Facebook Policy Primer by Prasanth Kandeepan

Facebook Policy Primer by Prasanth Kandeepan

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  ONLINE POLICY PRIMER TERMS OF SERVICE BY PRASANTH KANDEEPAN
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  What is Facebook?is k?  A free social networking website  Interact with families/friends  Share photos and/or videos  Play games online  Email and instant messaging  Join groups  Chat room for online users
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  TERMS OF SERVICE The Facebook terms of service or terms of use covers all the basic areas of copyright, contents, privacy, safety, and liability.  These terms are important for users  Users need to read it very carefully.  Do not accept any terms and conditions that you do not agree too.
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  CONTENT AND CONTROL When users post personal photos and videos on to Facebook, they give Facebook permission to use them without any restriction.  Users own the content but the content can be spread anywhere in the world with various platforms and applications.  Facebook is not liable for this and most importantly, users use their own discretion when posting items.  Users can adjust their settings to suit their needs.
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  PRIVACY  Facebook placesa large amount of responsibility, onto its users, and how they choose their privacy settings.  Passwords are the sole responsibility of the user, a stronger password is more secure. Don't share your password with others.  Facebook admits to sharing users information with third parties.  Users must be aware that everything they post on Facebook is at their own risk.  Facebook users must choose to block access to their profile. If not they are leaving themselves open to anyone to see their information. We found that users are generally unaware and/or unconcerned with protecting their privacy on social networking sites.(Christiana & Goettke,2007).
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  COPYRIGHT  Facebook userscannot post images and videos that are under copyright.  Facebook users cannot open false accounts under another person’s name. 89% of Facebook users provide their real name and only 8% provided a fake name.(Gross & Acquisti 2005).  Facebook users cannot use other people’s personal information in a harmful manner.  Facebook users must be aware that no compensation is made payable if users content are used elsewhere in other platforms.
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  TERMINATION OF ACCOUNT Facebook terminated users accounts if they fail to meet the agreed requirements of terms.  Termination reason can be for legal issues, harassment of other users, sending viruses.  Facebook still has access to users information in case of termination.  Users still has a chance to create new accounts with their pet names or false names.
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  CHILDREN  Facebook donot allow children under 13 years to join.  If any kids under 13 creates an account, then the Facebook will immediately delete their account.  Facebook allow kids under 13 to create an account under parental supervision.  Convicted sex offender also cannot join Facebook
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  SAFETY  Facebook doesnot guarantee the safety of users and it’s up to users to set their own settings to protect themselves.  Facebook do not allow unauthorized commercial communications such as spams.  Facebook users are not allow to upload or send viruses.  Facebook users are not allow to harass other users
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  LIABILITY Facebook don’t accept: Any legal responsibility for any problems that may arise.  Any damages caused by third parties.  Loss of income or profits.  Responsibility for any content, information or data. Users must accept responsibility for any damages that they receive or incur.
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  SPECIAL CONDITIONS  Userscan access Facebook with their mobile phones for free.  Fees apply for text messages.  Keep the mobile phone number up to date to ensure the messages sent to the right number.
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  REFERENCES  Facebook terms.(2012).Retrievedfrom http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms  Facebook Privacy Policy. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.facebook.com/policy.php  Gross, R., & Acquisti, A. (2005). Information revelation and privacy in online social networks. Retrieved from http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/privacy-facebook-gross-acquisti.pdf  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. Retrieved September 12, 2009, from http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs199r/fp/RichJoe.pdf  Privacy on Facebook. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.php IMAGES:  For my policy primer I used free images from Google and the credits goes to them.