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Whenever something sketchy happens to your favorite social network’s TOS, there are always folks who say they’re packing up, taking their data and leaving. But backing up your social data doesn’t have to be a last resort. After all, who knows what might happen to the cloud.
Do you back up any of your social media accounts on a regular basis? Would you if it was a little easier? If you don’t, do you just not care about all those Instagram pictures you’ve taken of dinner, or do you trust that they’ll be there forever and ever and ever and ever and ever?
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I do one better; I just don’t bother with them.
I’ve written a tool, for my social network, that can suck in all the information from the others (Facebook etc) let you choose which parts of it you want to keep, then pops it into a file.
Once I get things going ill probably give the code away for others to play with
Sounds great – but rather than giving this away, you could make some money with this. Especially with social media becoming more integrated with people’s real life.
However, I would be more than happy to beta test for you
The software will be made available for free as part of my social network anyway, so this way everyone gets to benefit.
As for beta testing, if you are serious, drop me a line and i’ll show you where I am so far, and would welcome your thoughts.