Wait a sec if I'm not mistaken did this not happen with DeviantART several years back? It's like “here submit your content” thanks a bunch, now we will do whatever we want with it because it's ours now. Thanks for visiting come again.

Personally I had put some images of paintings I've done for friends and families to see (I've limited my photos and images to friends and family only) and before this recent change figured it was a safe way of exhibiting work I've been doing while at university.

It's scary because these websites can do whatever they want with your media. I mean sure we all know what images are put up on the internet are easily up for grabs and you don't know who is saving them to their computers… but it's not as frightening as when a company or site lays a claim to your work, your image and your information for that matter. Basically giving you no legal right to do anything to them if they choose to sell your work or give your work and images out to other companies I bet to use for who knows what.

That's next to the fact that these networking places more then likely are passing on all your given info out to marketing teams so they can reach you better and advertise directly to your preferences. They got to make money somehow I suppose.

Personally I am going to have to take down any images I don't want them to own now apparently. I don't think I even got a new notice or anything about this new policy within the last weeks as well. It's good to see someone putting this information up and clarifying it for people.

Again said to see a website go out and do this to it's users. It's a slap in the face. Much like the slap in the fact I got from dA when they had this similar policy… which I'm not even sure exactly if that's been revised and such.

From here on, I think Facebook need to choose their wording very carefully. Leaving it so open-ended, while yes, it does protect them in terms of ability to be litigated, harms their relationship with the userbase that sustains them. Perhaps there needs to be an amendment made to reflect that anything content-based can only be reproduced and displayed by the site on certain services and that all content cannot be used for revenue generation.

How'd you get around it with the introduction of dA Mobile in the end of it all anyway? I stopped paying attention eventually because it all became clear like mud with how much bullshit everyone was speaking.

It certainly reminds me of the dA fiasco with their TOS.

It's not really that hard. The problem with Facebook, as with deviantART back in the day, is they acted too late – they allowed the negativity to perpetuate and it is going to bite them in the ass unless they do something positive to course correct this mistake.