There’s been a lot of fuss about the recent revisions to the Facebook Terms of Service (TOS), and for good reason. I am firmly of the belief that they need to change the terms to be more in line with other social networking sites to reflect the fact you must always retain ownership of your content. Right now, THEY OWN YOUR STUFF. Don’t like that idea? Start talking to everyone on Facebook about it, and then sent FB itself your thoughts. This is utter BS and it needs to change now.
If you care about ownership of your content on the Internet in general, and on Facebook specifically, READ THIS RIGHT NOW.
From the article:
Other sites point out in their terms of service that you still own your content: Facebook doesn’t mention that little fact. Facebook also neglects to remind you that you’re giving other Facebook users rights to your Facebook content, too — YouTube, for example, makes it clear that other people besides YouTube have a right to use and spread around the videos you upload. In general, other sites’ terms of service just have a more helpful tone.
UPDATE: Facebook has since reverted to the previous terms. That being said, I still don’t think this is entirely over.
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the fact that Facebook change their TOS back so quickly is an indication that they knew they were wrong in the first place