Facebook and Privacy: the Tiresome Saga Continues
Which idiom do you think applies: "No news is good news" or "There's no such thing as bad press?" Personally, I'm beginning to think that the second idiom makes the most sense for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
People upset with Facebook's privacy issues staged a "quit Facebook" day on May 31. I saw one source that estimated that one of every fifteen thousand Facebook users deleted their account that day. To put that into perspective, that's 66 out of every million users. And with something close to 400 million users, Facebook might have lost a little more than 25,000 users. You and I both know that Facebook's astronomical growth rate over the last year means that they're replace those whiney people in about three or four days with completely new users. Plus the people who left probably weren't the sort of high traffic Facebook users that you and I are.
Call me a cynic, but I look for Facebook to draw the privacy issue out for as long as they can because it's free press.
Suggested reading:
- Mashable: 5 Essential Facebook Privacy Tips
- VentureBeat: Facebook's forthcoming privacy changes – it's all about the defaults
- TechCrunch: Facebook Really Wants You To Know It Cares About Privacy
- Mashable: Facebook Privacy Now Has an Official Fan Page
- Michael Gray: Google is Scarier than Facebook on Privacy
~admin
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That’s interesting to hear that despite the recent privacy sagas and the associated protest, it didn’t have much affect upon Facebook’s incredible growth.