A term of service is something that all users must agree to, to be invited into the site. Even though all have to agree to it there only a few people who actually read the Terms of service. This blog will focus on two of the main guarantees of privacy Facebook offers.
Firstly, Facebook is legally able to keep all its rights on everything you put on the website even after you remove it from Facebook, and delete your Facebook account. This is due to Facebook removing the sentences that specified that their rights terminate when your content comes down. This makes Facebook unique to many other social sites for in all other sites once you delete your content the site loses all rights to it (Petchey, P. 2008).
Finally, Facebook claims that it is able to do whatever it wants with your content if you put a Share on Facebook link on your web page. You are able to post links in Facebook to your profile by copying and pasting the URL. If however you want to make it easier for your friends to look at you can just put a link or a widget on your site. This is when Facebook is granted their rights. (French, A. 2008)
Bibliography:
Petchey, P. (2008). Clergy Terms of Service: Employment Law Issues. Ecclesiastical law journal. 10 (3), p.333.
French, A. (2008). Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Available: http://amandafrench.net/blog/2009/02/16/facebook-terms-of-service-compared 
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