Remember that picture you uploaded to your Facebook account? That picture, along with all of the information you upload onto your personal account now owned completely by the popular website.
The social networking website Facebook is under investigation by its users for their terms of service, which outlines their ownership of all contents published onto the site.
I have hope this creates an active suspicion of all of those terms of service boxes people agree to without even reading. Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites which are a reason for the attention being brought, but what about all those others that people have agreed to?
Which sites have people essentially given up their personal information to without even realizing it? Many security problems are happening all over the Internet, yet people in our society still are publishing so much of their personal information on websites for the world to have access to.
Young college students are the main users of Facebook, and many are trying to make their accounts disappear when applying for jobs. With these new terms, Facebook will own that information and the ability to delete all of those pictures and comments will no longer exist.
Hopefully the publicity of this invasion of information will make people who use social networking sites less ignorant to what they are giving up when signing up.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Facebook Forever
Remember that picture you uploaded to your Facebook account? That picture, along with all of the information you upload onto your personal account now owned completely by the popular website.
The social networking website Facebook is under investigation by it's users for their terms of service, which outlines their ownership of all contents published onto the site.
Facebook this month has updated the terms by adding that even when a user deletes their account, all the information and contents of their account will still belong to Facebook and the account's contents can be used by the site.
Facebook chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, blogged that users can still use the site as they want, but declined to comment on the updated terms of service.
When news of the change got back to users, there were many "groups" formed in order to protest the new terms.
Facebook maintains that it is only holding each of it's users accountable, while others are interpreting the terms as an takeover of their own person.
The social networking website Facebook is under investigation by it's users for their terms of service, which outlines their ownership of all contents published onto the site.
Facebook this month has updated the terms by adding that even when a user deletes their account, all the information and contents of their account will still belong to Facebook and the account's contents can be used by the site.
Facebook chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, blogged that users can still use the site as they want, but declined to comment on the updated terms of service.
When news of the change got back to users, there were many "groups" formed in order to protest the new terms.
Facebook maintains that it is only holding each of it's users accountable, while others are interpreting the terms as an takeover of their own person.
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