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Do you keep a backup of your list of Facebook friends, your HN posts and "saved stories"?

• beagle3 12y ago
  Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. Any facebook contact I care about is already in my email program's contacts (Thunderbird, local, backed up) and my phone (contacts) - and I prefer to contact them without using facebook as an intermediary. Whenever there's an interesting story on HN I think I'd want to refer to later, I bookmark&cache it locally. And posts/comments I deem worthy to save, I do save a copy of locally, although that's about one in fifty I make. I know that's not common, and furthermore in the event of a global facebookgeddon, it is likely my bookmarks would be useless. But in the case of a local cloudgeddon (see e.g. the Matt Hunan story), I'm mostly covered.