Facebook controversy
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Facbebook does an about face
the hugely popular social networking site
has always had the right to users content
within the sites terms of use
But Facebook recently made a critical change.
Caroline Macarthy of C-Net.
What it had done, was that it had deleted a sentence that said that
that license expired if you deleted your profile.
So in affect it mean that Facebook kept a license
on the content and on the content of your profile.
Photos you uploaded, videos you uploaded notes you wrote
anything on Facebook's domain, even if you deleted your Facebook profile
and that freaked a lot of people out.
The change was originally picked up by the consumerist blog
and quickly led to a fierce user backlash
So late Tuesday, founder Mark Zuckerburge posted this statement
saying that because of the feedback they received
Facebook has decided to return to their previous terms of use
while they resolve the issues people have raised.
preserving trust is a key for Facebook
and as of now they have it among younger users
according to research firm IDC 2/3 of users under 24
trust Facebook as an online brand
However, trust for that Site declined among older users
a problem because that is where Facebook is growing
Older users are more conservative about information stored online,
But Mcarthy warns users who worry about their Facebook privacy
may be naive about the realities of privacy today.
Privacy is a big deal on the web
However I think it is less of a big deal in Facebook's case
Than people make it out to be.
Um, you think of how many other companies have access to your
personal information, your E-mail provider, search engines
photo sharing sites, Facebook is absolutely not the only culprit out there
people would have to change a lot more than just delete their
Facebook profiles if they were concerned about Privacy
As for Facebook the site has now set up an official
Feedback forum for it's members who it says
now number more then 175 million
Conway Gittons, Reuters, NewYork