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For the life of me Idk why the social graph has not been scraped from facbook yet. Back in the friendster days I distinctly remember being able to import my fr
by wizardforhire 2y ago
For the life of me Idk why the social graph has not been scraped from facbook yet.
Back in the friendster days I distinctly remember being able to import my friends over to myspace and then later from myspace to facebook years later. We used to have a mass exodus every few years and then we we’re locked into facebook. Facebook should have died many times over. That no competing service has been built that has made migration easy is in my opinion the reason facebook has been allowed to fester for so long.
That such a tactic may be a violation of tos or questionable legally never stopped anyone before… and on the legal front I would argue it’s the users who own their social graph. Before facebook your address book was a thing of immense value. I have multiple friends irl that would sell their contacts for $10k+. That everyone just decided to give that info to facebook still boggles my mind and especially after all the bs they pulled over the years, yet here we are.
- ttyprintk 2y agoGraph API sat at v1.0 until Cambridge Analytica. The answer to your question is related to the amount they paid Facebook.