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Taking a short break from the#Twestival Scroobls today, I just had to say something about Facebook's privacy policy shenanigans.

So Facebook reveals that they have suddenly decided that they own everything you put on Facebook which is of course audacious. The announcements leaves privacy rights activists, hippies and geeks with jaws dropped to the ground. Not for long though as just about the entire world goes mental and within 24 hours, Facebook reveals their lack of spine and hits a 180 degree u-turn on the policy. Read about it in the beeb here.

My favourite bit of all this though, is that the new (but now revoked) privacy policy is front page of the Metro this morning the same time it has actually been revoked. Good on you traditional media, always 3 days behind the news! So most people are going to spend the next few days sweating over the fact that their 'dodgy model shoot’ images are owned by Facebook until the newspapers catch on again and publish a little article about it on page 21 because the story isn't that sensational anymore and also possibly to avoid any embarrassment.