(A 4-grits post)

Facebook owns your soul.

OK, maybe not your soul, but it does have license to use anything you post to your page...forever.

I read this. And then I read these.

The first is an article that deciphers Facebook's terms of service, and the second is those terms.

To make it even easier for you, I'll quote a very special part of it.

Submissions

You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback or other information that you provide to Facebook ("Submissions"), are non-confidential and non-proprietary. Facebook will be entitled to the unrestricted use of any such Submission for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.

Later the terms go on to say that any "User Content" will survive any termination of your account. This means that if you read this and then immediately go and delete your account, Facebook will still have rights to use any pictures, phone numbers, websites, etc. that you posted in its archives. And the right to use those things at any time for any reason.

No need to worry about Big Brother, Facebook is watching you.