Annoying Tedious Terms of Service

I have had a lot of fun with building community sites and learning some essential PHP, all sorts of open source software, migrating data, SQL, and a few other database types, like CRM’s and whatnot. There are differences between servers, sometimes a static type service is fine, and sometimes you want a media server. When I was understanding this stuff, real-time communication through a web interface could require any number of server types, one of them was RTMFP. Maybe it still does, I don’t know. I know that was a big deal when I graduated to making those decisions. None of these things became any kind of income producers, but they were fun and it’s all a very interesting process and world.

Deconstructing your Terms of Service and Privacy Policies

I will make you WANT to read the Terms of Service and Privacy on Websites.

In this time of media reconfiguration, and the fact that Americans seem to be moving toward maintaining their First Amendment Rights in the face of the absurd onslaught of puerile behavior from internet distribution systems, here is a solution to some things that will help people actually WANT to read the TOS, Privacy, and other legal statements regarding the websites they use. We can’t expect the outlets to be honest, but we can use honesty to out maneuver them.

It falls in line with the ideas from past episodes about knowing what we don’t want. It’s more deconstructing and removing verbiage that is unnecessary for conceptual thought. Knowing what we don’t want is usually more important than knowing what we do want. Omitting the unnecessary and unclear is a recipe for a clear and confident mindset.

How often have you actually read the Terms of Service (TOS), or Privacy policies on websites, services and social media that you use? It’s so boring and tedious, right? What if there is a way to make it simple to decode and likely for you to check them out? What if it was interesting enough to make you WANT to check them out.

I had a dream once, a vision, I wanted to do something, so, I tried. I was (am) entrepreneurial and I made a couple of huge mistakes in 2009, embarrassing mistakes building a social media site. It was a lot of really hard, and wasted work. But, I learned. It didn’t even have anything to do with the topic of this blog post, and maybe I’ll write about that some day. If you want to know about the big mistakes I made, and don’t want to repeat those mistakes so you have a better chance at being successful, well, that would cost you. That was an expensive lesson and I still need to recoup from that. Unless you want to pay me to tell you that stuff, then you can suffer like I did. It’s one of those “Damn, if I knew then what I know now” things. I’ll tell you, but it will cost you.

If you want to see the document, you have to click here I would really do that because it's interesting and you will get something out of it.