Facebook now owns 25 things about you.

OHNOES! Facebook can now commercialize my super pokes! From Chicago Tribune:

Facebook knows your age, alma mater and favorite band. It's seen your spring break photos and read the messages you sent to your friend. So, can it do anything it wants with that content?

Legally, almost. But in practice, the rules that govern Facebook's relationship with its users are abstract and subject to constant negotiation.

The blogosphere was abuzz Monday after a popular consumer affairs blog pointed out changes to Facebook's terms of use that the social networking Web site quietly made earlier this month. The issue of who controls the data posted to the site is a massive gray area that continues to evolve as Internet companies and consumers shape social norms on how to define trust in the digital age and share their lives through new technology.

[...] "They're saying, 'Once data gets in our database, we can do whatever we want with it,' " said Eric Goldman, associate professor and director of the High Tech Law Institute at the Santa Clara University School of Law.