Freedom of Content

I think we can all agree that in this day and age, there is no greater valued commodity than information, pure and simple.

Google built an empire on it, Sysco moves it, and Facebook recently pissed us all off concerning their want to control it.

Earlier this week Facebook altered their Terms of Service agreement to mean that they have complete control over our content, always and forever, even after we terminate our account.

And your asking, who cares? Its just “25 random things about me” or pictures of you passed out drunk at the party last week, right?

Not so much, it is those things, but its also your age, name, demographic, likes, dislikes, frequency of being in a relationship, whether you drink or smoke, what your religion is, even what your favorite drink is (remember that great pass a drink app?)

Gives me chills just thinking about it, because you know they're saving the information to sell to advertisers.

For this reason, you’ll no longer see me on Facebook, because I feel my personal information, my personal content , is mine alone.

The creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, put up a post on his blog about the change in the ToS, stating that the information that you share on Facebook, all of it, right down to contact information, is owned by Facebook because you used them to share it.

Can you think of anything scarier?

I feel we should create a world where our content, our information, is ours, and ours alone. We choose who we share it with, if anyone. And that includes companies, of any kind.

And you know what? When I delete an account in a server somewhere, I want it to forget I was ever there. Simple as that.

If I go so far as to actually delete an account, it means I never want to be there anymore, and I want no one that is there to know I existed.

I plan on getting into this Freedom of Content idea more inn a later article, but for now if you arnet already, follow me on Twitter @stay_calm, and please friends, stay calm.