Will You Quit Facebook By May 31?

By Cara

Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 17:06

Are you addicted to Facebook? Nine out of ten people are addicted to Facebook, to the extent that they go back to their profile at least three to four times a day. Whether it is to update their own profile, so to see their friends updates or to do some serious networking, Facebook has become an essential part of the youth.

You may have started with a simple desire to stay in touch with your friends or probably make a few new friends online but do you now feel that it violates your privacy? Have you come across times when your personal information is fetched and circulated in undesirable places?

You have two options to choose from: one, to make use of the security options given to you in your profile and secondly, to close down your account.

If you think Facebook fails to respect the privacy of your personal data, you may join the group – Quit Facebook. More than 4000 users have joined the cause of quitting Facebook by 31st of May.

For all of them, quitting Facebook resolves around privacy. Violating privacy is a legitimate concern. Most of them believe that the security options given in Facebook is very complicated and beyond the technical knowledge of layman.

It seems that Facebook is not heading towards a positive web environment. Keeping the cumulative effects of Facebook in mind, many users have joined the cause of quitting Facebook.