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... so due to Facebook's recent security breaches, a recent British poll posits that 1/2 of facebook users are likely to quit. I say "horse-do-do!" Facebook currently boasts over 400 million users and if it goes down to 200 million, I will eat something hat-like in nature.
The poll gave 5 options
30% are "highly likely" to quit Facebook due to privacy concerns
30% said it was "possible"
12% of respondents said that won't leave the site
12% said it's "not likely"
And 16% have already stopped using facebook.
Quite frankly, I'd love to know just WHO was polled, because if these stats didn't include high school students, then they're majorly skewed. I mean granted, all stats are skewed, but still.
The world has come too addicted to facebook to quit. Sure you might change your privacy pictures ... or take down / un-tag those photos of you upside down on a keg in a short dress (not me though, I love those photos), but I say the likelihood of quitting facebook is SLIM.
I think the pole should have had more realisitc options.
1 - I quit and I'm not going back ever, regardless of any new privacy procedures
2 - I quit till it's safer
3 - I am quitting UNLESS there are new saftey procedures enacted
4 - I'm not quitting, but I'm taking down those photos of last weekend, and that note my opinion of the CIA's usefulness to this country.
5 - I'm only likely to quit if there are more safety breaches in the future.
6 - I'm not quitting, ever, facebook is my crack... and I'm never going to rehab.
I feel like you would have gotten more honest results.
Seriously, I'm one of those people who facebook is one of my drugs. I'm out to disprove Dunbar's Number.
This is a TERRIFIC little rant! I love those 'polls'. It always amazes me because I never get asked to respond to polls nor do my friends or family so where are they getting all their stats? And I LOVE my FB account and Lord have mercy...I'm 40...no where close to a teeny bopper. And my husband who vowed he'd never N-E-V-E-R get a FB account now has one and he checks it every single night. Trust me that's sorta like an event Biblical in nature!
ReplyDeleteWell, anyway, loved the random rant and I can't wait to read more!
Cordially,
L. Avery Brown
http://whenasouthernwomanrambles.blogspot.com/
http://realbloggersunited.blogspot.com/
I enjoyed your article because of comments made by exploration faccebook.
ReplyDeleteI doubt half the users are going to leave because of a glitch. Privacy is more of a thing where we don't need the whole world to see our kids and ridiculous pics and stuff.
ReplyDeleteIt was just a fluke, it happened once I think on a journal I had. I won't be leaving facebook for it, that's for sure.
Nice rant.....I like your poll answer "I'm not quitting, ever, facebook is my crack... and I'm never going to rehab.".....funny
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