Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I am Getting Weary of Facebook: UPDATE

Not for the relationships, status updates or pictures. For the terms of service. The CEO and founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote a lengthy post explaining the change to the terms of service (which, as of February 4th, binds your shared information, forever, to Facebook). He writes:
In reality, we wouldn't share your information in a way you wouldn't want. The trust you place in us as a safe place to share information is the most important part of what makes Facebook work. Our goal is to build great products and to communicate clearly to help people share more information in this trusted environment.
"In reality"? That isn't very reassuring. In reality, they will always do what is best for Facebook, not the consumer.

Sigh. Time to abandon ship?

UPDATE:

I guess FB has changed their minds:
Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.

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