Who owns your personal data in social media? Right now, it’s not you.
Recent comments about posts regarding data portability between social media sites have all been clamoring about Google, MySpace and Facebook. The big question is who owns the data, and who can make it easy for data to be shared across platforms for people to make one update and all other platforms are updated.
This has also been an issue in the web analytics arena regarding proprietary data storage making it damn near impossible to switch analytics providers.
Ultimately, the web is an open living environment where data is meant to be shared. Just look back around 6-7 years and what Napster did to file sharing. Now its just about how personal data is shared and stored. Rather than making people go to Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, MySPace and others, people want it all in one repository. In the end, the user wants to own the data and use Facebook or MySpace as a way of displaying not, not the other way around.
Tags: data portability, Social media
