Have you ever considered deleting your Facebook account, if you haven't done that yet? What would be the reasons to leave it behind?

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After the recent Facebook issues I took look at the whole situation from a fresh perspective. It got me thinking about how this  problem was too big to understand all at once. So maybe if I took a look  at it from just one viewing point at a time, then I'll get a better understanding about whether to trust Facebook or not.

So I started digging about just one thing - Pictures and Videos. What  happens to your pictures and video content that you put on the  Facebook. Take a look at the part of terms and services pertaining to  the pictures and videos:

You own all of the content and information you post on    Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy  and application settings. In addition: 

1. For content that is covered by intellectual property   rights, like  photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us   the following  permission, subject to your privacy and application   settings: you grant  us a non-exclusive, transferable,   sub-licensable, royalty-free,  worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in  connection with Facebook (IP License).   This IP License ends when you  delete your IP content or your account          unless your content has been  shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of  time (but will not be available to others).
 

Notice the areas in text with a different font. Those tiny little   phrases can effectively change the whole case if you ever decided to   take Facebook to the court for stolen pictures. 

Non-exclusive: This means that while you can sell your   picture, post it on other websites, or gift it away but at the same  time  Facebook can also do the same. Keep in mind if you have a picture  you  want to sell but you posted it on Facebook then a buyer comes along  who  wants to buy that picture. If that buyer wants exclusive rights to  that  picture then forget about selling it since you have already given   non-exclusive rights to Facebook. 

Transferable: Facebook can transfer the rights it has over your picture/video to another party of it's choosing

Sub-licensable: They can sub-license your picture/video or the their rights to another party 

royalty-free:They do no owe you any royalty from what they earn after using your pictures/video

Worldwide license: They can do all of the above in the whole wide world

Now also remember that removing/deleting the pictures from your   account doesn't mean much as they will be stored in Facebook's database   for who knows how long. People claim that you can choose your privacy   settings. They should bear in mind it is the privacy from viewing and not from Facebook

Personally I might delete the account but I will think twice about uploading anything that is worth something. That being said I agree that Facebook can have a certain usefulness but its not for me.  I actually can find a use for Twitter rather than Facebook.....