Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You?

New York Magazine by Vanessa Grigoriadis | Apr. 8, 2009 (Special Report)
Trust is a fragile commodity.

Zuckerberg made a bold move, aligned with Facebook’s corporate image: He turned the site into a democracy. He decided to reinstate the former TOS, then released a new version a week later that took broad latitude to use our content while we were on the site but fell short of claiming ownership, and that Facebook revoked its rights to our content when we delete our accounts. This version was open for user comments until March 29. Facebook will release its ... Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Media
Topics: Social Networks, Privacy, Facebook
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Apr 7, 2009 - 6:26 PM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Apr 7, 2009 - 6:26 PM PDT

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 by Dale Penn - Apr. 8, 2009

Concise would be nice. In a world of 142 character tweets this 8 page dissertation is likely to lose many who start reading because it's about Facebook. I waded through, but frankly wished for a Reader's Digest version by about page 2. The author brings up interesting points, again and again.

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