One argument the paper makes is the ability to export Facebook photos off Facebook, presumably onto your own personal hard drive. It would be a file with metadata that includes friend tags, comments, etc. Doesn't this miss the entire point they try to make in rethinking files for the Cloud? With everything available, wouldn't we lose the "export" grammar in the first place, not to mention personal hard drives?
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One argument the paper makes is the ability to export Facebook photos off Facebook, presumably onto your own personal hard drive. It would be a file with metadata that includes friend tags, comments, etc. Doesn't this miss the entire point they try to make in rethinking files for the Cloud? With everything available, wouldn't we lose the "export" grammar in the first place, not to mention personal hard drives?