Monday, November 15, 2010

Privacy Terms

Privacy is something hard to come by on the web. Especially considering much of the time spent on the web is on social networking sites. Sites like these encourage those using them to post any and everything about their life. Its part of the experience and fun of having a Facebook or Twitter account. With the increased amount of traffic to these social networking sites it no doubt becomes extremely hard to keep track of everything everyone post. This is most likely why Facebook has now changed its policy to saying that they own and can do anything with the content you post on their site. And while I want privacy just as much as the next person, and I want to keep my personal stuff to myself I can understand why Facebook has made this policy. At the end of the day Facebook is the one creating the site that you want to go on and once you put something on Facebook its like giving a photo to someone of yourself. They have every right to take that photo and do whatever they wish with it. Just like once you post something they have every right to take that photo and do whatever the want to with it. I think its hard to criticize new policy which states that they own everything you post forever. Because they are really looking out for themselves in case some type of legal case is thrown at them. However I do think that people should be careful about posting their own work on Facebook just as a precaution.

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