Online Standards of Service Use: Assignment One

These are a few online companies that use the terms and service agreements, or get you to agree to other major conditions before use.

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Snapchat
• Youtube

There are many more though, for  almost all social media and media sharing websites (like Youtube or Flikr) have these terms. Because of this, there are a lot of forums discussing a websites terms and service agreements, and I think some of them should be payed attention to.

The Google Privacy Policy states that they will be collecting your information to provide better services for all  of their users, not just you. When you create a Google Account, the collect information about the services you use and how they use them, selling that information to companies who will bombard you with relatable ads.

Youtube's Terms of Service states, like many other terms do, that Youtube is may modify their terms, and by agreeing to these terms, you are bound to the modifications. Even after you have already made your account and read and agreed to their terms, they can change these terms and you will still be bound to them.

The Microsoft Services Agreement lists the rules they wish you to follow and the consequences for not following them, but then they state that they cannot monitor all of the services and therefore make no attempt to. I guess I can understand this, because there are a lot of users to monitor, but when they say that they do not attempt to, it makes me feels as if people can easily break the rules and not get caught, which can endanger you as a user.

Twitter's Terms of Service state that by agreeing to these terms, you consent to the use and collection of your information, including transfer of your information to other countries. They take your information and sell it to third parties who store it in different parts of the world.

SafetyDawg's Terms and Conditions say that some of their content may contain viruses and corrupt data, but they are not responsible for any computer viruses you may obtain from downloading data from or through their site. This is definitely something to be worried about, especially since they know that there are viruses on their site, but they are not trying to contain them. Viruses can lead to leaks of personal information and can hurt your computer.