1. Terms and Conditions in a Social Networking Site Presented by Srividya Subbiah Team #6

2. Team Information Mentors Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue Mr. Dilhar De Silva Team Members Shital Parikh Sandeep Chavva Pareddy Karunakar Reddy Srividya Subbiah

3. MySpace.com Terms and Conditions of MySpace.com Does not claim any ownership rights User is responsible for the content posted It may delete content Content is not necessarily reviewed prior to posting Does not monitor for inappropriate content “Report Inappropriate Link”

4. Facebook.com The user is solely responsible for contents The company may review, but it is not obligated to review the site It may delete contents that violates Facebook code of conduct

5. Bebo.com, Xanga.com The user is solely responsible for the content that he posts. May delete contents when appropriate Not responsible for Monitoring Filtering Pre-screening

6. Social Networking Sites Other Social networking sites iMeem, yahoo! 360, Classmates, Hi5, Live Journal, Friendster, tagged.com, Hoverspot, Buzznet, orkut, my YearBook, Social networking Sites enforce Similar TOS rules.

7. TOS of Social Networking Sites The user is responsible for the contents posted The Content posted should not violate privacy rights, publicity rights, copyright rights, or other intellectual property rights of any person.

8. TOS of Social Networking Sites The site Claims no ownership over any Content posted by its users does not guarantee the accuracy, quality or integrity of content may remove content that violates TOS Does not actively monitor or prescreen the contents

9. Contents Checking Disadvantages Inserts delay for the contents to be posted People want to see immediate response Essence of Social Networking is lost

10. Solution Similar to the popular Social Networking sites, we can have TOS TOS mentions about the content that is prohibited and that can be posted Contents that violates TOS can be removed

11. From MySpace.com

12. From FaceBook.com

13. References http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=114\ http://www.myspace.com/Modules/Common/ Pages/TermsConditions.aspx http://www.myspace.com/Modules/Common/ Pages/TermsConditions.aspx http://www.facebook.com/terms.php http://www.bebo.com/TermsOfUse.jsp http://help.xanga.com/about/termsofuse.htm http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/ut os-173.html http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/ut os-173.html

14. References http://www.imeem.com/terms.aspx http://www.hi5.com/friend/displayTOS.do http://www.tagged.com/terms_of_service.ht ml http://www.tagged.com/terms_of_service.ht ml http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos.bml http://www.hoverspot.com/TermsofService.p hp http://www.hoverspot.com/TermsofService.p hp http://www.buzznet.com/www/terms/ http://www.myyearbook.com/terms.php