Facebook owns you!! That’s right.  Everything you’ve ever put on Facebook can be used by Facebook however they please.  Think by closing your account everything will go away?  Wrong.  It’s now property of Facebook FOREVER!!

On February 4th, Facebook updated its Terms of Service (TOS) to basically take away any rights you have to any content you’ve added to Facebook or any other information you’ve provided them.  Consumerist.com has a nice write up on the changes to the TOS and it looks like Facebook may have a growing backlash to the changes they’ve made.  Twitter is a buzz (or should I say a tweeting) about the topic and over on Digg, the consumerist.com article is one of the most digged articles in the last 24 hours.  There is also a Facebook group that has formed and is exploding with new members. 

It will be interesting to see if Facebook listens to its users whom they depend on for success or ignore the growing backlash and keep the changes to their TOS.  One thing is for certain…now you never really know for sure what’s going to happen with your content once you’ve uploaded it to your Facebook profile.     

So, the next time you’re about to upload new pictures, videos, or other content – take a second and think if it’s really something you want to make available now and more importantly, forever!

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