Today is being dumbed as quit Facebook day. The formal Facebook revolt was announced a couple of weeks ago over the growing debate of how Facebook uses and protects individuals data and personal information. Only a few people have vowed to quit amongst the 400 million users. In response to the users concerns, Facebook have announced an overview of it’s privacy policy.

So, are you going to quit? The answer by most people will probably be no. Facebook has integrated into many people’s daily lives, and one of the few websites that users cannot be dragged away from. Whether you play the annoying FarmVille, write pointless status updates or read so called friends equally pointless status updates, Facebook has become important to a lot of web users.

Facebook has announced new privacy controls in response to the criticism it has received recently, and the rolling out of these has begun. I am personally not a big fan of Facebook (as you can gather), which is purely due to how insecure your personal information is stored on Facebook. In response I have removed all my personal information including photographs, which does defeat the object of the service; however, I do not want my information being made available for all and sundry to find via a simple search over at Google. I do hope Facebook addresses these issues and gives complete control to the user in a simplistic interface and not currently with 179 different settings. A simple private on or off button would suffice.

I will watch with anticipation.