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Older or less widely used social media platforms to which content has been uploaded but for which no guarantees have been made about the long term |
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Group: Social Media |
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Consensus Decision |
Added to List: 2017 |
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Previous classification: Critically Endangered |
Trend in 2022: |
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Imminence of Action Action is recommended within three years, detailed assessment in one year. |
Significance of Loss The loss of tools, data or services within this group would impact on many people and sectors. |
Effort to Preserve Loss seems likely: by the time tools or techniques have been developed the material will likely have been lost. |
Examples BeBo, MySpace, Google Buzz and others |
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‘Practically Extinct’ in the Presence of Aggravating Conditions Closure of platform; lack of offline equivalent; lack of export functionality; no preservation undertaking from service provider; unstable business plan from service provider. |
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‘Endangered’ in the Presence of Good Practice Offline Replication; clear notice periods and alerts; committed ongoing maintenance of service |
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2021 Jury Review The 2019 judges added to this entry introduced in 2017, emphasizing the different threats faced by social media users who uploaded content to defunct or little-used social media platforms. Because these services are older, the need to act is more urgent than for others. Often, the significance is only brought to attention once they are lost, which in some instances may pose the question of the to preserve them. |
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Additional Comments It is to be hoped that some of these have been archived via traditional web archiving, and so the remnants of these sites can be found in bits and pieces in various web archives, but it may be too late to save some of the content that is likely already be lost. If some of this is still available, there may be hope in trying to preserve, but it may be difficult if the platforms are not willing to share data or work with preservationists. ArchiveTeam has stepped in here too. There is undoubtedly a story here that could be used as a call for arms to raise awareness about the preservation of current social media platforms too Case Studies or Examples:
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