Facebook Terms of Service and Privacy Policy!

 Most people now a days use some form of social network, be it Facebook or even Steam. While so many of us use these social networks next to no one ever reads their Terms of Service or their Privacy Policies and therefore don't really know what they are signing up too.

As Facebook is one of the biggest if not the biggest I have chosen to review its terms and how it uses our information. Before we can discuss what they will do with your information, you have to know what information that they actually take from you, this is all listed here (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info). If you read through this, you will see they take a LOT of information down about you. This ranges from all the information you put down when signing up, like your birthday, place of work to family. Then they also use anything you post, (pictures, links or statuses) or are tagged in, these are what you would expect them to use from a company that profits from gathering information, but the other stuff that they record, is what really intrigued me.

Facebook also takes down basically anything that you take enter into it, be it mouse clicks or searches, Facebook games and your computer specs. If you search for a friend on Facebook and don't add anyone, they take that search history. Nothing that you have or do on Facebook is private from them.While they do have your information, I believe Facebook isn't malicious in anyway by obtaining your information, they specifically state "We only provide data to our advertising partners or customers after we have removed your name or any other personally identifying information from it, or have combined it with other people's data in a way that it is no longer associated with you.". This statement to me, as long as they do what they say, is fair use of our information.

Facebook provides an excellent service, FREE of charge, it is only natural that they find some way to continue this service and they do it by selling our information but anonymously. With all the information they gather us, they need to protect it, for some people this information documents their entire lives and could be quite dangerous in the wrong hands! Luckily enough Facebook employs its own team of security staff and also has a bounty for third parties to find security flaws.

For the amount of enjoyment everyone gets from using Facebook and the amount of time people spend using it each day, I believe that sharing a little information is worth it.