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"  It turns out liking your favorite companies on Facebook might come with way worse consequences than having your friends see &amp;quot;Karen likes Count Chocula&amp;quot; on their newsfeeds. General Mills recently added a bunch of legal jargon to their website that basically states if you interact with them online, you waive your right to sue (via The New York Times). Liking their Facebook page, downloading coupons, or entering a contest can be construed as receiving a benefit from the company, which means if you ever have a problem with them, you&amp;#039;ll have to resolve it through informal negotiation or arbitration. Why is that a big deal? Basically, if they forget to mention a certain allergen in one of their products and you have a terrible reaction and have to get hospitalized, but, hey, you liked their Facebook page, you&amp;#039;re basically out of luck. You&amp;#039;re free to contact the company, but there&amp;#039;s not going to be anything legally binding to their conversations. It&amp;#039;s basically a company saying &amp;quot;Screw you, you told all your Facebook friends you&amp;#039;re into Cheerios, and that&amp;#039;s legally binding, dude.&amp;quot; Of course, just because General Mills is saying this doesn&amp;#039;t mean it will hold up in court. The policy is so new it&amp;#039;s tough to say how it will be interpreted, but it&amp;#039;d really be on them to prove that anyone who interacted with their pages online was given fair warning about the policies. It&amp;#039;s scary to think that if other companies follow suit, by clicking a button on Facebook, you could waive a bunch of your legal rights. Want more from Frank? Follow him on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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