What can I say after reading Amanda French’s blog (2009) comparing the Facebook terms of service to those of other social media sites? Well, to be honest, while I like to think of myself as being quite ‘in the know’ and not at all naive, this blog, in conjunction with Adam’s lecture today, has alarmed me a little.
I have to admit that I am one of those people that scrolls through to the bottom of the terms of service with EVERYTHING and just clicks ‘I AGREE’ without having a clue what any of it said. Obviously I am INCREDIBLY naive in my previous thoughts that the terms of service would all be above board and to my liking; “Oh, everyone has an account here! There can’t be anything untoward happening! I am just going to blindly agree to whatever they are doing! Yippee!”. Yes, that is me speaking..
While I know that I won’t spend hours combing through every details of terms of service in the future, I know that I won’t be so ignorant. A skim of the contents is better than my previous actions, right? I guess the attention I pay will really depend on what the site is and what content I will be posting on it, if it is anything of significance, such as photos etc, I will be sure to pay close attention to the terms of service. And I am now also going to make sure all of my friends do too. The personal things that Facebook have access to and/or own is appalling, not to mention scary.
References
French, A. (2009, February 16). Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter. Retrieved January 23, 2011, from amandafrench.net: http://amandafrench.net/2009/02/16/facebook-terms-of-service-compared/
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