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Facebook's New Terms of Service
An anonymous reader writes "Chris Walters writes about Facebook's new terms of service. 'Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.
Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.'" Oh no! Now they'll be able to license your super flair goblin poke 25 tag history!
It is a scam and a waste of time.
It's retroactive.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
I guess I'll stop backing up my code to "My notes".
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
How cares? If they can't profit from your data why should they even bother to keep it? Just toss it out like a cryogenic storage farm that doesn't want to buy any more liquid nitrogen.
Not to mention that Facebook really aren't going to have the slightest interest in the average user, nor in using their content if and when they leave the site.
You say that now... wait till they license 1,000,000 pictures in bulk at $0.01/image to someone who publishes gay pin-up calenders... including that picture of you at the beach with your shirt off when you were 17...
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And then throw that "25 things people don't know about me" thing that was going around a few weeks ago into the mix. Now they have that information, too.
I wonder what the marketers will do with:
14) I will go out of my way not buy anything because of unsolicited marketing.
Like a what?! Dude, seriously, what's wrong with a car analogy?
I hate printers.
You wouldn't steal a car analogy...
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I have also a similar statement about my person data which I posted as my first items. Facebook is free to close my account if they disagree with my terms.
I look forward cashing in some day!
including that picture of you at the beach with your shirt off when you were 17...
I don't think _anyone_ at /. has to worry about that.
and they were being valued as being bigger than GM.
These days, the knitting that my grandmother sells at the yearly town fair is viewed as bigger than GM.
I only pray that this is what kills facebook so I can stop hearing people rant about how great it is and how I should join.
I'm an atheist, so forgive the expression.
Amen.
Skiffy is Spiffy, but Ort is tort.
Actually, it would be more like a sign on the McDonald's door saying, "By entering this door, you agree to any terms posted within."
Or better yet, "By parking in our parking lot, you agree to be bound to any terms presented."
I have always wanted to put a sign on my front door which says, "By ringing my door bell, you agree to be squirted with a fully-loaded SuperSoaker, confronted by an angry naked man, or some combination thereof."
Quick! Someone register neckbeardbears.com!
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Facebook is great. You should join!
But can you prove that was my arse????????
If he's the Walrus then can I be a penguin please?
Do you have a link to the 'skanky bikini amateurs' webpage?
...oh, and yo momma's so fat, her Schwarzchild radius is visible to the naked eye.
I have always wanted to put a sign on my front door which says, "By ringing my door bell, you agree to be squirted with a fully-loaded SuperSoaker, confronted by an angry naked man, or some combination thereof."
You're supposed to warn people before doing that?
Why is it always amen? What about bmen? And why stop at men? Why not awomen? =]
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Yes.
Why is it always amen? What about bmen? And why stop at men? Why not awomen? =]
This is slashdot. Nobody here will ever get to use awoman