Facebook Can Get You Fired, Dumped, And Yes, Evicted

Don't be surprised if one day it happen to you! The article with this title is written by Stan Schroeder. Check out at http://mashable.com/2009/04/14/facebook-evicted/.

Facebook Owns Your Photos

For all who have never actually read the Terms of Use for Facebook, they have changed their policies to allow them to own all content you (facebook user) upload.

Now even if you take down pictures from that time you got drunk with the guys, Facebook owns those pictures in their servers and can retrieve them whenever. Even if this may seem minor, this information is ours, it is private, it is not for Facebook. Facebook runs off of membership, exploiting the trust of its members will run it down to the ground, something many users would prefer not to see, considering it is a useful program to keep in touch. Facebook would not lose anything legally or monetarily from not owning its user's photos.

If you have a Facebook account, join the group 100,000,000 Against Facebook Owning Its User's Photos!

I facebook therefore I am... Safe?

Needless to say, facebook is a social network utility. Everybody knows that bit. If you don’t facebook you don’t exist. I know you’d say that’s taking things to the extreme.... Let’s put it this way - if you don’t facebook you miss a lot of the current, up-to-date extreme fun & interaction. Don’t you? And therefore you’re a bit ‘less’ social. And less fun. Friends can’t buy you, can’t sell you...they can’t poke you, rank you, comment at your silly status...and can’t scan through all your photos and giggle... (yes, they giggle!!!)

I started to facebook a while ago. Got too many calls and e-mails from offended friends with pending invitation. To be honest, I wasn’t keen to be on facebook after my Hi5 delirious experience. Apparently all my friends regardless of age, sex or orientation got a private message from me saying: ‘Hey Sexy! I’ve been thinking about you. I fancy you and really want to invite you over. Let me know! ’

And guess what?!?! They did let me know!!! Big time!!!

Security breach? Bad joke? Don’t know what it was but caused me months of embarrassment. At that time everybody thought that if you have an antivirus everything it’s safe. And a social network was heaven on earth... Errr, I mean heaven online! Something like that just couldn’t happen and I should admit my sinful desire of dating the whole list.

It’s very interesting how people can get very paranoid about their computers... But when they trust something. They do it fulltime! And now they trust facebook - otherwise they wouldn’t share their entire life story in there.

Just think about how easy it is to spy on a facebooker. It gives me goose-bumps!!