A bill of rights for users of the social web

I have just been pointed in the direction of a proposed bill of rights for users of the social web via Lasica's Social Media blog.

Whilst in principle I would love to see many of the proposed suggestions in the bill of rights acted upon by the 'social web', it is interesting to note how different the reactions are to when it was suggested that there should be a blogger's code of conduct. Too often on the web I feel that there tends to be a lot of talk about the individual's rights, and not enough about their responsibilies. Afterall, we all seem to know that we can be trusted, its just everyone else who can't.

It will be difficult to get any organisation to apply such rights retrospectively without them being forced to, most probably through a competitor seeing the opportunity to gain competitative advantage. But will such advantage come too late? Whilst teenagers may be happy to create new profiles at the drop of the hat, the older generation (who are possibly more likely to place store in a bill of rights) are more reluctant to lose a network that they have spent time and effort establishing.