Facebook bust? Life without Facebook

What does Facebook have? Our Memories – four best practices if Facebook busts

Do you think Facebook can go completely bust?

I heard experts saying that Facebook is too big to fall; fortunately, Facebook isn’t a bank that trades in currency, making it a danger to the economy when it disappears.

Facebook is different, their currency is the LIKE, it is a weird currency; people kept harvesting likes by constantly posting stuff to get more likes; however we don’t know what the residual value of a LIKE is. Never before we faced this kind of situation; where a huge global enterprise that was built on social currency is flailing and people are urging others to desert it. It is a weird situation and any result is possible.

Facebook bust? Trading in Memories

So, what will happen to us, the users, should Facebook disappear?

From the user perspective – us – Facebook offers a list of all our historical social interactions – all of the information we have in our Facebook profile boils down to a summary of our digital memories. The fact is that we don’t know what value is in those memories for us – the end users.

What we do know is that people are highly protective of their physical memories and go to great lengths to preserve them – As Nobel Prize Laureate Daniel Kahneman described on TED– we are slaves to our memories.

Even if there is no actual value to Facebook memories, people and businesses invested a lot of efforts in creating a well-groomed presence on Facebook. Under the current situation they definitely got the short end of the stick since they don’t necessarily own their Facebook page. While Facebook can trade the information and sell our well-groomed– individual profiles to the highest bidder, or any bidder for that matter, eventually when Facebook will disappear from the face of the earth it will not preserve our photos from the trip to Alaska.

Facebook bust – Four Practices to Keep our Digital Memories

Here are four things you can do if or when Facebook bust and stops being your friends’ favorite social network and you find yourself alone, in the dark, with only Mark Zuckerberg holding a candle for you.

1. Download a list of all your friends on Facebook and make sure you have their email address and other contact information. At least do that for the real friends. According to Dunbar’s number – you really have approximately 125 real friends on Facebook, so make sure you have their contact details.
2. Download a summary of major post, interactions and events – Facebook has an option to create summary ‘albums’ usually shoved involuntarily down the users – ours – throats. Instead, download a summary story of your Facebook life and keep it as a document, presentation or any available format on your device.
3. Save photos, videos and all other downloadable information to your device, back it up to somewhere that you actually own; and then, if you feel like it, share it with your friends on a cloud based picture sharing application.
4. if you’re serious about your digital presence and sharing your information with others – move your social posting to a page you own to share through social networks, so you are the owner of your destiny…

Or ,if you don’t care about your virtual memories as they are presented on Facebook then just grab a glass of real wine and take a front row seat as these weird events are unfolding.

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March 26, 2018