Just In Case You Needed Another Reason To Leave Facebook

Facebook blocks contact-exporting tool | Deep Tech - CNET News. Perhaps I like Google Plus so much because it is the Anti-Facebook. It is easy to get contacts and information and data in and out; it begins with privacy, and allows you to decide what should be shared, and with whom; it gives you control over the third parties who have access to your data, and so on and so on. However, blocking an app that allows users to export their contact lists, thus making it easier to import them into other applications like Google Plus, is a bridge too far. Facebook needs to realize that no software company is immune from the market forces of free flow of data. Many software companies have rued the day they decided to make it difficult to leave a service. It sours the user in such a way that he or she will never come back. User experience is marketing 101. Is Facebook so powerful that it can get away with this kind of stuff? We shall see.