Give Me My Data
Give Me My Data is a Facebook application that helps users export their data out of Facebook. Reasons could include making artwork, archiving and deleting your account, or circumventing the interface Facebook provides. Data can be exported in CSV, XML, and other common formats. Give Me My Data is currently in public-beta.
While clearly utilitarian, this project intervenes into online user experiences, provoking users to take a critical look at their interactions within social networking websites. It suggests data is tangible and challenges users to think about ways in which their information is used for purposes outside of their control by government or corporate entities.
The application and information
Visualizations made with Give Me My Data
Press
Facebook, dammi indietro i miei dati ("Facebook, give me back my data")by Valeria Camagni, PC Professionale, Milan, Italy. May 3, 2010.
Two Facebook Apps To Help You Fight Back Against Facebookby Chris Walters, The Consumerist, May 4, 2010
data, code, facebook, intervention, design, software