SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Facebook Inc. is encouraging other companies to sell products and create software for use on the popular social networking site, hoping to expand into an all-purpose destination on the Web....
Hm, I really don't like Facebook's terms, so I haven't bothered to register there at all...
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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.
Yes, it is true that we gave up our rights on certain stuff that we posted on facebook. However, this is the same across many sites, ranging from picture sharing to artwork posting.
It is quite surprising to me that you actually DO read through the terms and conditions.
It is quite surprising to me that you actually DO read through the terms and conditions.
I always read those...
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Yes, it is true that we gave up our rights on certain stuff that we posted on facebook
It's not just certain stuff, but actually all stuff uploaded and posted there.
And what makes their terms a bit different from most other similar sites is that they still have rights to keep copies/backups of everything even if you've deleted it or closed your account...
I've always found Facebook to be much nicer than MySpace. MySpace allows members to make such ridiculous looking pages whereas Facebook keeps things plain and simple, cleaner overall.
I'm planning to look into both of them more in the next couple of weeks, but my impression is that Facebook has made up a lot of ground in a short period of time.
I have a friend who's pretty active with Myspace and he's been happy with the networking possibilities there for his reggae music.
