For example, claims that Facebook is about to make a change to its privacy settings, and unless you pay a small fee, everything in your profile will become public is simply untrue. Another Facebook hoax is that if you post certain legal language as your status then your photos and other information will be protected by Facebook.
You have probably all had a friend post: "As of September 28th , 2015 at 10:50 p.m. Eastern standard time, I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information." The post typically goes on to warn you that if you don't copy and paste this status, your privacy will be compromised. Both assertions are complete fabrication.
Facebook does not own your photos. You are responsible for your own content. You can decide who can see your posts by checking the appropriate privacy settings. Facebook’s Terms of Service. When you post a photo, Facebook's permission to use them is limited to how you set your settings. Privacy settings. Furthermore, once a Facebook user deletes a photo, it can not be recaptured. In any event, merely writing a post about privacy would never prevent anyone from copying any content you choose to post. Once something is published, you can not prevent those from receiving the content from saving it to an external hard drive and storing it for later use. Snopes.
Be smart! Use your privacy settings and control who sees your content and by all means, ignore the hoax spam!
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