After a big hooplah started vis-a-vis a change to Facebook's terms of service agreements a couple months back, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the social networking site's several hundred million users that future changes to the membership agreement would be subject to a democratic vote, and said that a new version of the terms based on input and comments from you would be coming soon. Now it's here, and the voting has begun.

The documents are vast so we won't attempt to summarize them here, but if you want to take the time to read them and cast your vote, just log into Facebook and head over to the voting app that Zuckerberg's people have set up. It includes not only the complete texts of the new and old terms of service documents, but also a FAQ-like open letters explaining everything from content ownership rights to the reasoning behind the site's nudity policy.

Voting ends on April 23rd, so you've got a few days to mull it over. The only thing is that Facebook doesn't provide a clear outline of what's different between the old and the new documents, so you'll need that time to read up to make an educated decision.

The voting app asks up front if you want the new ToS that "reflects comments from users and experts," or the old one that "does not reflect comments from users and experts." The presentation will probably decide the vote, since most people won't take the time to read the documents carefully. Most folks will vote for the new one. Surely the one that reflects user input is better right?

We'd better hope so.

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