Comments on: Facebook opens up to user debate and vote

CEO Mark Zuckerberg finds the silver lining behind the recent terms-of-service flap: A new, open plan to govern Facebook.

[karpenterskids]

They're doing the right thing...kudos to them for that.

Even those most vocal about the changes to the terms of agreement should be satisfied by this new plan...I wonder if Myspace will feel pressure to do the same, eventually?

[cube3]

Zuckerberg said, "We took last week as a strong signal of how much people cared about Facebook and how much they want to govern it."

They dont want to "govern" it, they just dont want you to "govern" them. In the US, they elect representatives to congress and a president to do that.

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"Every silver lining, has a cloud." - CJ: Fall and rise of Reginald Perrin.

[DaKuya]

This concept and idea has actually been done on a small social network site founded by members kicked of of places like Tribe and MySpace over 2 years ago. Looks like Zuckerberg is "borrowing" ideas again. Give some credit where credit is due I am not plugging this site only pointing out the concept and foundation were in fact other peoples ideas. RE http://free-association.net their entire history, member voting and founding documents are all listed under their history.

[DaKuya]

This concept and idea has actually been done on a small social network site founded by members kicked of of places like Tribe and MySpace over 2 years ago. Looks like Zuckerberg is "borrowing" ideas again. Give some credit where credit is due I am not plugging this site only pointing out the concept and foundation were in fact other peoples ideas. RE http://free-association.net their entire history, member voting and founding documents are all listed under their history.

[jimadler1]

Citizen governance in a community as large as Facebook would be truly transformational. It would be a great place to test the transparency of online voting. For more on this: http://blog.jimadler.name/2009/02/facebook-voting-no-cheating-please.html.

[tess-leigh]

Is there an email address at which one can contact facebook about its terms of service??

For unusual reasons, it is not possible (the information is not known) for me to give definite answers to some of the registration questions they ask -- but filling in something random would very likely be providing false information. So I can't register without violating the terms of service, and I can't find any way to communicate with them about how to resolve this without registering with them!

Facebook is, you might recall, the company involved in the conviction of someone under the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Statutes for having provided "false information"; as I do not wish to risk such a prosecution, I need find a communications channel to iron this out that doesn't require that I register with them.

[julieannboni2]

i have a question:
i have been block in facebook for almost one week and i cannot open my account. The reson why i can't log on beacuse some people reort that I violate theTerms of Use in facebook. i wanted to know when i can get back from my account beacuse all my files are still there. I contacted the facebook they told me they will return me soon but it almost 2 weeks and i still can't get my account

can anyone here tell me if they have experience like this and pls. tell how many days i should wait to open my account? thank you very much