on the theft of mental property on Facebook

Yeah

So i basically had a leaf through the terms and conditions implemented on Facebook and had to say that I was actually quite unhappy about them.

Facebook is basically this great big contact site, where you have a profile page and everyone else has a profile page and you can join networks of people living in the same region or going to the same school and then you can find your friends in those networks, provided they are on Facebook. You can fill in lots of details about yourself, anything any friend of yours might want to know that he/she doesn't already, you have loads of space to upload photos onto, you can share pictures, links, thoughts, basically anything that can be written into a text box, with anyone who's on Facebook.

As I said, I had a leaf through the t&cs because a friend of mine thrown off the site for allegedly using a fake name which, considering that you can find stuffed animals on there, is a bit ridiculous. The bit I take issue with is the passage outlining your rights to anything you write or post on F - or complete lack thereof. Facebook have arranged things so that you automatically forfeit all your rights to what is essentially your own mental property from the moment you post it onto the site until the moment you take it off the site again - which let's face it, is not going to happen because you either stay on it till you drop or you get bored of it in which case you don't want to spend any more time on the site deleting everything.

The problem of course with t&cs is that you're supposed to have read them before you hit the OK button which no-one ever does and that's why online services keep getting away with so much $hit.

I think that mental property should be respected even on the internet