Michael Hainsworth

UPDATE! See: Facebook’s About Face, and why Digital Democracy Stinks

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is saying, “trust me” after the insanely popular social networking site quietly changed its terms of service.

Image courtesy "The Bristolian Adventures of Mark and Chrystal"

Everything the site’s 175,000,000 users upload, from personal photos to videos and everything in between, is now property of Facebook. They can do whatever they want with it — from sublicense your baby’s birth photos to Pampers to that video of you drunk to Smirnoff.

In reality, we wouldn’t share your information in a way you wouldn’t want. The trust you place in us as a safe place to share information is the most important part of what makes Facebook work. Our goal is to build great products and to communicate clearly to help people share more information in this trusted environment.

NBC Los Angeles reports Blog Queen Perez Hilton is calling for a Facebook boycott.

If there’s anything that will bring down Facebook, it’s this. 30 Somethings are already bored with the site, its membership is in decline, and there always seems to be a huge legal fight over who actually owns it.

Zuckerberg turned down $1B from Yahoo to buy the site, months after Viacom offered $750M. The value of FB is declining in this recession — who knows if Zuckerberg may revisit these bids before the site is worth less than the Evil Corporations perceive. What if some Evil Corporation takes over and Mark “Trust Me” Zuckerberg is ousted? Can you trust Corporate America to respect your personal correspondence, photos and videos?

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