What an unimportant measure of data. I bet a lot of that '1222 pages,' or up to 700mb (based on an average CD), is timestamps and other metadata on where and wh

What an unimportant measure of data. I bet a lot of that '1222 pages,' or up to 700mb (based on an average CD), is timestamps and other metadata on where and when he poked, commented, updated, and deleted his friends, photos, and statuses. You know, the sort of petty activity that Facebooking is mostly composed of. It doesn't really add up like that. Most of it never matters a week later. What would have been more interesting is the KIND of data he got. Like, to what extent have they been tracking him physically? Today I myself updated to the Timeline profile and was surprised at the addition of a Map section beside my photos with 70 markers of where Facebook knows I've been. Looking through them though I remember authorizing the tracking in all of the ones I saw, and it's mostly just at school and at home. Did the data include the websites he visits, speaking lately of the 3rd-party tracking cookies that the Like buttons got so much attention for? His level of friendship with his various friends? They have algorithms for this, and the extent to which they analyze a user is more interesting than how endowed their database is. Unfortunately the real juicy stuff probably isn't even there because the article says Facebook isn't required legally to provide any 'analytical procedures' that they run. I bet most of that 1222 pages is just noise.