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I'm not making the MS connection - are you saying that Facebook will be eventually required solely for its email addresses?
by smokinjoe 14y ago
I'm not making the MS connection - are you saying that Facebook will be eventually required solely for its email addresses?
- _suoiruc 14y agoNo connection. Two separate points: 1. A prediction that FB will be acquired 2. A suggestion about the importance of email addresses, both for you, the FB user, and for FB. Hypothetical: You need to contact one or more of your FB friends. The only contact info you have for them is what they submitted to FB. But you never copied their email address from FB to your computer, phone, etc. FB "implodes". Or maybe you just want to switch to another social network and you want to let your friends know about it, but for some reason you cannot do it via FB. Email is how things gets boostrapped. This is why there was a battle using dirty tactics between Google/Gmail and Facebook early on over snarfing people's email address books. Your email address is valuable. Valuable to you. And to FB. And to any company that might acquire FB. My suggestion is make sure you have your own copy (e.g. saved on a USB stick, SD card, HDD, or even printed out on a sheet of paper) that is not controlled by some web startup. My guess would be a lot of FB users don't. If FB implodes, they could lose contact with certain people.
- smokinjoe 14y agoWhile it's too late to edit, the typo is driving me insane: required => acquired.