It started with a single tip, emailed to a single website.

The Consumerist, a consumer advocacy website, posted an article entitled Facebook's New Terms of Service - 'We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content, Forever.' The article was picked up by several other blogs and found its way quickly to Twitter, where it quickly was assigned the #facebooktos and #tos hashtags.

Some twitterers swore to delete their Facebook accounts, others swore to create Anti-TOS Groups on Facebook (I chose to boycott Facebook completely). By...