But in all seriousness, I think you’re being a little paranoid about this. Remember, they had all that in their TOS before, the only change to it was the addition of the clause allowing them to keep it indefinitely. I don’t know why you’re more upset about it now than you were before, because things haven’t changed terribly much.

The addition of that clause isn’t so they could make a profit selling your pictures. It’s there because someone might notice that a message or a wall post sent to someone else lingered around after they deleted their account, and thought they could make some money by suing Facebook. They’re just covering their ass.

Also, it’s important to note that the terms are subject to your privacy settings. They can’t do much with anything you post as non-public.

But let’s pretend that’s not true. Let’s say that Facebook has the ability to do whatever they want with anything you post, regardless of any privacy settings. I really don’t care. I wouldn’t be able to make a dime off any of my pictures, I doubt they could do much better. If I could, I would certainly never post them to Facebook in the first place. I would also never post anything that I wanted to keep absolutely private. If you trust anything other than a face-to-face conversation as a secure medium, then you’re being naive.

What’s the bottom line? Don’t post anything to the internet that you don’t want up there forever. That has been true for some time, and it is still true. Facebook’s TOS modifications don’t change that.