Will Facebook Ever Delete All Our Stuff?!?

[Michael]

Basically anytime you use a hosted service like Facebook etc. you need to know that they usually reserve all rights to do anything they see fit. They use your pictures for ads now. How do you access your pictures when facebook is down, which is happening more and more often? What will you do when they go out of business? Facebook will not last forever, and you will often get very little notice when a service goes under. All the data from MegaUpload is sitting in some FBI warehouse and there are STILL a lot of people in court about that, because they didn't follow my one simple piece of advice, below.

TLDR always keep a local backup of everything. Go make a local copy of everything you value while your service is still online.