Just because you're gone doesn't mean your content is too. Facebook has revised its Terms of Service to now say that all of your content belongs to the social site, even if you delete your content.
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Read More About Facebook's TOS Revision:
That cute picture of your baby? It could end up in an ad campaign. You've given Facebook permission to do what it wants with the image by uploading it.
Think it can't happen? Virgin Mobile Australia used a photo a user uploaded to Flickr to promote its free texting service.
Will the new TOS change the way you use the social networking site? Talk about it.
I will absolutely not use Facebook with this new TOS. I do not like the idea of them having the rights to photos I have taken of my child or updates I’ve posted that are personal. That is not right.
I guess we are all screwed now. What we have up there right now FB has already made a copy of. I won’t be putting any more personal pictures up unless I don’t care if FB steals them from me to use as they wish.
Mark Zuckerberg has posted to the Facebook blog in an effort to clarify the issue: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=54434097130
I don’t buy the explanation. You don’t clarify an issue in your T.O.S. that says you own everything forever, even after the member is gone because you’ve kept a copy of it. This explanation is simply trying to put out the fire Facebook itself started with the change in T.O.S.
Wasn’t MySpace’s version of this draconian TOS the reason so many left there for FaceBook? Seems like Facebook is shooting themselves in the foot. Nah, the ARE shooting themselves in the foot. Morons!
I just cancelled my Facebook account. I already had reservations about it after everything I heard about it being vulnerable to phishing scams. I think they are going to find this is a bad move.
The change will hurt them,but not shut them down. It is time we take ourselves back.
It makes no sense that Facebook would risk messing up a good thing by edging in on people’s intellectual property. They had people’s trust and then they go and risk losing it; not smart.