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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

One more thing- reading these old blogs it's wild to think that #Facebook was once considered a fairly "private" platform, so much that it was a selling point for some.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090213175451/www.webmonkey.com/blog/OpenSocial%5FIs%5FDoomed:%5FMarc%5FCuban%5Fs%5FFacebook-Yahoo%5FMashup%5FFantasies

For one thing, most Facebook users tout the service's privacy as one of its chief appeals, getting those same users to suddenly share their profile data with outside domains would tough - even attempting it would likely incur a certain amount of user wrath.