There is value in social applications such as Facebook, myspace and others but take the time to read the fine print an terms so you fully understand what your cost to play is, where an how your materials and interactions could be used and what you are granting blanket permissions to by participating within those networks.
Facebook changes some terms
Facebook has changed its terms policy and is now anything that you publish on facebook, by doing so you are granting rights to facebook to utilize your material, information and even your likeness without renumeration (pay) nor permission by you.
The second know point is the third party applications that you connect with on your site. You are not only granting permission to post that plant or gift but also access to your profile, friends and more.
TIP: I removed all gift, best friends and other "fun" applications from my profile as I do not want to give third party access to my friends nor do I want these applications to access their information nor mine beyond what the application function was for.
Licenses
You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof. You represent and warrant that you have all rights and permissions to grant the foregoing licenses.
Third Party Applications and Connect Sites
If you authorize an Application or allow a Connect Site to connect with your account on the Facebook Service, you agree that such Application/Connect Site can (a) access information on the Facebook Service related to you (including your profile information, friends and privacy settings) and (b) generate and publish news feed and other stories about actions you take on such Application/Connect Site without any additional permission. If you want to change the information that Applications/Connect Sites can access, you may modify your privacy settings. If you no longer want these news feed or other stories to be published, you can disable this feature by changing your application settings.
Don't Publish Proprietary Materials On your Profile, Pages or In Groups
Take care if you post, share or distribute be it personal or business information that would be considered non transferable, a trade secret or is monitiz-able to you or your business know that you are granting permission to utilize this information. I would think that these above terms even apply to private suscribe groups within the platform.
In closingIn a business or personal if you are utilizing the platform would suggest not posting any proprietary information or materials that you don't want blanket permissions granted.
TIP: If your using these social sites to draw attention to your ideas, products, services and knowledge would
suggest the method of posting a intro blip with a link to your material hosted on your own site, or blog and not within the social platform its self if you wish to keep and control the rights to your materials in tact.
