I’m not a real Facebook user. I have a “ghost” account on there that puts my tumblelog on the wall, and redirects people to my real home outside the Facebook walls. The ghost also acts as my doorway into searching the Facebook network, and helping my partner with the Miss Fitz-Poste’s Modern Mixers fan page. One of the things that has kept me from spending time there is the lock-in factor. Although I can write my own web apps to publish content, I much prefer to use services provided by others - but only if I have the ability to migrate that content elsewhere. As an experiment, I tried using the new Facebook graph API to export data from their site. Happily, it’s pretty easy to do this. Although the pseudo-privacy controls means you have to jump through some OAuth hoops, you can do it all from your browser. Register a Facebook app. OK, this sounds like a big deal, but you just have to provide any old name, and a site URL (later known as the App URL.) The key thing is that this does... - Anthony Bailey