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This is a good point and a similar experience for me (I was in high school 1996-2000). I'll add that, in my experience, those private, deep conversations through AIM and email enhanced my in-person relationships. While phones and social media have interfered with them.
My photos are in disarray and it would be nice to have something like this to help me organize them, but I store my raw files (.NEF) as well. Does this support raw files?
I thought it was pretty well known that sites give themselves those rights in the TOS, especially with the recent Twitpic issues where they were selling user content.
In any case, from SmugMug's terms: "However, by uploading and/or posting any User Content to the Site, you grant SmugMug a perpetual, nonexclusive and royalty-free right to use the User Content and the name that is submitted in connection with such User Content, as is reasonably necessary to display the User Content, provide the Services and to facilitate, at Content Owner's direction, the license of Photos or the sale of Products on the Site."
Under #13, http://www.smugmug.com/aboutus/terms/.
From Facebook terms, "you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."
Under #2-1, http://www.facebook.com/#!/terms.php.
Noticed you had no response to the value gained from OpenPhoto over the download all.
I'm a SmugMug user but I can definitely see the value here. All sites where you upload your photos have a TOS that gives them rights to use and keep your photos, even if you leave the service. A service like this would not have those rights and not even be able to access your photos if you leave because you own the S3 container and take your photos with you.
Download all is also not a great solution because if you want to leave then you have to download all your files and then upload them all again to the new service. Using a solution as OpenPhoto you would just be able to move from one provider to the next without any hassle. I'm also assuming with the download all solution you lose all your ratings, tags, comments, and any other meta info on your photos. Again, moving services with something like OpenPhoto would keep that data with the photos.