If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days then you wouldn’t know but Facebook earlier this week changed their Terms of Service (ToS) and the bottom line is ‘they own you’.
Really? Well, yes and no. In their change of ToS they decided to state that they are able to use any content you inputted on their site. This can range from photos, blogs, comments, shared links, etc. They would have free range of your content. So, basically they would own you.
This didn’t go over to those who actually read over the ToS and demanded change. In less than 72 hours the ToS was being ‘reevaluated’ which means, “We screwed up and we’re going to fix it.”
What does this tell a business out there? Well, quite simply like the title of this post stats, when people talk businesses better listen. PERIOD. In this technology advanced world making changes online can happen rather quickly and in all honesty need to just to be able to adapt to ever-changing networks that are out there.
This set-up was very similar to when Google’s Chrome was released and their ToS were pretty much the same. I think it is safe to say that people are coming to realization that want their content and want to keep that way – no matter what.
What say you?