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Happy "Quit Facebook" Day

By Jacqueline Lipton

Today is "Quit Facebook" Day - a day of protest where a group of disgruntled Facebook members are encouraging others to get off the social network site.  Many of the concerns of the users have been about ways in which Facebook manages user data and doesn't make it particularly easy for users to control their own private information, despite recent moves by the company to improve its privacy settings.  While the number of people deleting their profiles from Facebook forever may not do much immediate damage to the company - and may be largely ineffective for personal data which has already found its way into the hands of third parties - it does squarely raise concerns about privacy on Facebook (again). 

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on May 31, 2010 (boomark / email).