Defriend This

Facebook owns you. And not in a theoretical, "I waste too much time and therefore life checking status updates" kind of way. In a real way.

From the Facebook agreement:

You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.

You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.

So basically, Facebook can use anything you put on there, even if you leave the site. If you post a picture of you wasted with blackface, that picture will be on there forever. (Please tell me you're not getting wasted and doing blackface, because if you are, you kind of deserve for Facbeook to own your ass.)

And it's not just stuff you post. It's stuff people post about you, too. You don't have much control over your public image.

"Looking at it globally, millions of people are uploading bits of information on everyone and everything, to a huge online database, and by doing so they’re automatically giving away the rights to use or modify this information to a private corporation. And not only that; they now also waiver the right to ever take it back from it."

Basically, be careful about the things you post online, as always. But Facebook should respect its users, too. Don't mess with people's stuff, especially when they escape from your site. It's just bad karma otherwise.