Tag: TERMS OF SERVICE

Share Whatever 2010 holds for Facebook, it's going to have a hard time competing with 2009. The social networking site truly exploded into the mainstream this year -- and suffered some growing pains along the way. As the new year approaches, we take a look at some of the biggest Facebook moments of 2009, and how those instances defined the way the '00s will be remembered. Read on. ...

In case you didn't know, Facebook demands that you use your real name to create a profile. In the past, plenty of folks, including us, have managed to get around that rule. Now, though, Facebook has started cracking down on people using fake-sounding names. If your real name sounds fake, watch out. You could be shut out of the site. According to Fox News, Atlanta jewelry designer Alicia ...

After inciting an uproar with some rather draconian revisions to its terms of service (TOS), Facebook accepted defeat and retracted the new policies. (The controversial policies, which lasted all of a day or two, gave it ownership of all content posted on the site, including photos and personal information.) Now Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has pledged via blog post to take ...

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 ...

We haven't seen any numbers confirming this yet, but we're pretty sure people are flocking to eBay to sell whatever they have laying around in order to supplement their income during the recession. However it is important to realize that while that 1st gen iPhone may be a good way to line your pockets with a little extra dough you can't auction off just anything on eBay. eBay has some pretty ...