[qq66]

Even if Google cloned Facebook line-for-line I'm not sure how would it gain any traction. I have such an incredible amount of metadata locked inside Facebook that it's going to take a LOT to get me to change to anything new. And why -- just so Sergey can own my data instead of Zuck?

[drinian]

And that's the point, really -- don't let your metadata get locked into one service! We should have been supporting exchange standards for this stuff years ago.

That's the downfall of the Web age of the Internet; we (the public) reverted to a client-server attitude rather than a network of equal peers.

My Facebook account is still active, but there's nothing there but an email address and a picture now. I think that's a fair compromise for the time being.