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People Not So Eager to Quit Facebook After All?

"Quit Facebook Day" Illustrates that People Still Love Facebook

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

By Chris Crum

Yesterday was not only Memorial Day, but "Quit Facebook Day" as well - at least according to QuitFacebookDay.com and its highly-publicized initiative to get people to band together and leave the popular social network. That day has come and gone, and while it did manage to get 34,424 to quit (allegedly), it has pretty much been deemed a failure. Despite all the hoopla around Facebook quitting and privacy concerns, it appears that people are just not ready to part with their profiles, as they have become too big a part of their lives.

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Privacy

Privacy concerns have of course ignited this ridiculous amount of Facebook-quitting discussion. In fact, there has been so much discussion around this, we're all probably getting close to our limit. However, there is more to come, because the government isn't through with Facebook, despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying they're done making changes for a while.

The FTC has reportedly expressed interest in looking at Facebook more closely, and most recently, the company received a letter from House of Representatives Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers. In that letter, Conyers said:

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