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Scoble Kicked Off Facebook For Downloading Content
Mike Butcher, a blogger with TechCrunch UK, predicted that the portability
of data on social networks will be a big issue in 2008.
The disabling of Scoble's Facebook account "will fire the starting gun on
all the debates about who owns your data on a social network.

What content belongs to who. Is your profile your content or that of the service hosting it? Are your friends' comments in your profile your content, theirs, or the host's? Sound complicated? It is. But it needs to be worked out in order to meet another need people are voicing: "data portability" or social-networking interoperability. "There is a crying need for some open and standardized format to allow social Web users to manage and move their data around,". "The data that your 'friends enter about themselves? Well, they've shared it with you, but is it yours to export? And since you've entered into an agreement with Facebook to voluntarily add information to Facebook's database, does the company have some kind of claim as well, (not to mention some obligation to prevent one of your "friends" from exporting your contact information without letting you know)?" These are not just copyright or content-ownership questions, they're privacy ones. Read

You all know that you can select 'see limited profile' 
when you accept a friend? That way, you can prevent people you do not 
know as well from seeing your complete profile. If you are concerned 
about the info you have there, you can elect not to include it. I 
never include my phone number or home address.


"the news that Robert Scoble was stealing personal information from the 5,000 people in his Facebook network. Despite how Robert wants to spin it, he took their data without their permission and then used it however he wanted. Suffice to say, Robert Scoble and I are no longer Facebook BFFs." READ

"Frenemies"
<snip>
As this whole social network thing starts to mature, it's becoming
more and more important for users to know who's in their network. For
both your own personal use, as well as for business security. It's
about creating the highest quality social network you can, not the
biggest, the noisiest or the one with the most star power.</snip>
Scoble has 5,000 "friends" that, had they been a tad
more selective, would not be dealing with this privacy issue now.


Quote from the new TV Show "The Big Bang Theory"
LEONARD:  We need to widen our circle
SHELDON:  I have a very WIDE circle.  I have 212 friends on MySpace
LEONARD:  Yes, and you've never met one of them.
SHELDON:  That's the beauty of it.


Read Scoble's blahg on the matter:


Comment:
If you the people you linked to on Facebook were really your friends you
wouldn't have thousands of them and you wouldn't need software to collect
the information. You'd be able to go through and to do it yourself. Or...
gasp, they're your friends! You already know most of their birthdays and
whether or not they're on Plaxo!