WARNING: FACEBOOK WILL OWN YOU

Combat squirrel said:
Interesting, did you know facebook own anything you put on there? So if you take a nice pic of a landscape say, and post it on facebook, you no longer own the rights to the pic ? Just to warn everyone incase you see your pic on a magazine cover and you dont get any money for it

This is just one situation of not owning what you post on there
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Have you got your tin-foil hat on?

You don't lose any rights or ownership, it's not an exclusive licence. You simply grant a very wide set of rights to facebook to display and distribute your content i.e. allowing them to display your content globally to other users. This does, however, also include the rights to use it in advertising, create derivative works and so on.

So, yes, you could potentially discover your photos on a magazine cover without receiving compensation, but it doesn't stop you doing the same yourself.

As for third-party content, like photos displayed through a Flickr application, this content retains the same rights with which it was licenced originally and is not 'user content'.

Facebook Terms said:
When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.
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The amount of people who use it at work is incredible (me included). It is now the most visited site by people here. I might change the category to tasteless so nobody can visit it muhahahha :D
 
Whats so good about facebook?

I use myspace just for the music, its great for finding new bands and seeing when they are touring and what they are up to.
 
This is one of my friends profile...it upsets me greatly..she may not be my friend for much longer:

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her actual profile page is about 8 times the length of this. :(
 
Once you have looked up all your ex's & wannabe girlfriends from the past the novelty wears off.

Also I agree the apps kinda ruin it although it appears its mainly teenage girls that install 100 apps*



*not that I look at teenage girls on facebook I might add ;)
 
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i used to be on hi5 ages ago (just cos a lot of my friends are/were).. and now the only thing i'm on is facebook. yes, wehn i first joined it was pretty addictive, and at some times it still is..

but i definitely believe that APPS HAVE RUINED IT!
 
am already addicted to wandering around myspace , mates keep joining facebook but ive resisted it so far

mainly only use myspace for music or too send mates embarasing pictures to there profile :o
 
andy said:
am already addicted to wandering around myspace , mates keep joining facebook but ive resisted it so far

mainly only use myspace for music or too send mates embarasing pictures to there profile :o
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Facebook is the best for pictures, you tag them in there and they appear on their profile :D Get it now!
 
Don't see why FB would own me. I went on there today out of curiosity and founds scores of people I used to know. Wouldn't be interested in talking to them again though.
 
I don't use it because I don't know anyone else that uses it, so it's pretty pointless.

I really don't get the addictiveness, if I signed up I'm sure ..nothing would change, i'd just have a page? and......uh, then what? :P
 
I was same as OP hated social networking sites but fell for facebook as uni snowsports trip pics were on it etc. I'm far from addited though, go on max once a day for 5-10mins

I agree about apps ruining it, I have 0 apps on my page, although I can understand that for many people it is a selling point, personally as a compromise I would limit the number of applications a profile can have to say 5.
 
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