Michelle McIntosh

As of 4 Feb 09 Facebook made a change to it’s user terms that reads.

“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.”

So everything you add on Facebook will be archived and kept indefinitely! They can use anything they want to promote Facebook such as your family photos or private posts.

You can delete your profile but the data has already been saved and will be property of Facebook!

Source: FoxNews

This week, the Senate will vote on President Obama’s economic stimulus plan—with historic investments in green jobs, health care, and education to get our economy back on track.

But right now, the stimulus doesn’t have the votes to pass.1 Republicans and conservative Democrats are teaming up to strip out the good stuff—college loan assistance, health research, tax cuts for poor folks, and more—in favor of more tax cuts for corporations.2 If they don’t get their way, they’ll block the plan.

Last week, not a single Republican in the House voted for Obama’s plan—they didn’t think voters would ever hold them accountable. That’s why we’re asking folks to pledge now to help run ads after the vote letting the public know where key senators—both Republican and Democrat—came down on the bill. We need to get started now, so politicians and the media know their constituents are paying attention.

President Obama’s plan isn’t perfect, but it’s mostly pretty great:

* Millions of green jobs to double our clean energy production in three years.3
* Affordable health care for the unemployed.4
* The biggest investment in education since World War II—enough to “avert literally hundreds of thousands of teacher layoffs.”5

This is just the opposite of the bank bailout.

But senators from both parties think their constituents aren’t paying attention or are confused about what’s at stake. That’s why they need to know MoveOn members are ready to run ads telling voters whose side they’re on.

If they vote to support the recovery plan, we’ll run ads letting voters know they stood with Obama to create badly needed jobs. And if they oppose it, we’ll make sure voters know that they’re standing in the way of economic help for the rest of us.

Source: MoveOn.org