fAcEbOOk: Making wrong decissions?

Facebook, by some measurements the most popular social network with 175 million active users worldwide, is one of the fastest-growing and best-known sites on the Internet today.

The company, founded in 2004 by a Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg, began life catering first to Harvard students and then to all high school and college students. It has since evolved into a broadly popular online destination used by both teenagers and adults of all ages.

Well, yesterday I found a very interesting and in some way scary new about this popular page, it said that in February 2009, when Facebook updated its terms, it deleted a provision that said users could remove their content at any time, at which time the license would expire. Further, it added new language that said Facebook would retain users’ content and licenses after an account was terminated. Originally defending the changes, Mr Zuckerberg had said it was to better reflect how people used the site. He argue that the changes were made to ensure that if a user deleted his or her account any comments or messages he or she had left on a friend's Facebook page would not also disappear.

So I think that Facebook should be very careful with these new terms because is following a path that can lead to a disaster, as they can lose people’s trust in that network. As Simon Davis of Privacy International mentioned, the company is doing wrong for allowing commercial and legal concerns to override its commitment to users, saying: "It appears to be going down the same road as Google. Its halo is starting to slip."

In conclusion I think at the end Facebook will reconsider going through this dangerous path and modify its terms once more by committing to a privacy policy that would allow users to delete all data from its systems once more.