2/16/09

Increase in Older Facebook Users and Everyone is Asking Who Owns the Content?

We are using Facebook more now and so are our friends and relatives.

So here are two timely Facebook articles:
Time Magazine. Technoculture. Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies
By Lev Grossman

Facebook is five. Maybe you didn't get it in your news feed, but it was in February 2004 that Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, along with some classmates, launched the social network that ate the world. Did he realize back then in his dorm that he was witnessing merely the larval stage of his creation? For what began with college students has found its fullest, richest expression with us, the middle-aged. Here are 10 reasons Facebook is for old fogies...more...

NY Times: Facebook’s Users Ask Who Owns Information
By BRIAN STELTER

Reacting to an online swell of suspicion about changes to Facebook’s terms of service, the company’s chief executive moved to reassure users on Monday that the users, not the Web site, “own and control their information...more...

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