It created a row over Facebook, when the social networking site announced that it would bring out new changes in its terms of service agreement.

In a blog posting late Tuesday night, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer of the Facebook announced the company would revert to its old terms of use.

According to the new terms, Facebook gets a "perpetual license to utilize any uploaded materials within advertising or any number of other venues--even if the user had long since deleted the content or even deleted the account”.

Facebook’s updated policies on user-generated content created a big controversy, with lots of people opposing the new terms. The number of uses in the “People Against the new Terms of Service” - a Facebook group created to oppose the changes rose to more than 88,000 on Wednesday.

According to the opponents, the new terms give company absolute right over the content that users post on the network. The critics say the new changes will give Facebook vast control over users' content.

In reaction to Facebook’s announcement, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre was on the brink of filing a legal complaint against Facebook. The EPIC president Marc Rotenberg said, "This row underlines the need for comprehensive privacy laws.”