logged onto my facebook page and went straight to the terms at the bottom of the page and started reading. What I found was while I have control and ownership of the content, by putting it on the site I give facebook permission to use or share that content with who ever they want. But I can limit their use by changing the privacy settings on my site.While I'm not a lawyer I'm not 100% on exactly what they can do with my content this did prompt me to go through and change all my privacy settings to limit the amount of outside access I have have. It also reassured my decision when I first started my facebook account to only have "friends" that were actually friends that I knew in the real world. This decision came from my 'myspace' experience, where it seemed the goal was to have as many friends as possible regardless of the fact if I had ever met the person. So I deleted that site ending my friendship with over a thousand people I had never met and started with Facebook.
From this lecture while I will continue to use Facebook I will think about what I put up and definitely will not be putting any future art up that I want to retain full control over. Now I'm off to look into who owns my email accounts.
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