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New Facebook Terms of Service: All Your Content Are Belong to Us – Forever!

Facebook (FB) has recently updated their Terms of Service (TOS), and among the new changes is this dandy: once you post something to Facebook you can’t take it back. Meaning that even if you close your account, by using Face book you have granted them a perpetual, eternal license to do whatever they want with your content.

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Teen Anthony Stancl Uses Facebook to Trick and Blackmail Other Boys Into Having Sex with Him

An 18-year-old boy has been charged with blackmailing as many as 31 teen boys into having sex with him. Anthony Stancl – who calls himself Tony Stancil – of New Berlin, Wisconsin, tricked his victims by posing as a girl on Facebook, and having his victims send nude pictures and videos of themselves to “her”. Then Anthony Stancil told them that if they didn’t have sex with him, or let him perform a sex act on them, that he would post the pictures and videos to the Internet.

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Facebook Censors Pictures of Breastfeeding Babies

As early as 2007, Facebook began quietly censoring pictures of breastfeeding babies which members had posted to their Facebook profiles. They did this by simply removing the pictures of the nursing babies after they were posted. In some cases, users were warned if they continued posting such “obscene” content, they stood to lose their Facebook accounts. Now the issue is heating up, and Facebook is not backing down. Facebook – you win the booby prize.

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You’ve Been Served – on Facebook!

An Australian court has allowed someone to be served with notice of a lawsuit – by message on Facebook!

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Facebook the Movie: Yes It’s True – Aaron Sorkin is Creating the Facebook Movie for Sony

Facebook the Movie? Can it be? Yes, it can, and it is. It’s true. Aaron Sorkin, creator of the awesome television series “The West Wing” and the movie “A Few Good Men”, is creating the Facebook Movie for Sony.

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Lawyers Use Information Gleaned from Social Media Sites Against Defendants

The rise in social media sites such as Facebook and Myspace has been a boon for prosecutors, who are finding incriminating pictures on such sites – pictures which have been admitted as evidence in court, and used to increase penalties, sentences, and prison time!