Week 4 - Tutorial Task

I have chosen Facebook's Terms and Conditions to write about the below:
-what are the kinds of content they allow? 
-what can the service do with your content? 
-what guarantees of privacy do they offer?

Facebook's Term's & Conditions:
When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and
direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in
order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content
on the Site. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you
automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you
have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable,
perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide
license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly
perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in
whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any
purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion
thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into
other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize
sublicenses of the foregoing.
(http://www.broadstuff.com/archives/324-Facebook-Copyright-have-you-read-the-small-print.html)


 1. No responsibility of Facebook owner for your contents. It means, if you show any link, picture or any video in facebook, you will be responsible for this. Facebook owner has right to delete your content at any time.
2. You can not send or show any spam information on facebook.
3. Any body who is below 13, can not use facebook.
4. You can not break any copyright and if your contents are copied from any other site, your account in facebook may be disabled.
5. You will sell user data.
6. You have to follow the rules of video privacy protection act in facebook.
7. Anybody can not issue press notice relating to your relationship with facebook.
8. You can not transfer your account in facebook to third party.
9. You can not misrepresent your relationship with facebook to others.
10. You can not show share at facebook button at any site which violates facebook's term and conditions.
(http://www.svtuition.org/2010/10/facebook-terms-and-conditions.html)

-So as we can see above, the kinds of content Facebook allows can be pretty general in terms of everyday conversations. But it does mention that if any links/posts/content that go up that they do not approve of they have the right to delete them at anytime. This seems like a fairly reasonable condition though being that they do need to 'censor' the website.
-What is a little worrying is that in facebook's terms and conditions, when it comes to using our content after we have posted it, they have used words like 'copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute. This does make me a little nervous and apprehensive about posting photo's especially on facebook because for all I know, they could be using my photos for advertising, or in a very far out example, if I was to run for a seat in parliament or appear in court from some reason, what's to stop the media/opposition from coincidentally bringing these photo's up?? It's also rather amazing, in these type of situations what copious amounts of money can achieve.
-After doing a little bit of online research, I cannot seem to find that Facebook has any guarantee of privacy at all. It's basically what content you place on your 'page' you are then agreeing to share it with the public, whether that be your online friends or if facebook chooses to use your information in some other way, as outlined above.