BEBO
Bebo describes itself as a social media network where people can exchange material. They say that they reserve the right to make any changes to the Terms of Service at any time and will notify members of these changes. They also reserve the right to take any material off your page that they don't like and does not fit in with their terms and conditions. They state that they have no ownership of your material at any time however they do say that once you have put your info online that they along with their agents (WHO ARE THESE AGENTS?, NO MENTION OF THAT) have a limited license to that material to FROM BEBO.COM: use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such materials. Does not really sound like I have complete ownership of my bebo page. Their sympathy card states that without this license they would not be able to provide the bebo service. Again it states that all members info is to be stored in the United States, even if do not live in the USA, your material is headed that way to Bebo or its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers maintain facilities. Like many other social network sites, they dont allow anything that may offend its members, such as: FROM Bebo.com: publish, distribute and/ or disseminate any harmful, obscene, indecent, unlawful, libelous, profane, defamatory, infringing, inappropriate, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material or information. It clearly states in a seperate Privacy Policy link that it will deliver your information to advertising companies. Lets be honest here, the people that sign up to these sites never read the terms and conditions and will sign up to anything if their friends or work collegues are already involved and happy with it. People instinctively want to be social accepted so these sites work on that aspect and draw people in. Terms and conditions will always suit the people writing them up. People should beware.
Our task to search the terms and conditions of a social media site linked into what the lecture was about today. Internet privacy and OPEN ACCESS. Social media sites will have you believe that your info is yours and safe but is it really? I don't think so. Even with all the terms and conditions these sites put up, its impossible to the average computer user to know their rights let alone act on those rights. Even if the user wants to do something about it, like sue, they have no chance with the money and power these online companies have. Who knows where our info is going. The safest thing to do if you need to join up to one of these sites is to limit the amount of personal info you put on your site. This way I feel your pretty safe from an online ambush. The Governance and politics that go hand in hand with this new social media were also highlighted.
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