Social Media: UGC
So, did you read this article yet?
http://searchengineland.com/when-ugc-means-users-give-away-control-24444
It starts by citing an issue between a Blogger user and a New York Judge, who forced Google to turn over a user’s information. Did you know that when you sign up for Blogger and many of the other social sites, you’re giving them ownership of your information?
This just reinforces my constant admonition that people should have their blogs on their own hosting accounts. You can’t be ratted out by Google or anyone else. You own your content and your information and god help the rotting slimer that tries to get it away from me. 
Seriously, I don’t want Blogger or WordPress.com having control over what’s in my blog. It’s not so much about what I say because I’m not apt to writing libelous information or any other of the nasty stuff that goes down online at times, it’s about protecting my content!
When you have a WordPress.com blog, they can shut you down, without warning and without recourse. If you post affiliate links… gone. If you try to add an optin box, you can’t. And, if they decide to nix your blog, you can’t get any of the content back … at all.
UGC = Users Giveaway Control, according to Ciarán Norris’s article, and that’s exactly what you do at Blogger, at WordPress.com, at Tumblr, and many other sites. Think twice before wasting your time and energy.
