That would certainly be a better name for the failed attempt at boycotting the social networking giant. Only 34,100 of Facebook’s members vowed to quit due to the lax in privacy of the site. This finding proves that Facebook is a hard habit to break. QuitFacebookDay mentions that this does not mean that people have accepted the simplified privacy controls launched last week by Facebook. They say Facebook is just that addictive. “Quitting Facebook isn’t easy,” according to the group.

Besides the people who pledged to quit, there are also those who have done so beforehand. That is why it is difficult to measure the actual number of disgruntled Facebook members. Rather than creating a group on the site they hate so much, others just slowly disappeared.

Facebook has been under siege from media due to their privacy controversies. Users were concerned about the site’s Newsfeed feature and Beacon advertising system. The networking site was forced to remove Beacon so as not to provoke more issues.

Just this December though, a controversy hounded Facebook yet again. There was a privacy roll-back in which profiles became public all of a sudden.
Just a week ago, a lot of privacy settings and options were removed. This made no sense and apparently so is the site’s constant tinkering with the privacy settings.

Mark Zuckerburg, the chief executive of Facebook, has announced in a recent press conference that these new changes had little to no effect on advertising revenues. He also mentioned that despite these protests, Facebook is still highly recommended by users to their families and friends.