The campaign to quit Facebook was supposed to end yesterday, May 31st. Nearly 35,000 users stated they would quit Facebook in light of privacy issues and some other minor items to note, but the numbers that actually did quit Facebook are staggering. It seems that perhaps the need to communicate is worth the cost of some “privacy issues.”
Facebook has nearly 400 million users, and if the campaign was successful to quit Facebook that would take the social media giant down to roughly 399,965,000 users. The number hardly seems damaging considering reports suggest 374,000 or more join the site every single day. That still puts Facebook in the black in user growth.
Many analysts and experts predicted the failure to quit Facebook, and it seems they are right. You can comb groups and pages throughout the social media hub to find hundreds of “I hate Facebook” related content, but the ironic factor is that they are using Facebook to tell everyone that they can’t go on using Facebook.
It seems the benefits outweigh the cost of “privacy.” While the site is “free” from fiscal responsibility for us (the users), we have to realize that information sharing is what social media is all about to a degree. Our information that we post to Facebook or any social networking site such as Twitter is their currency to their supporters – the venture capitalists and the thousands of businesses looking to advertise to you.
