Facebook Privacy Changes – Fact or Fiction?

Facebook is not making users pay to make their profiles private and FOX13 is not broadcasting this information. In a word: no.

There’s a viral rumor going around the popular social media site the past week that has scared users into sharing a Facebook status about privacy settings – except it’s not true. If the post isn’t shared by “tomorrow”, it threatens that all of your posts will become public. For commercial use of the foregoing my written consent is required at all times’. For commercial use of the foregoing my written consent is required at all times.By this release, I tell Facebook that it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, broadcast, or to take any other action against me on the basis of this profile and/or its contents. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). Re-posting this exact block of text, the post explains, will notify Facebook that you don’t give them permission to use your photos.

“Facebook users cannot retroactively negate any of the privacy or copyright terms they agreed to when they signed up for their accounts, nor can they unilaterally alter or contradict any new privacy or copyright terms instituted by Facebook, simply by posting a contrary legal notice on their Facebook walls”.

Please share this article with any Facebook users who have fallen victim to this attention-seeking hoax that preys on the wary and cautious.

It’s unclear why this hoax keeps resurfacing, but rest assured, we have nothing to worry about when it comes to Facebook privacy as long as we set our profiles from public to private. All members must post a note like this. Even the messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed.

So when you get the email, first hover your mouse over the link and confirm the “Faceboook” misspelling. You know the type: “Share this with at least 10 people or you’ll have bad luck in your love life for 10 years”.

The myth-busting site Snopes.com also addressed the Facebook subscription rumor in a blog post to debunk the myth. “They control how that content and information is shared”.

The revived hoaxes follow a new, more timely scam making the rounds last week.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that an alternative to “like” is on the way, but it will not be called “dislike” and it has yet to start rolling out.