“Do not forget that tomorrow the new Facebook rule begins, where they can use your photos. Do not forget. The deadline today! "

No later than 2012 in the Russian -speaking Facebook, and then in other social networks, appeared and began to viruly spread posts in clumsy Russian with slightly different in form, but the same texts in content. They scare users by the fact that the social network introduces new rules according to which "everything that you have ever published is becoming public from today."

To avoid troubles, you need to allegedly urgently copy and place the following content in your profile: “In response to the new Facebook policy [substitute the name of any other social network] I realize that all my personal data, illustrations, drawings, articles, pictures, photos, videos, and so on are objects of my copyright (according to the Berne Convention). For commercial use of all the above -mentioned copyright objects in each case, my written resolution is necessary! ”

Surprisingly, a huge number of refutations from the social networks themselves and in various media cannot stop the ongoing chain reaction of the repost of this one hundred percent fake. Its author is unknown, but it is known that about him as a fake for the first time told American ABC News TV channel in November 2012. The channel journalist noted that the same message was distributed in the English -speaking Facebook back in 2009-2010. Thus, this post is no less than ten years.

The truth is that no post can prohibit anyone separately. International copyright protection laws are constantly in force without exception. But, registering in any social network, you must put a tick that you are accepting a user agreement. From this moment, your publicly posted photos for almost any purpose and on any conditions can, for example, use Facebook. And almost all other services that allow users to load their content, too.

In fact, this most often there is nothing wrong with this, and the owners of the social network do not wish you evil. Without this agreement, they could not, for example, launch a mobile application, because formally placing your content there can be regarded as a new publication. Yes, you provide Facebook or VKontakte the right to publish a book consisting of your posts and photographs. But you should be aware that they are unlikely to do this.

As for personal data, they are not related to copyright and are protected by other laws. Social networks most often Leave For itself, the right to collect them, analyze and even transfer them to third parties, but impersonally - so that it was impossible to establish you personally on them. And then you can decide whether to trust them with administrators or not.

How noted David Mikkelsen, the largest fact -check resource Snopes on the Internet, those who do not agree with the information policy of Facebook, have only two options: do not register in it or demand a change in this policy from the social network itself. In the meantime, the number of people wishing to communicate on social networks is growing steadily. Together with it, the number of reposts of this modern "Letters of happiness". For example, in VKontakte it has already exceeded 322,000.