Privacy problems drive users to quit Facebook

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After the high comes the lull. And Facebook frenzy seems to be on a downward spiral. The “Quit Facebook Day” campaign, which encourages users to delete their accounts or commit “Facebook Suicide” this May 31st is gaining momentum. While die-hard loyalists brush it off, a large number of youngsters agree that confidential data uploaded by a user on the networking site is not handled properly, and what is uploaded could later return to stab the user in the back. And by the growing number of registrations on QuitFacebookDay.com website, it seems many are troubled by privacy issues. But although 14,000 and counting, have joined the ‘campaign’ Facebook users in the city think it hardly makes any sense.
Soumya Jain, Web entrepreneur, says, “Privacy factors shouldn’t bother people because it’s the content that they choose to upload that goes online. I like the networking site and believe people shouldn’t put up data that they don’t want viewable and there shall be no privacy issues then.”
But rumours that Zynga Games would pull out of Facebook and Farmville would now be hosted on a separate portal has worried avid fans.
Garima Chopra, MA student, puts down her fetish for Facebook solely on Farmville and says she would follow suit if the game moves out. Garima adds, “I was introduced to Farmville by a friend and have been hooked on to it. But constant rumours that it would move off has troubled many fans I know, so people fed up of such baseless rumours would quit Facebook as the habit is hard to get away from.”
Though some are joining the campaign for sheer fun, as all it requires to join is an email address.
Gunjan Piplani, copywiter, avers, “I don’t think managing of data is really a problem and it cannot be choice based. It seems some people with a lot of time on their hands and nothing worthwhile to do have thought of this ‘different’ campaign. And people are joining them just for fun.”