Most users who voted approved the new set of terms called Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. A new Privacy Policy is also expected to be put forward and voted.  

 

The earlier version of the Facebook terms of use upset many users of the Web site as well as advocacy groups. After the complaints began to multiply, the free-access social networking website has quickly and silently operated some changes at its terms-of-service agreement. However, this Facebook scandal is just the tip of a really big iceberg. Most Web sites do not notify users when they change the terms of service and some of them they changed them so that they are now licensed to use all the content users upload on those social network Web sites. This controversial fact was revealed by the latest scandal related to this issue which involved Facebook. 

 

However, the new terms of use submitted by Facebook increase user control and privacy protection and also improve account deletion and limit sub licenses and reduce data exchanges between applications developers. 

 

The changes were based mostly on the discussion held online by the Web site's users and the new set of terms of use praise cheers among users. 

 

The whole thing started in February, when users noticed that Facebook had made some changes to its terms of use which gave the Web site "irrevocable, perpetual" license to use any member's "name, likeness, and image" in any way, even if the account had been deleted. It didn't take long for protest groups such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center to threaten Facebook with filing a federal complaint. Once Facebook found out what the advocacy group was preparing to do, it quickly contacted its executives to solve the issue. Then Facebook vowed to revert the changed terms and change the already existent terms according to the Web site's users' feedback. 

 

As many as 600,000 users voted for the new Facebook Principles and the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, PCWorld reported citing a blog post from Ted Ullyot, Facebook's general counsel. However, Facebook had said that the vote would be binding if 30 percent of the site's 200 million active users would vote for the new governing documents.  Since the number of votes wasn't met, Facebook will take the new documents as “advisory” guidelines