Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Found something I wrote in 2009, when Yahoo shut down Geocities:
“It’s funny: the things we expect to disappear from the web often don’t, but the things we expect to be permanent often do drop out of existence. GeoCities appeared 14 years ago. Will today’s blogs, Facebook pages, forums, and wikis still be around 14 years from now?”
The blog I posted it on is still there. A lot of sites it linked to aren’t.
Thinking about this post on “permanence” with #SocialMedia / #IndieWeb / #SelfHosting (for things that you *want* to keep permanent, anyway), balancing questions like are you going to outlive Facebook or the other way around, etc.
I still think an “export to static site” option should be standard on any CMS as an exit strategy (on top of actual data portability) for cases where you no longer have the resources, time, inclination, etc. to maintain it.