Quit Facebook Day

I wrote a story in today’s newspaper about Quit Facebook Day, which as of this writing is an online movement with 28,266 people pledged to leave the social network.

This sounds impressive until you find out there’s close to 500 million people using Facebook and the vast majority of them apparently don’t care enough about recent privacy concerns to warrant cutting off their ties to Facebook friends and family.

There’s a blog post that goes with the story in which I give three options for dealing with your privacy on Facebook.

The story itself started as a very brief story (what we call a “brite”) and then got a little bit longer and then bounced from one section of the paper to another, so I can see a little bit of the seams of where it turned from one thing into another, but overall I think it works well with the blog entry to give the lay of the land.