Saturday, August 24, 2013

Who Owns Your Digital Stuff?

What happens if Google and/or Facebook shut-down or start charging for their services?

I have been thinking about this for a while - we are 100 percent dependent these days on these 'free' services. Furthermore, many schools and universities now use 'free' Gmail services, Google Docs, Google Drive, Facebook as an online learning platform, etc.

Sara Grossman has a nice article about that in the Chronicle of Higher Education and there are a few alternatives. Nothing is truly your own on the Internet, but these options are worth considering:

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