“For us it comes down to two things: fair choices and best intentions. In our view, Facebook doesn’t do a good job in either department,” the organizers, who did not identify themselves, said on their website for Monday’s “Quit Facebook Day.”<\/p>\n
“Facebook gives you choices about how to manage your data, but they aren’t fair choices.”<\/p>\n
The group said at 2300 GMT that 32,749 had dropped out of the Facebook universe.<\/p>\n
Facebook.com is visited monthly by 540 million people, or slightly more than 35 percent of the Internet population, according to Google data.<\/p>\n
Facebook is overhauling privacy controls in the face of a barrage of criticism that it is betraying the trust which has made it the world’s biggest social network.<\/p>\n
Facebook redesigned its privacy settings page to provide a single control for content and “significantly reduce” the amount of information that is always visible to everyone.<\/p>\n
Facebook also said it is giving users more control over how outside applications or websites access information at the service.<\/p>\n
Critics continue to call for Facebook to make all user information private by default and then let people designate what they want to share case-by-case in an “opt-in” model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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