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Re:Note from Mark Zuckerberg by fit2rule on Thursday April 28, 2016 @02:26AM (#11586858)
Yeah, I too fell over the double-speak in this statement. Facebook is open? I don't think so - or is there some way I can query all my data, ever, personally, and do my own data analysis on my Timeline, and my friends', and so on .. can I export this data (all of it) for use in other systems? Is this portable somewhere? Do I have to use Facebook, or can I just take my data elsewhere .. etc.

The only reason I use Facebook is the only reason I ever bothered to use Windows - because my friends insisted on using it and can't be convinced otherwise, due to their unwillingness to learn new things. It is not a technologically suitable solution to the problem of FOAF-networking, imho. Its socially accepted, only.

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Re:Note from Mark Zuckerberg by evincarofautumn on Thursday April 28, 2016 @03:03AM (#11586964)
You can download all your data[1]. You can also use the API (as an app, not an individual, IIRC) to query whatever else is visible to you. So someone could conceivably create a competing social network and offer an “import all Facebook data” feature, modulo privacy/legal concerns.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467/

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Re:Note from Mark Zuckerberg by fit2rule on Thursday April 28, 2016 @06:12AM (#11587643)
As has been noted: no, you cannot 'dump all your data'. In face Facebook goes out of its way to make sure you don't know everything they know about you .. that is the point entirely.
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Re:Note from Mark Zuckerberg by pmlnr on Thursday April 28, 2016 @04:44AM (#11587314)
Nonsense. That thing they offer as download doesn't even have the comments I left on not my posts.
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