The landlords at City Park Apartments stuck memos on their tenants' doors last week, outlining a "Facebook addendum" requiring tenants to Friend the building on Facebook or lose their lease.
The addendum also bans negative reviews and grants the building's management unlimited power to post photos of tenants and their guests to Facebook.
“I don’t want to be forced to be someone’s friend and be threatened to break my lease because of that,” tenant Jason Ring told KSL-TV. “It’s outrageous as far as I’m concerned.”
For good measure, the Addendum bans negative reviews as well.
Apartment complex demands tenants give Facebook “like” within 5 days
[Joe Mullin/Ars Technica]
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