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Facebook announced the next round of changes and additions to their "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities," -- the terms of service document that governs -- the popular social networking website. The document has received some criticism in the past (ahem).
One of the more interesting changes? Users are now prohibited from using their Facebook profile for direct profit. That means selling your status updates to someone willing to pay for the exposure is now a big no-no.
Will this stop companies from profile spamming for fame and fortune? Twitter is already over-run by every Tom-Dick and Marketer. Most users won't mind the change, but the comment period runs from now until August 18th, so, go ahead spam cowboys, tell Zuck how you feel.
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Subscribe to commentsKevinAug 12th 2009 12:53AM
Not a problem! Thank god, i see so much spam!
caseyAug 12th 2009 12:58AM
I must have good eFriends because I do hardly see any spam on Facebook.... especially as status messages
Now if we could only clean up and structure Twitter to contain less crap....
SkuzAug 12th 2009 4:23AM
It's well worth taking the time to go through the account & privacy settings of Facebook, there are hundreds of things you should do if you want to maintain a reasonabe level of privacy.
Just looking through all the settings will be an education in itself of all the ways Facebook trades your personal details around.
sodapopAug 12th 2009 4:03PM
Frankly, I want to be able to sell via Facebook. We put a lot of effort into the friendlist we build and it should be up to us if we want to monitize it. If you don't like my status, unfriend me.
joycevinAug 13th 2009 9:26AM
I have got f.b. and was very happy with it, last week my computer crashed and since I have got it back, I really battle to load things,,, my farm for instance will not load the animals and it takes ages to load,, would this be a problem with f.b. or my computer,,,, Please help
joycevinOct 10th 2009 1:46AM
I loved face book, I had so many applications, I loved all my friends and I lost them all and I do not know why, I have asked for help from FB but nothing ,,, I can not remember all my friends names so that I can ask them to be my friend again,,,,FB seems to be doing nothing about it, so now I have to go under another name with a different mail address,,, am I being punished for some thing I have not done,, very very unfair
Joyce Vincent