What may have seemed to Facebook execs like a run-of-the-mill revision to the company’s Terms of Service agreement grew into controversy over the weekend, and on Monday CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to scramble to reassure users that the content that they post — photos, videos and text — belongs to and is controlled by them, not the social networking Web site. The brouhaha in the blogosphere appears to have begun after a post on The Consumerist by Chris Walters, who excoriated the social networking site for changes it made to its TOS on Feb. 4.
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Facebook TOS Content Use Verbiage Vexes Users
Posted by: Walaika Haskins February 17, 2009 11:47 AMWhat may have seemed to Facebook execs like a run-of-the-mill revision to the company’s Terms of Service agreement grew into controversy over the weekend, and on Monday CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to scramble to reassure users that the content that they post — photos, videos and text — belongs to and is controlled by them, not the social networking Web site. The brouhaha in the blogosphere appears to have begun after a post on The Consumerist by Chris Walters, who excoriated the social networking site for changes it made to its TOS on Feb. 4.