facebook term of use (tos)

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Facebook Term of Use (TOS)

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facebook is...

 Facebook is a free global social networking website that is operated and privately own by Facebook, Inc.

  In 2004 Mark Zuckerberg found Facebook with his friends

 The first users were Harvard University students

 And now, it can used by anyone over 13

 More than 750 million active users

facebook: Key features

• Create a personal profile • Add other users as friends • Exchange messages • Upload photos • Tag photos • Share videos • Commenting on users wall, pictures, videos and status • Chat room for online users

Facebook Privacy Policy is important read it before you use it to help make informed decisions

Privacy Policy

  Information they receive

 Sharing information on Facebook

  Information users share with third parties

 How they use user’s information

 How user can change or remove information

 How they protect information

Sharing Your Content and Information

• Can control who can view the information and give feedback • Facebook and other users can used your photos and videos • May share the information and applications with others

Safety, Registration and Account Security

 No bully, intimidare or harass other user

 No uploading photos or videos can be pornographic, hateful, threatening, violence, nudity

 No false personal information

 No user can be under 13 or convicted sex offender

 No sharing password

Protecting Other People's Rights

• tools to help you protect your intellectual property rights • Can not use the facebook copyrights or trademarks • Can not post anyone’s identification or financial information • Facebook has the right to remove inappropriate contents

facebook: Mobile

 Free mobile services

 Still need to pay for text messaging fees

 Need to inform facebook once the user change or deactive user’s mobile telephone number

 Sync information and user’s contact lists

Amendments

 Notice user when facebook change the Statement

 Minimum 3 days notice  Payments and Deals

 Special Provisions Applicable to Share Links  Special Provisions Applicable to Developers/

Operators of Applications and Websites

 Minimum 7 days notice of all other changes

Adverts + Social context

 Can click “like” button on an advertisement or advertiser’s Facebook pages

 Allow businesses show up in your News Feed

 Show user social actions

  If the adverts have user ID, they can directly send it to the user

Reference Lists

  http://www.facebook.com/terms.php#

  http://www.tosback.org/version.php?vid=1691

  http://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy

  http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/advertising#sponsoredstories

  http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/facebook-facelifts-its-privacy-policy/

  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/technology/personaltech/13basics.html