They’re Back: Hoax Status Updates Claiming Copyright to Intellectual Property on Facebook

We at AllFacebook.com hereby declare that the status updates many Facebook users are seeing in their News Feeds by fellow users declaring their personal details off-limits to Facebook are utterly and completely meaningless.

IHearbyDeclare650We at AllFacebook.com hereby declare that the status updates many Facebook users are seeing in their News Feeds by fellow users declaring their personal details off-limits to Facebook are utterly and completely meaningless.

Similar misguided status updates went viral in November 2012 and June 2012, following Facebook’s announcement of potential changes to its data use policy and statement of rights and responsibilities and its initial public offering, respectively.

Gawker shared the latest version of the bogus status updates, as well as reasons why they are useless.

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