If you think using platforms such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Google is free, you definitely needs to read this article.
When you use Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter you create content. Your content then draws other users to read your content. When presented to those users it is adorned with advertisements. Those advertisements aren’t free or cheap.
Per Facebook Terms:
Our goal is to deliver advertising and other commercial or sponsored content that is valuable to our users and advertisers. In order to help us do that, you agree to the following:
You give us permission to use your name, profile picture, content, and information in connection with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us. This means, for example, that you permit a business or other entity to pay us to display your name and/or profile picture with your content or information, without any compensation to you. If you have selected a specific audience for your content or information, we will respect your choice when we use it.
Note: Even “Liking” someone elses post or page you are creating a type of content Facebook can use for profit.
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
When you publish content or information using the Public setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
These big tech outlets such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Google make lots of money off your posted content. You think you are using these platforms for free, but nothing is free. You pay for the usage of these platforms every time you post new content. Every time you post content, no matter how insignificant you may think it is, you are putting money in their profit column. With every post I make here on my private site, I am hoping it will draw viewers. The more viewers, the higher my page is ranked. The higher the ranking, the more advertisers will pay. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Google all make money off of the thousands of users who post content. I wish I had just a few hundred people to help me build content on my site lol.
Effective 01 October 2020:
A new clause will let Facebook remove content or restrict user access to avoid lawsuits or regulatory impacts.
You are not familiar with all that Facebook can do with your content, clicks, likes, pictures, etc… checkout the following link: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy