Breaking News - Facebook Back Down on User Information Changes

Facebook recently revealed that they would revise the way they held rights to user information including the use of member's images, even if they deleted their account.

The social network had said that they intended to keep the rights to use images or information of its members so that they could use it for their own purposes.

What wasn't made clear in the outset was what the personal information would be used for which has upset many of Facebook's users.

I have to admit I was shocked to learn that Facebook wanted to use my information for the sites own gain. It amazed me that they would even entertain the notion. It seems I was not the only one.

Thousand of Facebook users have made complaints to customer services; many of them if like me would have been threatening to remove all images and information from the website and delete the account.

It hasn't been revealed how many complaints there had been to Facebook by its members but it was enough to make the website providers back down on the changes.

Like a lot of other members I feel a little let down by Facebook after their plan to let my information be branded about to anyone and everyone. It had to be a blatant breach of customer security, let alone the many copyright infringements that there could have been.

As UK news network Sky News report, the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg who first developed the site in the USA in 2004, has issued a statement which reads:

"Over the past couple of days, we received a lot of questions and comments about the changes and what they mean for people and their information.
Based on this feedback, we have decided to return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the issues that people have raised."

He mentioned that Facebook's website rules would be changing in the future and that these new policies would "clarify" the websites position.

Zuckerberg added, "Our next version will be a substantial revision from where we are now. It will reflect the principles I described around how people share and control their information, and it will be written clearly in language everyone can understand."

The moves to change the rules are likely to be interesting after the current revelations and back down by Facebook. The websites 175 estimated users are likely to be keeping an eye on the future developments.

If Facebook decide that they are to make it "clear" as Mark Zuckerberg says, then one hopes it is not about Facebook's intention to use information as they please or keep any rights to material or images within the pages of their website. I feel if they do adopt this stance then they are likely to lose a lot of members.

Source: Sky News UK