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by jrockway 5810 days ago
What if the new owner decides to "generate revenue" by selling your personal information to the highest bidder, and then turns the site off? Reselling the information is cheaper than keeping a bunch of programmers and sysadmins employed, after all.
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class action lawsuit perhaps?
"But your honor, I didn't actually read the agreement I signed when I joined Facebook."

Yeah, that sounds pretty good, but I would have a backup strategy just in case...

You plan to ask for a refund? Nobody asked or paid 500 million users to put their entire lives online.