Facebook owns you (1 Viewer)

[katie tully]

Facebook: All Your Stuff Is Ours, Even If You Quit

The TOS says the following:
You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.

lol what

 

[savio23q]

Meh, they got nothing on me.

 

[katie tully]

Nothing new.

So you're okay with Facebook owning your images and selling them for a profit?

 

[katie tully]

1. Get really drunk and make a dick of yourself
2. Put pictures on FB for lulz
3. ???
4. Profit

 

[boris]

uh oh spaghetti-o

 

[x.christina]

OOOO shit motherfucker I knew facebook was bad.

 

[JonathanM]

This just came up on my homepage, so I figure yall would already know, but whatevs.

I wonder if this means any information/photos uploaded during the 2 week period that the Terms of Use were changed are considered as being under the new ToS or the old one.

 

[tehpyro]

Deleting my account now

They've already stored all of your crapz, so you may as well keep it.