Facebook.com is used by millions of people around the world. It is becoming more and more popular each day.
What people don't know is the potential dangers that lie within the user agreement that I'm sure 90% of Facebook's customers never even read.
As a customer of Facebook.com you completely give Facebook the rights to all material you upload and post on the site. This really includes EVERYTHING. It would be terrible to see a company like Facebook take your ideas that you posted to the site and profit on them and then you wouldn't see a cent.
Not only this, but also all your material that you post on the site is totally not private. Everything including messages to other individuals is the property of Facebook.com and can be released at any time without your approval because you waived those rights by clicking 'I Accept' on the user agreement.
This brings me to my next point...
I think in this new age of technology it has become almost second nature to accept user agreements on many websites and softwares.
Users need to become more aware of what it is they are agreeing to because that is no different than signing a contract. You wouldn't sign a contract without reading it would you?
Hopefully these scary facts about Facebook.com makes people more aware about what they are doing on the internet.
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