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So? Most people don't want constant out access from the information they have there. The one important asset, photos, already can be easily extracted.

If you choose to use Facebook, you choose to play by their rules. Nobody forces you to pick them over anybody else.

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Sure, but if I choose a competitor I either have to convince everyone I know to switch or be lonely. This isn't to say that this is Facebook's fault (well, I guess you could make the argument that they haven't tried to connect their network up with others, but that's not really their responsibility either), but it still is a huge pain.

(Similar is the problem with AIM; I don't like it, but few people I talk to use anything else.)

It is a pain, but if it ever gets too much you can quit using it. So I don't hold it against him.

(Zuckerberg recently said on Twitter that Facebook is opening itself up as much as possible this year, so hopefully everybody gets to be happy!)

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