Thursday, April 2, 2009

I never agreed to this...?


Welcome to my first blog post. Have you ever found yourself agreeing to a terms of service that you didn't even read? I have to say that I didn't really read this, that is until I happened to come across one part of this Blogger Terms of Service that caught my attention. Clause # 6 had a line that reads "You acknowledge that Google owns all..." At first glance it really looks like Google owns everything. Like, "You are now selling yourself to Google, do you agree?" Hell Yeah! Anyway that's not what it really reads, if you go to the next it says Google owns all right, title and interest in and to the service..." That was reassuring to know that we the users own the postings that we may include on the blogs. But the point is not what Google is writing in their terms of service, but rather, it is the act of actually reading the terms of service. We don't want to end in a situation where "all of our base are belong to them"(Yeah that was lame) . It is important to actually look at the terms of service to see what the service demands from the user. We never know when we'll essentially be signing away our souls to a company or so to speak.

Next time you're thinking of just clicking "I accept", think again.

4 comments:

  1. Lolz funny. hope they have a skip all button. yhea google owns everything now a days, which is scary cause it's a big coorp that bought the internet...kinda. "owned" in another term. second base goes to Adobe *coughmissmacromedia*

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  2. Definitely dude. Adobe might as well own all multimedia lol.

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  3. Woah. I woke up and saw the new layout. niice job.

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  4. Thanks and if you guys feel like changing it up again feel free.

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