Terms and Conditions in a Social Networking Site

Presented bySrividya Subbiah

Team #6

Team Information

Mentors Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue Mr. Dilhar De SilvaTeam Members Shital Parikh Sandeep Chavva Pareddy Karunakar Reddy Srividya Subbiah

MySpace.com Terms and Conditions of MySpace.com

Does not claim any ownership rights User is responsible for the content posted It may delete content Content is not necessarily reviewed prior to

posting Does not monitor for inappropriate content “Report Inappropriate Link”

Facebook.com

The user is solely responsible for contents

The company may review, but it is not obligated to review the site

It may delete contents that violates Facebook code of conduct

Bebo.com, Xanga.com

The user is solely responsible for the content that he posts.

May delete contents when appropriate

Not responsible for Monitoring Filtering Pre-screening

Social Networking Sites

Other Social networking sites iMeem, yahoo! 360, Classmates, Hi5,

Live Journal, Friendster, tagged.com, Hoverspot, Buzznet, orkut, my YearBook,

Social networking Sites enforce Similar TOS rules.

TOS of Social Networking Sites The user is responsible for the

contents posted The Content posted should not

violate privacy rights, publicity rights, copyright rights, or other intellectual property rights of

any person.

TOS of Social Networking Sites

The site Claims no ownership over any

Content posted by its users does not guarantee the accuracy,

quality or integrity of content may remove content that violates

TOS Does not actively monitor or

prescreen the contents

Contents Checking

Disadvantages Inserts delay for the contents to be

posted People want to see immediate

response Essence of Social Networking is

lost

Solution

Similar to the popular Social Networking sites, we can have TOS

TOS mentions about the content that is prohibited and that can be posted

Contents that violates TOS can be removed

From MySpace.com

From FaceBook.com

References http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=114\ http://www.myspace.com/Modules/Com

mon/Pages/TermsConditions.aspx http://www.facebook.com/terms.php http://www.bebo.com/TermsOfUse.jsp http://help.xanga.com/about/termsofuse

.htm http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/ut

os/utos-173.html

References http://www.imeem.com/terms.aspx http://www.hi5.com/friend/displayTOS.do http://www.tagged.com/

terms_of_service.html http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos.bml http://www.hoverspot.com/

TermsofService.php http://www.buzznet.com/www/terms/ http://www.myyearbook.com/terms.php