Protest Continues At Facebook Boycott Call

Facebook protest against the
attitude that ignores the protection of personal
privacy rights of users, the more intense.
As quoted from the BBC website, the senators in the United States issued a public appeal for
Facebook to rethink its policy of protecting the privacy of Facebook users. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) even issued a petition addressed to the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. ACLU asked Zuckerberg to provide a way to control all the information to
share users through Facebook.
Official body which deals with consumer data protection is also called the Facebook privacy
policy changes as a step that can not be accepted.

Glare was addressed to the most popular social networking Facebook because it did not enact
privacy options in Opt. Thus the default standard, user information such as postings, photos, and
profile data will be viewed publicly.
Some time ago, Facebook launched a new feature, Instant Personalization, also triggering the
disclosure of personal data their users. Personal data such as email Facebook users can in the perforated with cross site scripting through the holes that were found from the site Yelp.
Besides the facebookers private conversation using chat box on Facebook also had time to leak and can diintip by other users.
This sparked protests by Facebook users. Charlotte Crockett, 29 years young Dutchman, is one of more than one hundred thousand
supporters of the group calling itself the " Facebook, Respect My Privacy! " made by the organization MoveOn.org. This group also
urged Facebook to make changes to the privacy policy.

"I am very concerned about people who do not understand how they should limit the information
they share on facebook. My colleagues my age are still many who do not understand, even the
example of my parents," said Crockett told abcnews.
To provoke the consciousness of the other facebookers to be more concerned with their personal data privacy rights, some Facebook
users are also making a parody site called Youropenbook.

At the site, displayed post-funny and embarrassing post from users of Facebook, which they broadcast unconsciously because they are not doing correctly privacy settings.
For example, an employee who admitted posting truant from their job, or status that includes the
recognition of an employee who work on his superiors, and others.
Even resistance escalating Facebook users to boycott Facebook on the plan. Facebook users set up the movement Facebookprotest.com , plan to boycott Facebook on June 6, 2010.

On that day, the supporters of this motion asking Facebook users to not sign in to Facebook all day,
to support their movement. Your lack of response to unrest sensitifan
Facebook Facebook users recently had triggered a wave of antipathy toward the movement's social
networking site.

If someone typed the words "How to quit ..." in the search field of Google, the search engine will
automatically continue the series of words into a sentence "how to quit Facebook" in the top row.
That is because the number of searches on the internet about how to stop using Facebook.
Underneath, the new search results to follow, as a way to stop smoking, how to quit from the
job, and ways to stop consuming alcoholic beverages.
Later some influential facebookers like Peter Rojas, Matt Cutts, Leo Laporte, Cory Doctorow also
choose to close their accounts on social networking pages.

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