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This move annoyed
many social media users
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One likened it to
a "suicide note" - New York-based photographer Clayton Cubbit
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"Eventually we'll figure out a way
to monetise Instagram." - Facebook's vice-president of global
marketing solutions Carolyn Everson
Mentions in Terms of Use
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"We may share your information as
well as information from tools like cookies, log files, and device identifiers
and location data with organisations that help us provide the service to you...
(and) third-party advertising partners."
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"To help us deliver interesting paid
or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business may pay us to
display your username, likeness, photos, in connection with paid or sponsored
content or promotions, without any compensation to you,"
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The updated policy will not change how it
handles photo ownership or who is able to see a user's pictures
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It has also triggered a backlash among
social media users
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One user tweeted: "Good bye #instagram.
Your new terms of service are totally stupid and nonsense. Good luck playing
with the big boys."
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New policies could deal a blow to
Facebook's reputation and alienate some users.
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"Every time Facebook has altered
their privacy policy it has led to a backlash and they've been forced to
retreat. They tamper with people's privacy at a cost. People are very upset."
- Richard Holway, chairman of TechMarketView
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"It's a barefaced tactic that Facebook and Instagram
have taken, and one that will likely meet with many challenges, legally and
ethically. - Alan Pelz-Sharpe, research director
at 451 Research
This shows how internet and social media website are now being
created and run for monetization rather than recreation or socialising – what it’s
primarily run for. Furthermore, this also reinforces the view point that it
dominant companies – such as Facebook – that dominate the internet, countering
the view that the internet is democratic.
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