cooking up.
  - losvedir 15y ago
    Cool, it looks interesting. I put my email on the list. I hate hate hate the "sign up your friends now! The more you sign up, the earlier you get in!" thing that shows up after I do. I don't know anything about your site, so I'm not going to go recommend it to anyone. I can see how the practice started; help spread the word. It just doesn't inspire confidence in me for a site where I'm going to end up posting all sorts of details of my life... Still, I'll be interested to check it out myself once I can.
- ojilles 15y ago
  This is iPhoto events, at least for me. I call it my wayback-machine :)
- asymmetric 15y ago
  Depends on who you mean by 'anyone except someone I explicitly want to share it with'. You will most likely be able to decide which fb users have access to it, but it will nevertheless be accessible (albeit in some condensed form) to advertisers.
- astrofinch 15y ago
  I always figure my life is archived thoroughly enough by the e-mails I send and receive for me to reconstruct any period in reasonably high resolution.
0x12 15y ago
Do you really believe that facebook will be around for 4 consecutive generations while retaining the data that was entered there?
- veyron 15y ago
  That's when they will start charging for access ... gateway to your family history
- jcitme 15y ago
  Yes. I consider myself a pretty average user for the last 5 or so years on Facebook. I don't have a lot of videos uploaded, but do have a lot of pictures. Facebook compresses those like crazy though, so maybe I have about a gigabyte of data. At any rate, given that their (as in the company) worth is estimated at more than 200x the people that have access to high speed internet in the world in dollars [1], I think they can probably keep my data, barring bit rot. note: This assumes that people with dial up don't use Facebook. Probably a valid assumption, or at least that the amount of data a dial up user supplies would not make storage an issue. Their user base is quickly reaching the point where it is limited to the human population of earth itself (This is an assumption, but they claim 800 active users, which while might be questionable {define "active"} if the true value is around there, they cannot achieve exponential growth). Most people probably only load text, or highly compressed jpg photos. If they can simply turn a profit with a business model that can support the current state, they should be fine. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_users http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...
- waterlesscloud 15y ago
  The question really is "Do you believe the data will be around for 4 consecutive generations, in some form?" And my answer is that yes, yes I do.
  - robryan 15y ago
    Especially as storage becomes cheaper and cheaper. I think if something were to happen to Facebook we would see a GeoCities like effort and everything you posted publicly would be backed up.
dorian-graph 15y ago
You could always follow the old-fashion method of keeping a journal. Maybe modernise it a bit and have a digital one with, wait for it, images and videos! I love keeping a journal and have done so for a fair few years quite diligently and before that, on and off. I have friends who have journals from their grandparents and some even further back.
RobPfeifer 15y ago
Would you trust FB with that data? I certainly would not. Nor would I trust ancestry.com.

by Yhippa 15y ago

How cool is this going to be for kids who grew up with Facebook and their kids and their kids' kids? I would love to have had insight to this level of detail for my ancestors.

acak 15y ago

Yep. And I wish there was a way to capture everything in my life in this Timeline-like fashion, without any extra effort from me. The one condition I have, though, is that I don't share it with anyone except someone I explicitly want to share it with. With everything being absolutely private and in my control to carry with me, by default, it would be killer. But this could well be opposite to Facebook's own direction. All-in-all, this is a rehash of the news feed with a few more controls. But the presentation is really nice.

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tuhin 15y ago
You will not be disappointed then by what we are cooking up.
- losvedir 15y ago
  Cool, it looks interesting. I put my email on the list. I hate hate hate the "sign up your friends now! The more you sign up, the earlier you get in!" thing that shows up after I do. I don't know anything about your site, so I'm not going to go recommend it to anyone. I can see how the practice started; help spread the word. It just doesn't inspire confidence in me for a site where I'm going to end up posting all sorts of details of my life... Still, I'll be interested to check it out myself once I can.
ojilles 15y ago
This is iPhoto events, at least for me. I call it my wayback-machine :)
asymmetric 15y ago
Depends on who you mean by 'anyone except someone I explicitly want to share it with'. You will most likely be able to decide which fb users have access to it, but it will nevertheless be accessible (albeit in some condensed form) to advertisers.
astrofinch 15y ago
I always figure my life is archived thoroughly enough by the e-mails I send and receive for me to reconstruct any period in reasonably high resolution.

0x12 15y ago

Do you really believe that facebook will be around for 4 consecutive generations while retaining the data that was entered there?

veyron 15y ago
That's when they will start charging for access ... gateway to your family history
jcitme 15y ago
Yes. I consider myself a pretty average user for the last 5 or so years on Facebook. I don't have a lot of videos uploaded, but do have a lot of pictures. Facebook compresses those like crazy though, so maybe I have about a gigabyte of data. At any rate, given that their (as in the company) worth is estimated at more than 200x the people that have access to high speed internet in the world in dollars [1], I think they can probably keep my data, barring bit rot. note: This assumes that people with dial up don't use Facebook. Probably a valid assumption, or at least that the amount of data a dial up user supplies would not make storage an issue. Their user base is quickly reaching the point where it is limited to the human population of earth itself (This is an assumption, but they claim 800 active users, which while might be questionable {define "active"} if the true value is around there, they cannot achieve exponential growth). Most people probably only load text, or highly compressed jpg photos. If they can simply turn a profit with a business model that can support the current state, they should be fine. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_users http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...
waterlesscloud 15y ago
The question really is "Do you believe the data will be around for 4 consecutive generations, in some form?" And my answer is that yes, yes I do.
- robryan 15y ago
  Especially as storage becomes cheaper and cheaper. I think if something were to happen to Facebook we would see a GeoCities like effort and everything you posted publicly would be backed up.

dorian-graph 15y ago

You could always follow the old-fashion method of keeping a journal. Maybe modernise it a bit and have a digital one with, wait for it, images and videos! I love keeping a journal and have done so for a fair few years quite diligently and before that, on and off. I have friends who have journals from their grandparents and some even further back.

RobPfeifer 15y ago

Would you trust FB with that data? I certainly would not. Nor would I trust ancestry.com.