The Stupid

I'm sure this is old news by now, but I'm still having a chuckle about it...And you know what, I don’t get to the blog too often so deal with it.

Facebook, the social web phenomenon that I am convince is filled with nothing but spam, bad news, and ex girlfriends, recently changed their terms of service. (Also known as TOS for people who have a sick obsession with acronyms.) The story goes that no one seemed to care at first until it was discovered in the fine print that Facebook got the rights to any public content you posted after you deleted your account.

Now if you are like me--well then you don’t have a Facebook account so who the hell cares? Well it turns out everyone who is on Facebook cares a great deal as many have threatened to completely boycott the gossip machine all together.
"Hey Jesse, this is a blog. Shouldn't you be linking me to the Terms of Service so I can read it for myself?"

Well I'd love to, faithful reader, except that Facebook caved just a few days after the uproar and changed their TOS back to exactly the way it was. Sorry, no link for you right now.

So in short: Kudos to Facebook for raising an entire legion of “web enthusiasts” and then watching as that legion rises against you. I’m just waiting for the web 2.0 coupe de tat!