Abandoning the Social Networking Ship

Multiply finally released my content. 

I'm downloading all my photos as I type this entry and I just finished exporting my blog posts to this new blogger site. I'm actually thinking of re-posting some of my older photos on facebook... just to remind people of how carefree things once were.

Feels weird exporting everything and then importing them again somewhere else. Its like getting on a lifeboat and rowing away while looking back at a perfectly good ship in calm waters. Pointless and "necessary" at the same time. Pointless because multiply isn't really sinking that fast, the captain just drilled a hole in the hull; Necessary because I *have* to make sure I preserve everything. The previous generation had scrap books... I have multiply.

Kinda makes me wonder when and how facebook will face the same fate.

Why would facebook die? hmmmmm....

1. a new layout so "radical" it would make timeline look as good as the original FB profile. It would be soooo bad that people would just jump the boat and get on twitter, pinterest or even *gasp* tumblr

2. hack of the century. passwords, photos, personal info... ALL of it hacked, bastardized, deleted and scattered across the web. The combined complaining power of the world's facebook populace would spawn  a GLOBAL court hearing : The people of Planet earth vs Facebook

3. It just stops working and no one knows how to fix it. The ghost of Steve Jobs rumored to be seen in fb data centers around the world.

4. Facebook data grows so fast that it outpaces the production of digital storage. People will start getting "failed" messages on every status update, like and poke to the point that the data centers around the world just explode. Afterwards, people step out of their houses for the first time in decades.

5. Facebook decides that other Social Network sites are becoming more popular due to focused and/or niche services. They then decide to go a) SEARCH ENGINE b) ONLINE PHONEBOOK/DIRECTORY c) WEB HOSTING d) PROFESSIONAL NETWORK ala Linked in e) ADULT DATING SITE

6. Zuckerberg retires early, he makes so much money that he realizes he can just quit now and live with all the earnings he got. Company culture then spirals out of control as he is soon followed by senior employees leaving facebook to be run by a bunch of interns resulting in either one (or all) of the above

Would they let you back it up?

1. probably with some kinda cool shit like XMLAsdvha69 or something. you can even export to friendster, reddit and 9gag

2. Just for $199.68, you can buy a facebook tablet that has ALL of the recoverable data from your account. Its basically just a tablet that shows your timeline and you can click the stuff on it. Its waterproof, dirt proof and solar powered. It can act as your digital tombstone for when you finally log out from the world.

3. ... or maybe they'll take all your data and sell it to some stalkers, pedophiles, perverts and telemarketing companies to pay off for whatever debt they accumulated and to pay for zuckerberg jr's college fund.

I should really be sleeping now, i've got work tomorrow and midterms on saturday. LOL

hello first Blogger Blog post! hope you dont leave me too soon! lololol!