I, an everyday user of Meta's Facebook platform, find myself torn between maintaining social connections with our loved ones and safeguarding privacy. The upcoming Jan. 2025 Facebook Terms and Conditions are set to intensify this. The comprehensive nature of Meta services connects us to friends, family, and strangers, but at a price we shouldn't have to pay - our privacy and content rights. 

With the advent of the new terms, service usage analytics will not be the only string of data at stake. Targeted ads and sponsored content come from our personal details, private messages, location data, and even micro-movements. Considering that Facebook had 2.8 billion monthly active users in 2020 (source: Statista), these changes spell danger to an enormous global population's private and sensitive data.

In 2018, up to 87 million Facebook users had their data improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica (source: New York Times). It's a clear demonstration of the potential misuse of vast amounts of information. With the 2025 Terms and Conditions, we risk exposing even more. We must hold them accountable. 

This isn't just a danger to individuals. Data privacy violations also carry societal consequences, in this era when content rights are debated and unclear. The terms are unclear on whether our creative work could be appropriated for purposes like AI training to produce work based on your own. Placing our every-day comedians and poets to the side (just for a moment), think of those who depend on social media for their livelihood, their careers. What happens? Well, that, unfortunately, is unclear. 

Oh, and if you accept January 2025 rights, you consent to ANY future changes. By simply staying on, you're opting in automatically (Source: E.R. Burgess's Facebook’s New Terms of Service — What You’re Giving Up in 2025)

We urge lawmakers, regulators and all believers in a free society to hold Facebook accountable. We are the users. If we boycott these conditions, maybe Facebook will change these conditions. Let's stand up together. Sign this petition to turn the tide against these invasive terms and conditions.

AI Note: I utilized AI for a framework of language, which I made my own. Likewise, this graphic is AI. I know, it's confusing and complex. Am I a hypocrite? I'm following advice, "To use AI to help protect yourself against AI," from E.R. Burgess. Nicely put. 

If you want to collaborate, whether for art, journalism, news, etc. let me know. We only have 1 month. Let's make this change.