May 22, 2010
60% of Facebook Users Consider Quitting Over Privacy? We Think Not
From ReadWriteWeb:
PC World is reporting on a survey from IT security firm Sophos that says that "60% of Facebook users consider quitting over privacy".
But does anyone really believe that 300 million of the now estimated 500 million Facebook users are actually considering quitting?
... This un-scientific survey is giving un-scientific results that are being tossed around as if they actually mean something. Instead of reading "60% of Facebook users" it should read "60% of visitors to IT security firm Sophos' website who use Facebook". Then, maybe, it would be presented in the correct context for us to understand what's being measured. Facebook's privacy flap - though a concern for the mainstream, too (as evidenced by a cover story on Time Magazine, among other things) - is primarily worrisome for the technically savvy.
There are not 300,000,000 Facebook users considering dumping the world's most popular social network.
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