Have you ever considered deleting your Facebook account, if you haven't done that yet? What would be the reasons to leave it behind?
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After the recent Facebook issues I took look at the whole situation from a fresh perspective. It got me thinking about how this problem was too big to understand all at once. So maybe if I took a look at it from just one viewing point at a time, then I'll get a better understanding about whether to trust Facebook or not.
So I started digging about just one thing - Pictures and Videos. What happens to your pictures and video content that you put on the Facebook. Take a look at the part of terms and services pertaining to the pictures and videos:
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings:you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand thatremoved content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time(but will not be available to others).
Notice the areas in text with a different font. Those tiny little phrases can effectively change the whole case if you ever decided to take Facebook to the court for stolen pictures.
Non-exclusive: This means that while you can sell your picture, post it on other websites, or gift it away but at the same time Facebook can also do the same. Keep in mind if you have a picture you want to sell but you posted it on Facebook then a buyer comes along who wants to buy that picture. If that buyer wants exclusive rights to that picture then forget about selling it since you have already given non-exclusive rights to Facebook.
Transferable: Facebook can transfer the rights it has over your picture/video to another party of it's choosing
Sub-licensable: They can sub-license your picture/video or the their rights to another party
royalty-free:They do no owe you any royalty from what they earn after using your pictures/video
Worldwide license: They can do all of the above in the whole wide world
Now also remember that removing/deleting the pictures from your account doesn't mean much as they will be stored in Facebook's database for who knows how long. People claim that you can choose your privacy settings. They should bear in mind it is the privacy from viewing and not from Facebook
Personally I might delete the account but I will think twice about uploading anything that is worth something. That being said I agree that Facebook can have a certain usefulness but its not for me. I actually can find a use for Twitter rather than Facebook.....
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I suspected this a while back and it is the main reason I have not posted a picture in years. I have been seriously thinking of deleting my Facebook ever since joining #STEEM but it unfortunately holds the only line of communication I have with some childhood friends and family. I have been able to convert 2-3 of them over as some, especially older family members, do not understand the blockchain concept. Most have said that they only use Facebook due to the mobile app capabilities which are superior than those available to #STEEM users. One, who is trying #STEEM out has recently tried the @partiko app and is speaking well about it so I need to check it out. Time is definitely arriving to #deletefacebook!
I would say that Facebook has some uses that people need for marketing and advertisement and promoting their stuff in their circles but I always thought twitter seemed to be a better choice for doing that. I myself never really had a FB account .........
On the other hand I also wonder what I would do with it when I can actually get paid for my time here on the Steem blockchain. In fact I just might make a twitter account to just promote our beloved Steem ;-)
I decided to leave Facebook after it put me in timeout for writing an article about Obama and Clinton invovment in arms sales in Yemen and sales of nuclear material to Russia back in 2011 ish..... I knew about the issues with copywriter years ago after FB bought Instagram which tried to implement the same control over publishers material.
I think this has been a major issue with the centralized social media landscape. Censorship problems are plaguing every single of them. Most people have migrated to decentralized platforms like the ones on the Steem blockchain and I think sooner or later this is going to be an emerging trend.
People talk about mass adoption of cryptocurrencies but I think before that happens, the masses will first adopt decentralized social media platforms, before they adopt the crypto tokens.
I hope social media can be used to share information we can use to grow a healthy society. Unfortunately, it is now being used as mass surveillance and propaganda program. I also read an article that Google is making a deal with Mastercard regarding sharing customer's data Mastercard and Google's potential data deal tests privacy policies
I don't know if cryptocurrency can survive the fight with the centralized banking industry. Too big to fail banks and the governments they serve or maybe governments serve the banks (dunno) don't want their best money laundering service to go under...the governments are the biggest money launders in the world (Military, just think of the TV show Ozark), it's a battle that's already going on! Look what happened to Bitcoin when it entered the futures market.
I would agree that modern day social media is collaborator in this conspiracy. I am pretty sure that they are completely aware of their role in it but whether they are willing participants or not............ only history would tell.
My stance on them has softened a bit over the past couple of months. I am a die hard 'ignorer' of Social media. Never liked it and never trusted it. But in the past few years I have some to grudgingly accept their power over the masses. But lately I have realized that they are such a huge machine that even if we use it promote decentralized media, they wouldn't care.
It's like nurturing the baby from the womb of the enemy, until this baby is strong enough to live on its own. Then it's up to us raise the baby of 'decentralized thinking' until its big enough to slay the Goliath.
Ugh - Facebook! I once deactivated my account but not delete it because I have some work related pages I manage. Once I logged into those work pages Facebook automatically ACTIVATED my personal Facebook profile again! So I now simply want to detach my professional from my private account and see if I can finally get rid of it. Because yes, it's time to leave... For years already.
I have never really had a FB account. I made an anonymous account to catch some crypto airdrops but never put any personal info there or anything meaningful. Nevertheless those accounts are probably defunct by now....
But I can see that how these 'loose ends' can be a source of irritation.....
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It is, isn't it....
We just agree to the T&C without reading them...... I know that I did up until a few years ago