Seventh, consumers, not the platforms, should own their own data. In the case of Facebook, this includes posts, friends, and events—in short, the entire social graph. Users created this data, so they should have the right to export it to other social networks. [/i]
This may be well intentioned but really meaningless.
Show me a single social network or forum or whatever that allows you to export your data (ah, btw Facebook does allow you to export your data haha
) in a way that is then importable somewhere else and it just works... Right. Crickets.
People who write these articles probably think that if they write it, someone will just magically do what they suggest and world will be a better place (TM). In reality, the "magically" part is really really hard. And unless there's a huge strong push by a visionary team, none of it is going to happen. Especially when suggestions require interoperability, portability, etc.
Edit: homework assignment for the talented people everywhere: if I export my data from CoBF, which clearly refers to other people in CoBF, their posts, threads, etc., how exactly this can be imported into some-CoBF-clone-forum-social-network without losing most of its meaning? Bonus question: how do you preserve context without violating rights of others?
Edit2: I forgot: the solution is to put everything on blockchain. There.
Color me skeptical.
But I am all for world peace, rainbow unicorns, and users owning their data.
