Facebook is hiring the Storylane team but you get your stories. From their CEO:
The beautiful stories you have decided to share with us are yours to keep and share in however way you want. We are building tools that will help you migrate the content to other services if you so desire. I will be in touch with you about those specific tools later, but I can confirm that Facebook is not acquiring any of your data; and we’re working to make sure you can migrate your content in a manageable way.
Nice going! If Storylane can
- be thorough (all the data including profiles, posts, comments by you, comments about your work, and conversations with other users),
- give lots of time to move (months or quarters, not weeks),
- document the file formats (the better to reuse the data after the source is gone),
- provide a snapshot of how the content looked on the site (the better to reconstruct and interpret story presentation),
- provide ways to both backup locally and to migrate to other services,
- and make it easy to do,
they will be doing more than Facebook does. Here’s hoping Jonathan Gheller and team deliver and carry that commitment to personal control of personal data to their new home. Congrats on the graceful exit!
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