16,195 comments, 2,143 likes, and an untold amount of posts, are now in jeopardy. And I'm overreacting? Puhlease.
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This is cause for concern and not a kneejerk
- Bwana ☠
If you disagree, you don't value your data as much as I do
- Bwana ☠
I don't want to hand that over to Facebook.
- Bwana ☠
I would hope that the guys at FF allow us a way to export the conversations.
- EricaJoy
Agree, I don't want to move over to FB. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
+100 Bwana
- vijay
I'm pretty sure it's all there and accessible via the API. Maybe it's time to get cracking on some robust export tools...
- Ken Sheppardson
That's what I posted on my blog. I'm very concerned about my content. That's my #1 focus right now. All the stuff I've shared from FF to my blog, the comments...where does that go?
- Anika
I search them of course. I repost them. I use them.
- Bwana ☠
If someone tries to misquote me in the future, I'll have the real data
- Bwana ☠
I would think FF -> Posterous, Tumblr, Wordpress, static HTML would all be reasonable options.
- Ken Sheppardson
And yeah, I know, Facebook could buy Posterous tomorrow and this would start again. That's a bridge for another day.
- Ken Sheppardson
Thanks Ken for ruining my brain
- Bwana ☠
I never thought FB could buy Posterous until you just said it :(
- Bwana ☠
Facebook is a great company. And maybe they will add some great features we've never thought about having and make the experience better for the users
- Seckoa
If we had wanted to post stuff on FB, they would have been posted over there surely? I use FB for connecting with far away family and friends; they don't want to see my science and cancer links, it's way over their head. Posterous is nice but it's like commenting on lots of disjointed blogs; there's no easy way to see conversations other than in isolation.
- Sally Church
the prob with facebook is it has too many features, worthless features. friend feed is very tuned.
- Marco
The possible feature changes, integrations and whatnot, I can get over. What I can't and won't get over is my data belonging to Facebook. That's where I draw the line.
- Bwana ☠
+100 Bwana! Why are people not thinking about their data!? Features? UI? SECONDARY! data is PRIMARY!
- vijay
On 2nd thought, maybe I should be more cautious abt making the jump from Twitter to FF as my primary Status Stream.
- Lawrence Liu
Hah! good find.
- Bwana ☠
I'll remember that
- Bwana ☠
lmorchard already created one in php IIRC -- http://github.com/lmorcha...
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Thanks bear, I'll be shopping for more later
- Bwana ☠
I may be a no body in St Augustine, FL, but my content is my content. I hate investing time in something just to loose it. That's how this feels.
- Ronald S