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...why would anybody pay more attention to Facebook's terms of service than to the other contracts we casually accept? Who reads the roughly 17,500-word "terms and conditions" contract governing Apple's iTunes Store before buying a song? Who digests Microsoft's nearly 5,500-word license for Windows Vista before booting up a new PC?

For that matter, how many home buyers read in full the terms of their mortgages before signing stacks of settlement documents?

From "Facebook Backs Into a 'Bill of Rights'" by Rob Pegoraro at the Washington Post.

Comments

[Mark]

I actually have looked at many of those agreements and documents (and yes, I actually read most of the ones for my mortgage). I tend not to read them too much because they really piss me off. Since I don't really feel like I can do without a computer, I may accept EULA without reading. Anything that annoying or convoluted that I don't need (like Facebook), I just do without.

Mark