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Facebook adopts new principles, asks for user feedback
So, what are these principles?
Well, in spite of the misstep toward owning user data, one of Facebook's new principles is that users own their own content. The others are equality (same terms for every user), free flow of information, freedom to share, no more arbitrary removal of accounts, and transparency about future plans and changes.
Comments are open now on these proposed principles, and on the corresponding new "rights and responsibiities" document.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Erik Sagen said 10:52PM on 2-26-2009
So Facebook has relented and now in their ToS state that we (as "users" of Facebook) own our content but they have the ability to control it? I guess the question is then, control it for what purposes?
This isn't at all surprising. It's just one of many things that make you go.. "Hmm."
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Jim K. said 7:52PM on 2-27-2009
That's what happens when you think like a Republican.
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laura_pearson said 8:46AM on 5-06-2009
What I don't understand is why the content that is placed on individual facebook pages are monitored, yet at the same time, it's okay that facebook PROVIDES "nude" content (applications) that can be sent to other facebook members.
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