My opinion: I'm a live by the sword, die by the sword kind of guy. I don't really find anything wrong with an option to mine other sources for data, and I'm sur

My opinion: I'm a live by the sword, die by the sword kind of guy. I don't really find anything wrong with an option to mine other sources for data, and I'm sure I could find some way to justify (to myself) locking out mining from a site of my own, but there's no way I'd do both. I'm not even sure it makes business sense (most unethical practices don't in the long run). While a massive shift away from Facebook could happen (ala Friendster), Facebook would do far better trying to raise their value to users and solidify their status as a platform to prevent that from happening.