A day of planned protests against the social networking site Facebook appeared to flop after just over 30,000 of the site's 500 million users deleted their Facebook accounts.
Yesterday's Quit Facebook protests were designed to show how unhappy users were with recent changes to Facebook's privacy policy, which saw a growing amount of personal information shared publicly or with third parties without the explicit consent of users.
But it seems a revised privacy policy, rolled out by Facebook late last week to simplify security settings, may have gone some way to assuaging the concerns of users. Despite thousands of people pledging to delete their Facebook accounts, it is thought that only around 33,000 people pressed the button, according to news agency AFP.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of Facebook, last week rolled out a new simplified privacy dashboard to make it easier for people to lock down their personal information with a single click. He said that any setting applied to Facebook accounts would also be applied retrospectively, and that any new features or elements added to the Facebook site would automatically default to that privacy setting
Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7792970/Quit-Facebook-protest-day-flops.html
Yesterday's Quit Facebook protests were designed to show how unhappy users were with recent changes to Facebook's privacy policy, which saw a growing amount of personal information shared publicly or with third parties without the explicit consent of users.
But it seems a revised privacy policy, rolled out by Facebook late last week to simplify security settings, may have gone some way to assuaging the concerns of users. Despite thousands of people pledging to delete their Facebook accounts, it is thought that only around 33,000 people pressed the button, according to news agency AFP.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of Facebook, last week rolled out a new simplified privacy dashboard to make it easier for people to lock down their personal information with a single click. He said that any setting applied to Facebook accounts would also be applied retrospectively, and that any new features or elements added to the Facebook site would automatically default to that privacy setting
Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7792970/Quit-Facebook-protest-day-flops.html
