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What about the API? It wouldn't be at all hard to make a "Facebook-exporter" application using that. The question is: why would I bother doing that? Facebook is
by almost 19y ago
What about the API? It wouldn't be at all hard to make a "Facebook-exporter" application using that. The question is: why would I bother doing that? Facebook is crap as an address book, it's the other bits that are useful...
Whatever other reasons there are to think Facebook sucks I don't think this is one.
- DougBTX 19y agoIt's against the TOS to export data using the API.
- almost 19y agoAh, then ignore what I said before.
- boucher 19y agoIt's also worth noting that you can't get e-mail or any other contact info from the API. What's interesting about this argument, is that facebook used to have a feature to export all your friends to vCards. I asked their VP of Product Marketing recently why they got rid of the feature, and he claimed it was to protect users from spam. "Facebook is all about edge cases, and we haven't had the time to focus on the problems that would cause", or something to that effect.
- Goladus 19y agoI think spam is the biggest reason, after the inherent difficult of developing client-side apps, that online social networks growing towards email were more successful than email growing towards social networks.