As I talked about yesterday, there is some debate about whether or not Quit Facebook Day was a success or not. My take is, yes, if and only because it raised people’s awareness about privacy issues—Quit Facebook Day Didn’t Fail It Acheived Its Goals: Discussion and Awareness—Rob Cottingham doesn’t feel that it was because of the focus on more people not quitting—Why Quit Facebook Day didn’t work | Social Signal.
But here’s the thing, what if the organizers had highlighted something like “I’m not going to quit Facebook, but you inspired me to check/change my privacy settings…” that would have made a huge difference in how the “failure” was perceived. I posed this to Rob on Twitter and his response gave me an idea:
@trishussey Absolutely. I wish the campaign had given people a way to register that they’d done that.
link: Twitter / Rob Cottingham: @trishussey Absolutely. I …
Okay, then, let’s have a poll here.
As unscientific as this might be, the more this poll is spread around the Net the better the data we’d get.
As a result of discussions about Quit Facebook Day and Facebook privacy controls did you recently review/check/update your Facebook privacy settings?
Please tweet, share this far and wide so we can show that the anecdotal evidence is correct: People might not have quit Facebook in protest, but they are more aware about privacy and did something about it.
