Facebook: the new data black hole « Scobleizer

Facebook: the new data black hole « Scobleizer:

I added the Wordpress Facebook Application a few days ago. Now my blog, and your comments, are showing up on my Facebook Profile Page. Along with my Twitters. My Flickr photos. My Google Reader items. My Kyte videos. And a bunch of other things.

Jeremiah Owyang is sitting here with me and he’s the one who said it’s a black hole after seeing how Facebook is becoming the new portal for all information you post around the Web.

I just don’t buy it. Facebook isn’t a black hole.

To me, being a black hole implies the data is going in and being captured. Facebook isn’t grabbing that data, it’s reflecting it. It’s Google Reader (or name your preferred RSS aggregator/reader), only it takes all data types, and it’s allowing you to define the subscriptions for your readers, rather than the readers setting up their own subscriptions.

The amount of data that actually lives on Facebook (and I agree, what data exists there needs to be exportable in some parseable format) is actually pretty small.

Facebook — it’s not a black hole. it’s a “me aggregator”. I just don’t see that as a problem that has to be solved, but does need some way to allow me to back “me” up and perhaps move it elsewhere.

So, how would we define a portable “me” format, anyway?

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