Did you guys here about Facebook!!!!!

United States
February 18, 2009 6:42am CST
According to Facebook's terms of use they can do whatever they want to with your private information.They might i.e. sell your private pictures to a pin-up calender company According to Facebook spokesman Chris Hughes private information has never been sold to any company ok so why change the terms of use then really I know I would not want to give them the right over any or all of my personal information just another reason I do not like face book that is just not right!
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@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
18 Feb 09
That brings up some questions and it is also a reason I'm not on Facebook. When you sign on to become a member, are the rules clear, including what they can do with your info? If they are not, should there be state or federal laws regarding this? It is scary how easy it is to find info on all of us. Did you know that any picture you put on the net can with a little work be found? Beware what we do.
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• United States
19 Feb 09
Good points there. You are so right about the way we "read" the rules.It also should be a warning to us all that we should never post pictures we would not want our mothers to see.
@youless (112178)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Feb 09
Facebook is a very popular social networking. I am also a member of it. But I am not very interested in it. I joined it because I want to see my friend's photos. I don't think it is right to reveal its members' personal information. I even think it's illegal. As when we joined it, it didn't have such kind of rule. I love China
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@cream97 (29087)
• United States
19 Feb 09
I agree with youless.. I have an account, and I have not been active at all in an whole year.. I am glad that I have not been. What this website is doing is breaking their company's policy..
@arcidy (5005)
• United States
18 Feb 09
Well maybe that would stop people from putting embarassing pictures of themself which I dont know why so many morons would put an embarassing picture of themself. But thats why I probally will never join facebook. Well I wouldnt have before I found out about that anyway lol.
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• United States
18 Feb 09
They have been taking a beating over this change in their TOS policy. Most people really don't read TOS policies and they were fully aware of this. While they stated they weren't planning selling info, there's nothing to stop them from doing so if they started to need to raise capital and who knows what could happen if they were taken over by another company! Hopefully the OP was right about changing the policy back.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
18 Feb 09
My friend Lynda (who hasn't posted any content yet) is cancelling her account. I don't post anything original there myself.
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@tea512 (687)
• United States
18 Feb 09
It is sad to think you could delete your account and they will the information. When I logged in this morning they said they are rolling back to prev. TOS. When you have 150m people it is easy to get a bunch in an uproar and criple something is on the verge of finally making some money. Smart move to back off by FaceBook
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@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
19 Feb 09
no i haven't heard about it because i didn't spend much time in facebook... i don't really like to be in socialising site and i hardly visit the site even though i am a member there... i am also a member of friendster but i hardly visit it as well... but i think their TOS is wrong and it is against the privacy act... hopefully they will amend it soon... take care and have a nice day...
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
19 Feb 09
No, I did not here up until now. I have an account here that is very old.. I don't even use my Facebook account like that! This is against policy regulations! How can they allow our personal information to get into another persons hands and let alone eyesight?? This is very sad.. What is going on in this time and age??
@baileycows (3665)
• United States
18 Feb 09
I did not know this. Thank you for letting us know. I think I will go and cancel my account that is just not right.
• United States
18 Feb 09
Even if you cancel your account it will not matter your information will still be there in their data base for them to use as they see fit really read up on since you were signed up for it while this was in affect then they are allowed to use your personal information or pic!
@gracie04 (4549)
• Philippines
19 Feb 09
Really?!!! AWW!!! That's horrible.. now, i don't know if i'm going to delete my facebook account or not!
@mariposaman (2959)
• Canada
19 Feb 09
They say it was a mistake but I think they were trying to pull a fast one. However these TOS sometimes are not worth the paper they are written on. They can change the TOS anytime they want and consumers have little recourse. There is no guarantee that when a site is sold that the buyers are obligated to accept the TOS of the old owners. Just limit the amount of online stuff you give to these site. Unfortunately without personal information these sites are rather useless because that is what the sites are all about.
@ppkumar (22)
• India
19 Feb 09
hello, i do not have a facebook account but i was about to create one. i had heard that many people had problems with facebook's privacy policy.....but i didn't know what exactly the problem is......i think this is the issue.........thanks for sharing. even if i create a facebook account i don't think I'll place anything personal there....:-)
@clorissa123 (4926)
• United States
19 Feb 09
I never read those FAQ, but after read your comment, I certainly don't want my personal info divulge to thirty party whatsoever. That just not right. I rather not sign up with facebook, and take off my information from account.
• Philippines
19 Feb 09
really?! i don't really read the terms and conditions, though i know it is important haha, that is a bad thing if it is true, check out the terms and conditions for yourself before you do anything harsh =) i have a lot of friends hooked up to facebook so i also told them about this topic, thanks for sharing this =)
18 Feb 09
Hi sxrxnrr, I don't have a Face book and I think that is terrible that people can take things out of it. Tamara
@jlamela (4898)
• Philippines
18 Feb 09
What??is this true?good heavens, I have an account in facebook and I like it better than friendster, but what a heck!maybe I have to log in to my account now and read their terms and conditions. Thanks for this information.