"Facebook's biggest threat is a loss of meaning through noise, not users using an alternative app to capture their media."

This is true of any data aggregator and visualizer. I'd argue they, probably next to Twitter, are the best at attempting to handle it within a social context.

I guess my thought about photos is incomplete in that making FB a storage for media means that your mean average of shared media will go up as well (it's already there, might as well). We see this in bulk uploads.

I agree that there is a certain amount of selectivity involved - but we vary as individuals. I think only in the last couple of years, after the fad of being able to toss everything online in heaps - have we begun to understood how our online perception is made.

"As for Facebook Messenger, I'll be damned if I let Facebook permanently record every last one of my private message for eternity."

Agreed. That's why I'm off it.