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Facebook Asking For Feedback for new Terms of Service

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg posted a new blog this afternoon proposing two new documents designed to resolve their need to change their Terms of Service Agreement. Facebook's plan is to replace their existing Terms of Service with a Statement of Rights and Responsibilities that follow the Facebook Principles. Take a look and offer your feedback!

We sat down to work on documents that could be the foundation of this and we came to an interesting realization—that the conventional business practices around a Terms of Use document are just too restrictive to achieve these goals. We decided we needed to do things differently and so we're going to develop new policies that will govern our system from the ground up in an open and transparent way.

Beginning today, we are giving you a greater opportunity to voice your opinion over how Facebook is governed. We're starting this off by publishing two new documents for your review and comment. The first is the Facebook Principles, which defines your rights and will serve as the guiding framework behind any policy we'll consider—or the reason we won't consider others. The second document is the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, which will replace the existing Terms of Use. With both documents, we tried hard to simplify the language so you have a clear understanding of how Facebook will be run. We've created separate groups for each document so you can read them and provide comments and feedback. You can find the Facebook Principles here and the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities here. Before these new proposals go into effect, you'll also have the ability to vote for or against proposed changes.

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Posted by | Thu, Feb 26, 2009 - 03:56 PM