Think before you sign up!

Recently, a Facebook craze has hit the nation. Everyone loves staying in touch with their friends, and what better way to stay in touch than on a safe, user-friendly service like Facebook? If you thought that, you were wrong. FOX News had a new article today telling you what exactly you are signing up for when you sign up for a Facebook. Apparently, when you sign up, you agree to the Terms of Service. What most people do not know is that the Terms of Service state that the company is granted "an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or ... (ii) enable a user to Post." If you don't understand that, then this means that basically anything you post on your Facebook, the company has a right to use. Without your permission. Scary, huh? This shows us that we need to read EVERYTHING before signing up for something. We also need to make sure we don't post anything we would regret later on a social networking site. So many times, people post without thinking and end up regretting it. Our society has become so numb to Internet predators, pornography, cyber-bullying, etc. that we are putting our lives and the people we love in danger. We need to be careful and take steps to ensure the safety of the people we love.

--Katie