Facebook had recently declared in their new Terms of Service policy about the rights Facebook can reserve once a user decides to quit the service. The issues were pertaining to Facebook wanting to retention of information. This issue began when Facebook?s TOS were altered to reflect their right to control and own information, even after someone has left Facebook.

Once these changes were noticed, New York Times and many other blogs began to protest. Facebook was claiming rights over content such as pictures after a person uploads them. This reflected the ability of the company to continue sharing written posts and photos after a user would stop using the service, to keep from upsetting the social threads that bound Facebook. A discussion regarding who owns information hasn?t really ensued hence this is an ambiguous topic which added fire to the animosity.

Should users be allowed to remove their posts from Facebook once they quit? Twitter allows instant removal of a departing user?s posts. The problem lies in Facebook?s lack of elaboration about what happens once a user leaves the service. Facebook is like a large country, the 6th largest to be exact if it were solely based on users. Although for now Facebook has changed its policies back, look for this topic to become one of the more conflicting and interesting discussion on the social web.