Punk-Ass Book Jockey

Hey guys,

If you use FaceBook, please go vote on their TOS. They've revised them over the past few months, with an advisory board made of users, and now they're asking people to vote on the new TOS vs the old 2008 TOS.

Here's the Consumerist talking about it, and here's the actual FaceBook voting page.

Frankly, FaceBook has been a big pain in my ass, but remember how MySpace had that clause that they have legal rights to anything you posted? That was sucky. It shouldn't happen again, and the only way it won't happen again is if we pay attention to TOS docs on the social networks we use.

ETA: In fact, that very thing seems to have been a point in the revised FaceBook TOS. A paragraph of note in the revised TOS docs:

A number of our users, and organizations such as the Association of Photographers and the British Association of Picture Libraries, were concerned that we were asserting ownership of their content, and wanted to better understand the scope of the license grant they were giving to us. In particular, some users felt that the license enables us to do whatever we want with their content. In our latest version, we try to make it clear that you continue to own your content, and that we have only asked for those rights that we need to provide our services and features. To that end, the license is no longer irrevocable or perpetual; the license now ends when a user deletes their content or their account. In addition, we give users control over their content by making it subject to their Privacy Settings. This means, for example, that if you set your Privacy Settings so that only your friends can see a photo, we cannot show that photo to anyone but your friends.