This document summarizes key points from Facebook's terms of service for older users joining the social media platform. It outlines that while users own and can share their own information as they choose, Facebook retains rights to use any photos or videos posted. It also warns that all posts and comments could be publicly visible depending on privacy settings. The summary stresses regularly checking privacy settings as they may change with Facebook updates. It recommends creating a private family group for tighter control over sharing and visibility.

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Terms of
Service
NET303
Policy Primer
Susan Appleton

2. So you’ve been told that you have to get onto
Facebook because that’s where all the latest
family snaps are!
But whilst you prefer email or telephone your Gen
Y kids prefer the immediacy of Facebook!
(Westlake, 2008)
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pictures/

3. Newspapers are also
telling you that once
you “get a taste of
high-speed access,
they often come to rely
on the internet as an
everyday utility in their
lives.” (Madden, 2010)
Which is all well and good your thinking, but what
about privacy issues? You want to know what
you’re signing up for.

4. But to get you started here are a few facts
from Facebook’s Terms of Service or TOC.
Facebook likes to promote “openness and
transparency by giving individuals greater
power to share and connect.” (Facebook 2012)
YOU own your information and can share it
with who ever you want too. YOU can also
remove it and take it anywhere you
want.(Facebook 2012)

5. Facebook encourage you to read their
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
They ask you to help them keep Facebook
safe and they don’t guarantee your safety.
have a Data Use Policy

6. Facebook are happy for you to participate as
LITTLE or as MUCH as you like.
Facebook’s service “should transcend
geographic and national boundaries and be
available to everyone in the world.”
(Facebook 2012)

7. HOWEVER, whenever you post a photo
or video you are AGREEING to
Facebook having “a non-exclusive,
transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free,
worldwide license” to use this content.
(Facebook 2012)
If and when you delete this content, it
will still show up if you have shared it
with others and will still be there until
THEY
delete it. (Facebook 2012)

8. Facebook’s TOS has
SAFETY WARNINGS
about bullying, spam
and other nasty stuff
that includes hate
speech, nudity, porn and
violence. (Facebook
2012)
You can’t do any of that stuff and
you can REPORT to Facebook if
you see anything you deem to
be offensive.

9. Facebook gets information from
other devices that you use to
access Facebook e.g. mobile
phones.
“For example, we may get your
GPS or other location information so
we can tell you if any of your friends
are nearby.” (Facebook 2012)

10. If you don’t want
your age or birth
date out there,
you can choose
not to make it
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public.
“Your name, profile pictures, cover photos,
gender, networks, username and User ID
are treated just like information you choose
to make public.” (Facebook 2012)

11. When you post a comment, photo or video you can
choose to make it public, friends or custom.
(Facebook 2012)

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If you don’t want anybody knowing what you
think about an issue, remember that if you
COMMENT on somebody else’s post and
they make it public, EVERYBODY will see
your comment. (Facebook 2012)

13. “The real privacy
concerns arise when
users allow people
they do not know and
normally would not
trust to have access
to the personally
identifiable
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information they have
made available.”
Goettke, R., &
Christiana, J. (2007)

15. Facebook also collect data EVERY
TIME you interact on Facebook, “such
as when you look at another person's
timeline, send or receive a message,
search for a friend or a Page, click on,
view or otherwise interact with things.”
(Facebook 2012)

16. This makes the privacy and
application settings an important page
on Facebook.
REMEMBER that Facebook do and
will change the settings back to their
DEFAULT mode when they update,
so check back regularly.

17. Once you have
joined Facebook
maybe think about http://www.flickr.com/groups/pets_community/
making a family or
friend Facebook
Group. You have
control over who
sees, comments and
views your content.

18. The TOC for Groups are the same as your
regular Facebook page and you have control
over who sees the content put on the groups
page depending on whether you make it public or
private.

19. Facebook can be a fantastic cheap and easy
way to keep up with what’s going on in your
families lives and catching up with people you
haven’t seen in forever!
Just remember to keep up to date with the
changes Facebook make to their Terms of
Service.

20. REFERENCES:
Facebook (2012) Facebook Terms of Service Retrieved 9 October 2012 from:
https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
Facebook (2012) Facebook Privacy Policy. Retrieved 12 October 2012 from:
https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy
Facebook (2012) Facebook Data Use Policy. Retrieved 10 October 2012 from:
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Goettke, R., & Christiana, J. (2007). Privacy and Online Social Networking
Websites. Computer Science 199r: Special Topics in Computer Science
Computation and Society: Privacy and Technology.
Available: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs199r/fp/RichJoe.pdf
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Westlake, E.J. (2008), Vol. 52, No. 4 (T200) Friend Me if You Facebook: Generation Y
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Madden, M (2010). Retrieved 12 October 2012 from:
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Media/Report/Implications.aspx