One of the most talked about texts on the Internet in the past few weeks was the one concerning the jargon on the most popular and largest social network, Facebook. Even if the documents lacks in reasons, it has still been the center of attention.
Facebook’s company, Palo Alto from California, started to revise its terms of use in February. These terms are the one which rule over the way that more than 175 million people use their accounts on the Web site. Still, the administrators of the site didn’t make these terms obvious for every user, so its effects couldn’t be seen immediately.
On the other hand, some Facebook users started to hate the terms of the deal because they didn’t understand what Facebook would do with the words, pictures and other content posted on the site by the ones who closed their accounts. Still, the text allows the Web site a fully paid and worldwide license to copy, use, publish, store, retain, transmit, scan, edit, translate and distribute things that users post on Facebook only if they have the privacy settings.
"We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever,” the Consumerist blog posted, as a summary of the terms. Some users thought that Facebook gained the right to resell whatever they would post on the site and said that they would close their accounts. In the end, the tens of thousands of users hired one of the site’s most popular features to shout their disagreement and set up a protest against Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, tried to stop all the protests and posted a message explaining that the terms don’t mean what the users had understood. He added that these changes are just a minor bookkeeping adjustment. "In reality, we wouldn't share your information in a way you wouldn't want," Zuckerberg wrote.