I have decided that for my next portfolio I want to look at and write about the new Terms of Services of Facebook. As a college student with Facebook, I think the new terms of service impact us all. According to Facebook and the new TOS, the site can own your information and do whatever it wants with it, even if you delete your account. This opens up the possibility that Facebook can use anything you have on the website for commercial gain.
After the Michael Phelps incident as of late, this is scary to think about. There may be a couple pictures on Facebook that if I become famous someday, I would not exactly like Facebook to be able to sell them out to the highest bidder. I have always been weary about Facebook and the photos that I have on there, but this now becomes a legitimate fear for anyone on the site. According to the site, even detagged photos and deleted messages are still part of Facebook forever and the company has ownership of everything. This seems crazy, and I will be very interested in learning more about this through the next five weeks!
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