Comments on: Facebook Terms of Service Update

By: claudia Olivos

claudia Olivos — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:45:58 +0000

Very nicely said!
I am posting a link to this blog on my blog…let me know if it’s not ok!
I lost 40 fb friends over night after these news traveled around the blogosphere and tweeter!

Claudia
http://olivosartstudio.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/olivosartstudio

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:02:02 +0000

Yet another reason to hate Facebook…

I just nuked all my albums from FB.

No reason to have them there, it’s all on Flickr.

By: Ray Ebersole

Ray Ebersole — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:40:10 +0000

Okay, I’m not overly upset, but it seems like too much control by Facebook to me. Being a technology support professional in the education field I’ve always been careful about what I post online in my blogs, Facebook or any comments.

What you post is what the public see’s, becoming your personality. Current and possibly a new employer could see what you have posted, not like it and then you are left explaining or without that new job.

Common sense, a slow trigger to read the whole picture helps. Wait a few days then look at it again. Is it really that big of a deal?

As of now, it’s a pain, I don’t like it, I would like it gone, I think Facebook doesn’t understand PR and I’m going to continue just as I have because I don’t have anything posted that I would worry about anyone having.

By: GZ Expat

GZ Expat — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:35:59 +0000

Like the iTunes cult, I refused to be drawn in by the Facebook cult. It’s far better to own your own domain and website and update and do as you want when you want to.

By: Tawcan

Tawcan — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:35:53 +0000

Don’t upload stuff onto Facebook that you wouldn’t share with other people. Afterall it’s a social network, it’s all about sharing information. If you’re worried about companies owning your stuff you should just unplug, stay home, and never take one step outside of your home.

Having said that though, I’m going to stop uploading my artistic pics on Facebook just to be safe.

By: JP Holecka

JP Holecka — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:33:17 +0000

I stopped posting original material on FB last summer. Now it is just links, blog summaries and filckr slideshows. The blog summaries push to my blog and I get a lot of traffic the site from there. The flickr slideshows are low rez and embedded in Flash so they are safe from FB and the links that I post? Hell they can own those if they so choose. Might be a tough one in court but there ya go.

By: Raul

Raul — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:13:57 +0000

I uploaded my 25 things meme (I should’ve tagged you, but I didn’t want to impose any more writing on you!) today to Facebook. Originally I was going to import all my RSS feed (Karen Hamilton showed me how to do it) but then I thought about it. As you have seen on my newly minted Facebook profile, all I do is post on walls back and forth. If I get tagged on a photo, it’s more than likely I’ll remove the tag. I prefer to have as much control of my content as I can

By: Miss604

Miss604 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:15:10 +0000

@ OrangeBigMac – True, do not upload things you don’t want to be shared or seen in public. The issue here is that many people do not realize how public what they upload might truly be. I’ve seen many inappropriate comments on blogs, Twitter, Facebook etc. and what a lot of people don’t realize is that those all become searchable in Google (by your mom, your boss etc. even without you *knowing* they’re there). However I think this has moved away from the original licensing discussion a bit…

By: OrangeBigMac

OrangeBigMac — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:01:06 +0000

Please, what’s the big deal? You upload stuff to a social network to make it public, even if it’s just to your friends! If you are putting stuff on the web that you don’t want to be seen, then it shouldn’t be on a social networking site like Facebook in the first place.

Sorry to come off a little abrasive, but I’ve been reading posts about this all day where people are complaining.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:58:16 +0000

Wow, what a huge fuss over something that seems (at least to me) very trivial.

Fact: Most all information and content sharing sites have scary, air-tight TOUs that give them license to use your content (As Shane points out, to protect them from litigation, should it ever actually be used in promotional materials, for eg.).

Fact #2: In the Consumerist story, “License” somehow morphs into “ownership” and the full extent of what Facebook has the rights to do is listed. A rather paranoid viewpoint for the sake of linkbaiting, imo.

Facebook is not likely ever to re-use your content for any reason. They simply don’t care about you, sorry. Should your image ever appear in a Facebook ad (however unlikely), I’m afraid you’ve signed over that right. If this concerns you, maybe content sharing isn’t for you.

Fact #3: This seemingly alarming change to their TOU warns that your content might survive your deleting it (which seems to me to be a suitable clause considering the viral nature in which content is copy and spread, the way Rebecca points out above).