Apparently Facebook has wound a couple of folks up one too many times. If you’ve been following all the skinner and skandaal in the news about the constant changes to Facebook’s security systems you’ll be aware that things may be ever so slightly lax over there.
With this in mind, some users formed a petition-style site aimed at getting as many people as possible to delete their Facebook profiles on Quit Facebook Day – today, the 31st of May 2010. Why they couldn’t just simply harrumph to themselves and quietly delete their own profiles and be done with it I’ll never know. We all know how much everyone likes a good protest, né?
At the time of writing the site had 26 084 cranky profile-owners signed up and ready to go. Hey Buddy – perhaps if you didn’t feel the need to put every single detail of your mundane existence all over the web you wouldn’t be so concerned…
26 000 out of approx 400 to 500 million users… whatever will Facebook do?
Fascinating.
Yawn…
UPDATE: Tuesday 1 June
So ummm… did it happen? If so, did anyone notice? The website Quit Facebook Day still looks exactly the same as it did yesterday, the only difference being another 8 000 or so folks have signed up.
Where are the banners? Where’s the “CONGRATULATIONS! YOU DID IT! NOW BUGGER OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE!” welcoming Flash animation (with customary booms and whizzes of course)? Hmmm?
Boring.
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