Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset for a better reason

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Why I started the group on Facebook

I just wanted to clarify why I started the Facebook group "People Against the new Terms of Service (TOS)" yesterday.

Personally it wasn't so much about getting Facebook to change their TOS. If you read the old TOS you would have known that it always sucked and probably always will. Ideally they would add the two lines they removed again, and edit the wording in some places.

For me it was much more a matter of Facebook AGAIN not communicating properly with their members.
Is it too much to ask for a notification or an email stating that they have changed their TOS?
Maybe also explain in details why they did it and what benefits the changes would have to their members? Does Facebook actually think every member read their blog? I still have friends (on Facebook) who haven't heard of RSS feeds or still don't read any blogs.

So much of what has happened the last two days could have been avoided if they had told us directly what they were up to. Facebook has a track record of not informing their uses of changes to the service. Makes me wonder if they learned anything at all from the Beacon episode a while back.

What I am hoping to achieve is to for Facebook to realize that talking to your members actually is a good thing and maybe even that the members start to become more aware of what, how and with whom they chose to share their content on the web.

Posted by: yojibee   Posted on: 02/17/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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