LIVING: Are You Ready To Quit Facebook?
SodaHead Living
2010/05/19 23:55:09
To protest Facebook’s latest changes to its privacy policy, a group of dissatisfied users have teamed up to organize a Quit Facebook Day.
Facebook’s newest privacy policy, which offers 50 settings and over 170 options, seems to be a purposeful distraction from what many see as Facebook’s mishandling of its users’ private information.
According to the organization’s website, quitfacebookday.com, “Facebook gives you choices about how to manage your data, but they aren't fair choices, and while the onus is on the individual to manage these choices, Facebook makes it damn difficult for the average user to understand or manage this. We also don't think Facebook has much respect for you or your data, especially in the context of the future.”
The website asks users to “commit to quit” Facebook on May 31 by signing their name or Twitter handle to the list of pledges. At this time, over 6000 Facebook users have committed to quitting. For those less extreme protestors, the group offers the alternative of quitting on June 6th, just for the day. They ask that you “commit to not logging in or interacting with Facebook in any way. Be sure to log out of Facebook in all of your browsers no later than the evening of June 5th. On the 6th, be sure to not use Facebook connect or click any “Like” button: basically refrain form ALL Facebook related activity.
Ironically, the group also has a page set up on Facebook.
Facebook’s newest privacy policy, which offers 50 settings and over 170 options, seems to be a purposeful distraction from what many see as Facebook’s mishandling of its users’ private information.
According to the organization’s website, quitfacebookday.com, “Facebook gives you choices about how to manage your data, but they aren't fair choices, and while the onus is on the individual to manage these choices, Facebook makes it damn difficult for the average user to understand or manage this. We also don't think Facebook has much respect for you or your data, especially in the context of the future.”
The website asks users to “commit to quit” Facebook on May 31 by signing their name or Twitter handle to the list of pledges. At this time, over 6000 Facebook users have committed to quitting. For those less extreme protestors, the group offers the alternative of quitting on June 6th, just for the day. They ask that you “commit to not logging in or interacting with Facebook in any way. Be sure to log out of Facebook in all of your browsers no later than the evening of June 5th. On the 6th, be sure to not use Facebook connect or click any “Like” button: basically refrain form ALL Facebook related activity.
Ironically, the group also has a page set up on Facebook.
Top Opinion
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mac -Holding Fast 2010/05/20 14:42:09
If you are there, even just to complain that day, it shows they get 'street cred.'
---This is the death of community where things like forgetting and even forgiving were once much more available before the internet.
It's one of the only ways I get in touch with my cousins in NY and CA. Them and my aunt, uncle and friends
No way!
But I'm not that addicted to facebook but most of my friends, my online friends, my pen friends and some of them are there! Some are in real-life!
If I quit facebook, how will I be able to contact them!? or keep in touch with them?! >.<
I never say anything i wouldn't want someone to see on the internet: you should save it for texting.
I had a situation recently, where a company my boyfriend interviewed with, looked up both of our pages! They were able to see private info. such as a work out group I'd recently joined. I felt violated. The problem is my page was set to private "friends of friends only", but It was somehow changed to public!
Myspace may be lame, but I liked it much better than facebook until spammers took over the site!
Anyways, Just don't log in. That simple.
Ironically, the group also has a page set up on Facebook. <<
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHASeriously. That's just funny.
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