Week 4 - Tutorial Task

Facebook and how it owns you:

I believe that Facebook wants to help you keep your privacy, as they allow you to choose who see's your posts, who can view your pictures and who can contact you.  However they say nothing about deleting your information, status' etc. after you delete the account. According to Amanda French's article on Facebook's Terms of Service; they leave out the lines in the terms and conditions that say they delete all information once it is deactivated. (Amanda, 2009). French also mentions that if you apply a link or widget to your page, Facebook takes it as an agreement to a whole lot of other claims on the content of your page. 

Facebook allows a lot of different content but will allow you to change your own preferences to seeing or not seeing particular things. For example; if you set your preferences to "do not show coarse language", it will hide other peoples coarse words with asterisks. Facebook also stops you from annoying a person, page or group too much if they find you interacting with their wall too much. First they will delete comments you make on that page, then they will send a pop up saying you have been banned from all commenting for a certain period of time. Facebook also sends you a warning when you are doing something wrong before they straight out Ban you.

French, A 2009, “Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter”, Wordpress.com.

viewed 12th august 2011.

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