"Sick of Facebook’s lack of respect for your data? Add you name to commit and quit!"
Yesterday was Quit Facebook Day, organised by two developers Matthew Milan and Joseph Dee, when more than 33,000 Facebook users pledged to remove their profiles in protest at the site’s shifting policies on privacy and personal data. So how did it go?
By 10pm, Milan and Dee said all 33,313 people had gone ahead and pulled out of the site. That is a significant number of people, because it represents only the most extreme views of a much larger group. Many more are concerned about Facebook’s privacy issues, but not enough to leave.
