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Marc Canter: I resent Facebook execs continuing to hide behind the shroud of privacy to some how ‘protect me’ from who - myself?That's just it. This isn’t about protecting you from yourself. It’s about protecting everyone on your friends list from you. If I agree to declare myself your friend on Facebook, that in no way implies that I’ve agreed to be your friend on Myspace, LinkedIn, or whatever.
So even in a best-case scenario for "open Facebook" enthusiasts, FB can only open things up to the extent that they allow individual users to say, “yeah, UserX can take my unique identifier with her”. And the number of people who would bother to check that box in their settings is probably somewhere between zero and Scoble. There’s no benefit to me in letting you drag my Facebook persona around with you, after all.
In all this talk of social silos, folks keep mentioning “my data”. But ultimately, “my data” in any social network is pretty sparse... photos I've uploaded, bulletins/notes I've posted, and so on. The important stuff (the social graph) is actually “our data”, and I have no business unilaterally deciding to take it elsewhere.
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