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In a year from now you will accept that they did you a favor, how unlikely it seems now.

Good fortune with the rest of your life.

You may have guessed, I do not use Facebook.

While I am excited to embark on this new path, I am quite frustrated as to why I can't get a download of all my conversations and photos, that mostly were solely on Facebook because that seemed like the most reliable hoster.

I can imagine, keep in mind that no other place than your own equipment is safe enough to keep your private life. Even your own equipment isn't safe enough to go without proper backup.

2 important things you should consider in this day and age: 1. It does not matter if you pay for services or not, you are always considered product instead of customer and your stuff is only interesting for them when there is monetary gain. 2. Everybody in any company is only there for a finite time, this makes people not care about what happens when they move on.

Conclusion, no company or service offerer is ever fit to take care after your stuff, only you are, online or offline.

Same here, I just can't make the time for Facebook. Heck, when MySpace was the place to be I started an account and was active for all of a week. Maybe I'm just too old for Facebook (28).

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