Facebook, and their ToS
Jul. 18th, 2009 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumA year ago I wrote about the Facebook ToS.
I did, eventually, cave in and set up an account. It has, for what it's good for, been worth it. What I don't use it for is photos, nor original content (it has a "notes" area, which is sort of like a blog, and I've linked comments at HuffPo, and other such to my account, but nothing else which wasn't specific to a Facebook app).
People told me I was worrying too much. That Facebook wasn't going to actually take people's photos a make money off of them.
Right.
Facebook uses user photos for singles ads.
They say it's an opt-out program (already they lose points), but the plain fact of the matter is you can opt out, and they are free to ignore it. From other things I've read, if you authorise an RSS feed to link to your blog/flickr/etc., Facebook (to save time) pulls a copy of the articles/post/photos, to their servers.
Which would mean they own it.
I did, eventually, cave in and set up an account. It has, for what it's good for, been worth it. What I don't use it for is photos, nor original content (it has a "notes" area, which is sort of like a blog, and I've linked comments at HuffPo, and other such to my account, but nothing else which wasn't specific to a Facebook app).
People told me I was worrying too much. That Facebook wasn't going to actually take people's photos a make money off of them.
Right.
Facebook uses user photos for singles ads.
They say it's an opt-out program (already they lose points), but the plain fact of the matter is you can opt out, and they are free to ignore it. From other things I've read, if you authorise an RSS feed to link to your blog/flickr/etc., Facebook (to save time) pulls a copy of the articles/post/photos, to their servers.
Which would mean they own it.
