Quit Facebook Day FLOPS: Only 1 In 15,000 Pledge To Quit

VentureBeat:

An attempt to stage a mass defection from Facebook today has fizzled. For every Facebook user who pledged to delete their account as part of today's Quit Facebook Day campaign, there are more than 15,000 other Facebook members who didn't, using Facebook's recent estimate of 500 million active accounts.

Read the whole story: VentureBeat

Comments

[loki]

12:59 PM on 06/02/2010

why do people sign up for facebook and MySpace, Twitter and the likes?

Why dont people drop facebook?

Simply put "Stupid is as stupid does"

and as we all have seen, there is an over abundance of stupid in the world.

[MrVee]

08:02 PM on 06/01/2010

No surprise to me. I asked in another topic on Facebook exodus, if they do leave, where are they going to go? Turns out, yet another stunt. Probably setup by Rupert Murdock's Myspace garbage.

[ar6557]

06:41 PM on 06/01/2010

I hate that I get notified of other ppls comments

[frmadistance]

04:17 PM on 06/01/2010

Wrong. Im sure many people who were tempted to join will never do so now. Ever.

Im one.

[Kentae Miller]

03:51 PM on 06/01/2010

Any type of mass "quitting" from any type social networking site will happen in a gradual state, over the course of time, not all at once. Hell, not even Myspace or for that matter Friendster have ceased to exist because of any type mass migration or "defection". All they have done is made minor changes to appease current members and attract new or old ones. And while "Quit Facebook day" is seen as a flop, it still may have some effect that is yet unseen.

[ainfl]

02:20 PM on 06/01/2010

People think they are far more interesting than they actually are. Facebook gives them a forum for their banality.

[JessCostello]

02:19 PM on 06/01/2010

That's not a small number at all. Does HuffPo get money from Facebook?

[poster1122]

02:58 PM on 06/01/2010

It was a month-long campaign that yielded 15K people to quit. During the same period, Facebook gained roughly 150K people/day * 30 days, or around 4.5 million people. The 15K people barely rise to the level of a rounding error.

[Mr-Mikey]

02:12 PM on 06/01/2010

I go through every few weeks and scan my privacy settings to protect myself on facebook..

I run addons that disable ads, and manually approve which flash/javascripts I want run.. I see no Ads, I get no spyware crap.. Facebook is almost peaceful.

Why would I quit, when If I police my information carefully and not unload my entire lifes history into it .. Nothing is there to be shared?

Oh sure they get my full name, but little else :)

[abuja19]

01:58 PM on 06/01/2010

People are too tied into Facebook to quit. I knew this whole "quit facebook day" crap wouldn't succeed. If people don't want their personal info published to other sites they should post personal stuff on facebook.

[Indon]

01:55 PM on 06/01/2010

What I do instead is report every ad Facebook displays, and never will I click an ad or use a product advertised on the service.

Facebook can let advertisers look at my data, but I'll not let them make a cent off of it.

And really, this is how we can deal with all advertisements - the reason corporations go to such lengths to scam us with ads is because they work, after all. All we need to do is stop trusting corporations, and willfully refuse every single advertisement or marketing scheme we see, and work to strip the profits from every company that follows such unethical methods, and eventually we might get slightly more ethical businesses.

[Lochness71]

12:46 PM on 06/01/2010

I would not cause this online cause a complete flop. It raised awareness about privacy issues and I changed my security settings back to more secure settings because of it.

[MexiChick67]

12:45 PM on 06/01/2010

I'm not ready to quit. I'm happy w/ FB. I only friend people I know and that I care about. My close friends are all FB users, so we keep connected this way. I don't even do the games and stuff, because I don't have the time. I'd rather tend to my real garden.

[edified]

01:14 PM on 06/01/2010

Exactly what I was going to say!! Especially when you ended on the gardening thing!! Me too!!
It's such an easy way to keep track of friends and my family, something I wouldn't be so good at if it weren't for FB. And if anyone played any of the games or sent a heart or a pillow, FB already gleaned all our info so I really am not worried about it!!

[kinogod]

12:38 PM on 06/01/2010

I love being one in 15,000!

[jde]

12:25 PM on 06/01/2010

Wait. Is this a press release?

[lvogt]

12:03 PM on 06/01/2010

I tried it for a month and quit out of shear boredom. Not only don't I care to share that much about my mundane life but I really don't want to know that much about anyone else's especially people who want to friend me that I barely know. That just seemed weird to me.