Every day there is always someone freaking out about one social network or other who apparently take ownership of your content. This inevitably starts a panic among their friends list and mass deletion of content they don’t want big corporations to own.
For those who can’t be arsed reading further here’s the deal in a nutshell:
- You will always own your content on social networks, no-one can take that away from you.
- You allow the social networks license or the right to use your content as they see fit in return for using their site.
- The can dictate to you how their site can and can’t be used if they feel like it.
- If you don’t like it, don’t sign up!