Club409
The best damn waste of time!
omg the internets
mwinter
Total posts: 4317
2/20/2009 7:35 AM
yeh.. but you gotta take this in context. part of me wants to think that they're just making it explicit that facebook will be publishing your junk and if you remove it it might not be completely gone from their servers etc.
perhaps they could have worded their agreement a bit better and a little less "we own everything zomg"-ish.
i can't find the article right now but a similar EULA situation arose lately involving peer-to-peer distribution of streaming TV.. like the BBC or something has a new service where you can watch their shows but the client uses peer-to-peer stuff.. so if someone down the street from you is also watching you might get some of your content from his computer and vice versa. the end user license agreement states that while you're on there you can't use any kind of network probing / discovery / monitoring tools.
"Shenanigans!" you might say. but what would the license look like if they worded it in reasonable language? "Hey FYI.. while you're using our service your IP address may be exposed to other people also using this service because you're connecting to your peers.. and there's nothing we can do about it" ? I dunno. it's all a bunch of hooey anyway.
If you put something on Facebook it's out there and you can't necessarily take it back.
perhaps they could have worded their agreement a bit better and a little less "we own everything zomg"-ish.
i can't find the article right now but a similar EULA situation arose lately involving peer-to-peer distribution of streaming TV.. like the BBC or something has a new service where you can watch their shows but the client uses peer-to-peer stuff.. so if someone down the street from you is also watching you might get some of your content from his computer and vice versa. the end user license agreement states that while you're on there you can't use any kind of network probing / discovery / monitoring tools.
"Shenanigans!" you might say. but what would the license look like if they worded it in reasonable language? "Hey FYI.. while you're using our service your IP address may be exposed to other people also using this service because you're connecting to your peers.. and there's nothing we can do about it" ? I dunno. it's all a bunch of hooey anyway.
If you put something on Facebook it's out there and you can't necessarily take it back.
bhicks
Total posts: 68
2/20/2009 8:11 AM
If you put something on Facebook it's out there and you can't necessarily take it back.
I'm not necessarily worried about what I put on Facebook. I'm more worried about what someone else might put on there.
This happened when I was at VSU. We would get suspended from baseball games if our Athletic Director found a picture of an athlete with alcohol. I never uploaded photos but I was tagged in a bunch. So I was at a party and a kid behind me had a beer in his hand. Now i'm eligible to be suspended. It was horrible keeping constant surveilance over my "photos".
I'm not necessarily worried about what I put on Facebook. I'm more worried about what someone else might put on there.
This happened when I was at VSU. We would get suspended from baseball games if our Athletic Director found a picture of an athlete with alcohol. I never uploaded photos but I was tagged in a bunch. So I was at a party and a kid behind me had a beer in his hand. Now i'm eligible to be suspended. It was horrible keeping constant surveilance over my "photos".
mike
Total posts: 2298
2/21/2009 12:48 AM
i think they reversed the policy today?
mike
Total posts: 2298
2/21/2009 9:35 PM
mike
Total posts: 2298
2/22/2009 7:43 PM
mike
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2/27/2009 9:28 AM
Drew
Total posts: 5110
2/27/2009 5:24 PM
ezmac102
Total posts: 1045
3/2/2009 2:58 PM
mwinter
Total posts: 4317
3/2/2009 4:36 PM
i got like 6 of the awards pretty quickly and i partially figured out #'s 6 & 7 but i had to check the comments to
ezmac102
Total posts: 1045
3/3/2009 5:46 AM
did you forget to take off your pants? i definitely forgot that the first time....