Tag: FACEBOOK TERMS OF SERVICE

Share The whining and gnashing of teeth that immediately greet any changes to Facebook have become a cliched social networking punchline. The site, though, is currently being hammered over very real and pertinent concerns that go far beyond mere member tempter-tantrums. The brouhaha began early last year when Facebook implemented, and then almost immediately retracted, new Terms of Service ...

Recently, Facebook banned pictures of a woman showing her mastectomy scars, calling the images "sexual and abusive." For anyone who has seen these pictures, those are not words they inspire. However, Facebook has taken back its original ban and apologized to Sharon Adams, the poster of the pictures and breast cancer survivor. After the original decision was made, hundreds of users in the U.K. ...

With Facebook's meteoric rise in membership and popularity, the site has been forced to not only tinker with its Terms of Service, but to also address salacious, insulting and otherwise inappropriate messages and pictures. People over the age of 30 have been flocking to the site, and, in order to appeal to this contingent as well as the original audience of college students, administrators are ...

According to Facebook's oft-criticized Terms of Service (TOS), members are not allowed to "post content that is hateful, threatening, pornographic or that contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence." After changing its original TOS in February, and then quickly switching back after a mild public uproar, Facebook means to prove that its new-old TOS are to be taken seriously. According to ...

Yesterday, Facebook ruffled the feathers on many of its users by issuing a new Terms of Service, or TOS, which some believed gave the site permission to use any content -- profiles, status updates, commentary -- posted on the site perpetually (even if Facebook members deleted their profiles and left the site). Facing a PR backlash of epic proportions, Facebook has now rather publicly reverted to ...