Posted on February 27, 2009 by by valerirojas

Facebook has created a group where they will be publishing proposed terms and conditions for their site. The idea is for people to review any new proposals regarding rights and responsibilities of the site before establishing them. I guess they did learn their lesson last time.

Beginning today, we are giving you a greater opportunity to voice your opinion over how Facebook is governed. We’re starting this off by publishing two new documents for your review and comment. The first is the Facebook Principles, which defines your rights and will serve as the guiding framework behind any policy we’ll consider—or the reason we won’t consider others. The second document is the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, which will replace the existing Terms of Use. With both documents, we tried hard to simplify the language so you have a clear understanding of how Facebook will be run. We’ve created separate groups for each document so you can read them and provide comments and feedback. You can find the Facebook Principles here and the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities here. Before these new proposals go into effect, you’ll also have the ability to vote for or against proposed changes.

The first proposed statement has been posted in their website today. The comment period will close at 12:01 am PDT on March 29. So if you do care about how your information is used in Facebook then comment on it.

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