Facebook Membership Forever?

I knew I shouldn’t have let everyone talk me into a damn facebook account. I am glad I don’t post there that often!! I highlighted my favorite parts of the article  in red. Why the hell would they even change it to include that? I would normally think, oh no big deal, they wouldn’t really use our pictures and words. But then, why change it to say that they can? Fishy. That is all I am going to say.

Now all you women that advocated to put up your breastfeeding photos  on Facebook should remove them. You may end up as the next Facebook Anti-Breastfeeding Campaign Spokeswoman.

~Trisha

Check this out: Facebook Membership Forever.

Taken from FoxNews:

“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.”

In other words, while it doesn’t actually own your photos, scribblings and status updates — you do — Facebook can do whatever it wants with it, whenever it wants, in order to promote itself or create or sell ads.

Theoretically, it can even “license” a picture of your kids for use in a third party’s ad campaign.

What’s been removed is this: “If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however (sic) you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.”

And what’s been added is this: “The following sections will survive any termination of your use of the Facebook Service” — after which follows a list of most of the sections on the Terms of Service page.

So even if you decide Facebook isn’t for you, the site can still use anything you posted. It’s all been archived.