It doesn't make sense that a company would expire data, it's not illegal, and users are not the customers to companies like Facebook, and Google. Users are the

It doesn't make sense that a company would expire data, it's not illegal, and users are not the customers to companies like Facebook, and Google. Users are the product to advertising. A more concrete solution would be to own our own data for these kinds of services, and pay for the active development & hosting. I'm all for this, and hope to see business like this in the future, I would definitely pay for Facebook if it were possible. Some issues I could see with allowing the free market to yield, is allowing interoperability with existing services. Is it illegal to plug Diaspora into Facebook and redirect friends to my service? I'm sure it's against their ToS, and I bet Facebook will do everything in it's power to protect it's product. Also, credit card fees make it difficult to implement micro transactions. If I charge someone $1, 32.9% will go to fees [1]. I like fiat currencies, but the government should really step in and clean up the infrastructure. Credit card companies are centralized services for our transactions, held in power by the government. Paying with cash is amazingly decentralized, and crypto currencies accomplish the same effect on the internet. If our government designed a better currency for the internet, it would give more power to the free market. [1] https://stripe.com/us/pricing https://stripe.com/us/pricing