Before I consider this Facebook issue closed, I want to bring you a couple late breaking items.
First, one of my blogger friends, Patrick Neeman, on his blog UsabilityCounts, makes what to me is an incredible discovery. He takes a closer look at the Consumerist’s Terms of Service agreement. The Consumerist, if you remember, was one of the sites expressing the most outrage over this whole flap. I don’t want to give his nice post away, but let’s just say it turns out that the Consumerist owns all your stuff, too.
Second, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gave what I consider a reasonable and accurate statement in regards to Facebook’s position in the whole fiasco.
Call me an apologist if you must, but the bottom line here is that this has all been a good lesson for you the internet user. If you are worried about what becomes of what you post on the internet, you need to be more proactive about where you post it, and read, ok, at least skim, those terms of service agreements, because, the legal merits of them aside, you must assume you are bound by them by using the software. Whether you agree with them or not.
