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Facebook users say the company …

For the second time in history Facebook let its users vote on proposed changes to the

social network’s privacy policy.

Facebook users were given the opportunity to decide if the social network should keep

its existing Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR) and Data Use Policy or

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change it to the updated version which was introduced in May this year.

Voting took place from June 1 through to June 8 and saw around 297,883 people --

approximately 87% of all voters who participated -- opt to keep Facebook’s existing SRR

and Data Use Policy.

Despite voters’ overwhelming preference for the former policy, Facebook said the

number of users who voted was too small to be representative of the entire Facebook

community and said it would go ahead with the proposed changes.

“Despite our significant efforts to encourage users to vote, only 342,632 people

participated, which amounts to a tiny fraction of our user base of more than 900

million,” said Elliot Schrage, Vice President, Communications, Public Policy and

Marketing at Facebook.

He added, “Today Facebook will adopt the proposed updates to our Statement of Rights

and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy, which you can view by using the following

links: SRR and Data Use Policy.”

The social network previously said it would require more than 30% of its site’s users to

vote on the changes for the results to be binding.

Users, however, are claiming Facebook didn’t do enough to promote the voting

opportunity. Most said they didn’t even know about the vote until it was too late.

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“What outreach effort?” questioned Facebook user John Meyer in the comments on

Facebook’s Site Governance page. “FB did NOTHING to alert users of this vote.”

Janet Kline Cook asked, “Couldn't your ‘substantial outreach effort’ have included

something as simple as a message that showed up on each and every facebook user's

page????”

“FB needs to notify every user about proposed service changes, not just the ones who

like this annoying page,” added Ader R Oks.

Bruce Cairns said, “It's a great system they've got. 87% vote against but because they

didn't tell anyone about it or provide any way for people who did know to actually vote

via the whole range of FB apps, they can just ignore the result.”

Lorraine McGuinniety called for Facebook to hold the vote again. “Facebook should

have sent a notice via FB messages AND an email to each & every user with a subject

title that highlighted the fact there was a vote. I knew nothing about this & I'm a pretty

engaged & proactive user who regularly reassesses privacy settings. HOLD THE VOTE

AGAIN. Properly.”

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Rich • 5 mins ago

Why did Facebook cast a vote, when they were going to ignore it anyways? Goodbye Facebook,

your demise is coming.

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G.T. • 7 mins ago

I'd LMFAO if someone dealt them a king their servers and locking the rich punks out of their

own site.

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Matt • Wichita, Kansas • 1 hr 38 mins ago

Ignoring the vote may hurt their stock price - that is negative news you know, they don't care

about the people they expect to click on ads.

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Jeff • Upton, New York • 1 hr 43 mins ago

All hail, Dictator Facebook!!!

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Bob • Santa Fe, New Mexico • 1 hr 45 mins ago

Zucker thinks you're the Sucker. If you can't see where this is going, then you deserve Facebook.

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Motocycleguy • Altamonte Springs, Florida • 2 hrs 8 mins ago

300k voted pretty impressive! I didn't think they had that many real users. 900 million lmao!!

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Jody • Caribou, Maine • 3 hrs ago

Why would the wealthy facebook owners want to hear from its poor users?

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Steve • 3 hrs ago

I wasn't even aware of a vote and I'm on there at least once a day....

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D.J. • 3 hrs ago

Sounds a lot like our govt.

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datruthiness • 3 hrs ago

An outreach effort would be a Facebook message to every user. Which they can do easily.

Cowards and twits. Why my usage of FB is waaaay down. Cannot trust them

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greg • Kansas City, Missouri • 3 hrs ago

That's why FB is free.....can you imagine paying for a service that treats you this way

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Anthony • Norwich, New York • 3 hrs ago

Most of us didn't even know there was a vote or a pending change. This article was the first I

heard of it. Good job FB, about as effective a democracy as Syria

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William Schaeffer • 5 hrs ago

Soon, we'll be required to join facebook if we want to keep our jobs. And then we will be

instructed on the proper opinions and comments.

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DABOOGEYMAN • 5 hrs ago

delete your accounts ppl, then in a year it may come back and all the greedmongering over it

will be over and it will be the ppls social page again, now its just turning into a giant invaisive

add that tries to force you into stuff

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joseph • 5 hrs ago

you know the truth is of the 900 million so called users, a lot of those are ficticious, redundant

proxy users. Heck I made my cat a user as well! there's no way he can vote.

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Levan • Lanham, Maryland • 5 hrs ago

An even better solution would be to stop using facebook altogether

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F • 6 hrs ago

For those Facebook don't care, they will let us vote on it. For things that make them money, they

certainly won't.

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If FB is integrated to iPhone in next iOS, I guess Facebook will have access to my phone book

and contact list on Iphone also. So they can start contacting those people on my iPhone and use

my name to advertise to them? :)

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Alejandro • 6 hrs ago

FB is not favorable among its own customers now.......

their decline is on the way.........

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radical c • 6 hrs ago

It sounds like FB was going to make the change, regardless of the results. A small percentage of

the US population actually votes, does that mean the elected official doesn't get the job? No.

When conducting a survey, you cannot possibly poll everyone, so only a sample of the

population gets to participate. It would seem to me that 87% of 342,632 would be enough to

gauge the desire of the users.

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NaturesSuperPride • Jacksonville, Florida • 6 hrs ago

We're going to let you vote on something, but if you don't choose what we want, we're going to

do what we planned anyway.

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Frank B • 6 hrs ago

342,632 people that voted were all the active users of FB, there is no 900 million unique users

hahaha

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fiasco • 6 hrs ago

Facebook users need to understand Zucky boy used the jewish vote method.

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BRENDA TROTTER • Livonia, Michigan • 6 hrs ago

Facebook have become money mongers and are only interested in their pockets and how much

cash they can rake in. If all the gamers went to Zynga to play their games facebook would be

nothing. Facebook does not have their supporters interest at hand, they have turned into a bunch

of crooks who are actually aware that their time is limited and stashing it as fast as they can

make it before the fall

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mr d • Tampa, Florida • 6 hrs ago

Just like obama care ask the people what they want them give them something else anyway

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James M • 6 hrs ago

ok so a website that has half a BILLION people on it and only 300,000 voted...possibly because

no one knew about the vote...i didnt. wasnt on aware of it or i would have voted.

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Just trollin', stop h ... • 6 hrs ago

wow, they disregarded the voters. Sounds like our government.

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Dana R • 6 hrs ago

I say DELETE! Show them how we really feel! Without us users they are NOTHING!

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Teresa • 6 hrs ago

Well I hate a telephone and I hate facebook.The only reason I go on it is to see baby pictures of

my grandchildren and baby pictures of my great neices and great nephew.

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Mantorras • 7 hrs ago

ignored the votes huh lol... I see facebook has learned from how elections operate in 3rd World

countries

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Thomas • Orlando, Florida • 7 hrs ago

It may have to do with the 8 accounts I have registered. There are not 900 million active users.

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charlie • 7 hrs ago

Ha! What vote? I never even heard of ANY voting... Kinda funny for a Social Networking site

who prides themselves at blabbing all our info to whoever pays for it and notifies you every time

there's a new dumb Farmville APP...

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Todd • Seattle, Washington • 7 hrs ago

Facebook uses the same system as the government and all big business, Qui tacet consentiret or

"Silence gives consent", what else is new, more people need to speak up or the public will

continue to get screwed.

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bw022 • 7 hrs ago

I've seen that voting system before -- Somalia, Haiti, Iran, Burma, Pakistan, etc. Hold a vote,

don't allow people to know about, get to, or otherwise vote, and then screem it wasn't a fair

election when you loose. If FB wanted people to vote, it could have just required everyone to

vote the next time they connect.

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Bill • 7 hrs ago

Zuckerberg creates facebook,facebook goes public,Zuckerberg gets married,facebook stocks

loses value and crashes,Zuckerberg's wife divorces him,Facebook gets shut down,Zuckerberg

found in a one bed apartment by himself totally broke and in debt.End of Facebook for ever.One

case scenario.Just saying.....

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Gwyn • Spring Hill, Florida • 7 hrs ago

Well, that's a big lie. I have my Facebook open at least 10 hours a day, everyday for business

reasons and this article is the first that I've ever heard of this vote and now it's over. What a

bunch of politicians in disguise.

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Gail W • Chico, California • 7 hrs ago

I didn't know anything about a vote for statement of rights. What significant efforts to encourage

users to vote ??? Facebook to hold the vote again and send messages to "everyone".

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Brandon • 8 hrs ago

Facebook is a branch of the U.S. government.

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Diogenes • 8 hrs ago

I can only hope that enough FB users get mad enough to stop using it entirely. Maybe it will

fade like so many other fads. What a monumental waste of time. About as useful as a pet rock.

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TH • 8 hrs ago

Here is a thought.... quit putting your personal business for everyone to see. Simply pick up the

phone and talk to who you want to know your business. Simple enough even I can figure that

one out. LOL.

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good2b_ex • 8 hrs ago

There are just too many controversies in FB (viruses, privacy, etc) that FB isn't worth it, IMO.

Just figuring out your privacy settings takes way too much time out of a day. All for what? To

read about what someone cooked for dinner last night? Sheesh. LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO

SPEND PRECIOUS TIME ON INANITIES.

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Turtle • San Mateo, California • 8 hrs ago

Yeah, great idea, let's have another vote - maybe another 269,657,368 people will show up and

vote. That's only 787 times more than FB got the first time with their "significant" efforts to get

people to vote.

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SimpleMan • 8 hrs ago

its was such a small group of voters because most never heard their was a vote. they used to

send emails out about this stuff

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JonW • 8 hrs ago

Could you imagine what it would be like if government worked this way?

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Leon • 9 hrs ago

Reminds me of California's Prop 8.

Cali said, "That's nice, but we're going to overturn the vote. Thanks, though!"

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The proposition's aim aside; the peoples' vote was overturned is my point...

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$$$Pay Dirt$$$ • 9 hrs ago

All you FB users should be thankful they even allowed you to vote on anything they want to do.

Also over half the users probably didn't even vote in the last election. They cannot even name

the VP of the US so what makes you think they will even vote. Or even know what they are

voting about.

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Bill • 9 hrs ago

Sounds like our government.

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ato137528 • 9 hrs ago

Just stop using Facebook!!! Life WILL go on!!!

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maddie • Portland, Oregon • 9 hrs ago

They say that they have 900 million users....but they don't realize that most of those people no

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longer use their Facebooks..

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b • Columbus, Ohio • 9 hrs ago

facebook....ohh yea i remember that site...glad i dont have it anymore

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Seth • 9 hrs ago

There are probably only about a million people that actually sign on to facebook anyways...of

course the other billion that just click random things on other webpages that happen to send data

back to FB and get counted as a 'user' didn't login to vote themselves.

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R • 9 hrs ago

Someone should teach FB how statistics work

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Karl S • 9 hrs ago

This is exactly how polling companies conduct their research...and it's pretty darn accurate.

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Tiffany • 9 hrs ago

I'm on the site periodically throughout the day, every day, and had no idea that there was ever a

vote.

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GUARD DOG • Los Angeles, California • 9 hrs ago

facebook sucks, much like MySpace.

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Chris • 10 hrs ago

so happy that facebook is failing, 900million users w/ 500million active users

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Whatever • San Diego, California • 10 hrs ago

"Mommy, can I have a cookie?" "No." *Eats one anyway*

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Tim • 10 hrs ago

FB: we know the majority didn't even know about this and the ones who did said no, so we will

go with our decision to change. This was actually just a way to make you guys feel like you

guys had power. In no way would it went your way.

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Dave D • 10 hrs ago

how about writing a little in the article about what the changes were?

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Rusty • 10 hrs ago

I did not know about this voting, and Im sure alot of other did`nt know either.

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paterno • 10 hrs ago

FaceBook = waste of time

WHO cares about vacation pictures, baby pictures, yoga epiphanies, advertising your real estate

company, empty list of friends,etc?

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vamp girl • 10 hrs ago

Facebook a/k/a the place you visit to hook up with the people you did not get a chance to sleep

with in high school.

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DEA • New York, New York • 10 hrs ago

thats funny since fewer than 30% of the people with accounts actually log into FB.

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Amen • 10 hrs ago

Most of you need to get a life. If you dont like Facebook , then good, dont use it. other than that

" Shut the F up".

a Facebook user

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I Dont Even • 10 hrs ago

I could have sworn you only needed a sample of 1000 to be representative of the entire

population..

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I guess Facebook follows different rules of statistics?

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Jake • Cincinnati, Ohio • 10 hrs ago

Once again facebook deciding whats best for its users. I voted by deactivating my account. Say

buh bye!!!

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Joe • 10 hrs ago

I saw 800 ads on facebook. No ads were about this vote.

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Garrick S • 10 hrs ago

Never new there was a vote and I don't know anybody that did.

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Richard C • Houston, Texas • 10 hrs ago

People need to cast their vote like I did by deactivating their account. There is really no value ot

Facebook and is nothing but a waste of time.

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T. Jefferson • 11 hrs ago

Typical Farce-book, I think I'll start a pool to guess how long it will be before Facebook's stock

will be worth the same price as a roll of toilet paper.

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gogo • 11 hrs ago

what was the point of holding the vote anyway?

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Rick • Omaha, Nebraska • 11 hrs ago

Cmon now people...facebook knows its got you by the balls. They dont give a crap what you

guys think at this point. What you gonna do? Delete your facebook? Of course not. This is what

addiction is all about. You know that all facebook is doing is trying to make money pimping you

out via advertisements and information distribution. This isnt a surprise or an outrage its what

corporations do and as we all know facebook is most definately a corporation.

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Cheshire420 • 11 hrs ago

What? What vote?

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Sounds like they hand picked the people to vote on this. You're telling me less than 1,000,000

people voted on this, out of the "800,000,000" they claim to be users?

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Jason • Lansdale, Pennsylvania • 11 hrs ago

Funny - This is the first time I hearing about any vote. I just found out through this article. I

agree FaceBook did NOTHING to advertise this.

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Jeffrey • 11 hrs ago

I got rid of my Facebook account 3 years ago. I was trying to make some comments last week

on Yahoo, and it wanted me to sign in with my Facebook account. When Yahoo gets to the point

that I need a Facebook account to log on, I'll get rid of yahoo too.

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D W • 11 hrs ago

the joking? more scam and corruption and sell privacy from every one included from business

time government stop them for good, facebook the still are in court for it

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Gage • Memphis, Tennessee • 11 hrs ago

facebook sucks. I got rid of my account months ago. I'm so happy I did. Just too much crap. I

really don't care what people are doing exactly/while they are doing it. And everyone talks about

the stupidest s***.

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Bobby • Mentor, Ohio • 11 hrs ago

twitter here i come

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guesswho • 11 hrs ago

Simple solution, DON 'T HAVE A FREAKIN FACEBOOK PAGE, problem solved!

People honest to Gawd need to LOGOFF their computers and engage in their REAL LIFE.

Posting messages IS NOT REAL SOCIAL INTERACTION and is not a substitute for it.

Want to talk to someone, get face to face, pick up your phone!

GOD PEOPLE ARE BEYOND LAZY!

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Tuis • Mt Hamilton, California • 11 hrs ago

Never heard of it. Weird!

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Blaine Fisher • Wapakoneta, Ohio • 11 hrs ago

Why didn't that just make you vote when you log inand not let u get to your homepage till u

voted yes or no, boom entire facebook votes, dur dur

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Travis • Sullivan, Missouri • 11 hrs ago

This is the first time that I have ever heard of this so called "voting" thing with Facebook.They

will change the privacy policy regardless if people do or do not vote on it.We will never be

notified of the changes either.

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Facebook_h8tr • 11 hrs ago

Ha ha ha.. facebook can suck it. I clicked the 'delete my account' button long ago.

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Tom • Portland, Oregon • 11 hrs ago

rofl... in order to be "statistically significant" you only need a fraction of the representative

population to vote.... for crying out loud, clinical trails for FDA approved drugs test groups are

in the hundreds to be statistically significant.... so..... 87% of 350,000 think the idea is bogus, but

FB shrugs it's billion-dollar-shoulders and says "too close to call." O.o ?!?! this is like watching

a Harold Lloyd marathon..... i can't stop laughing....

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OK...for those of you on FB...did you know about the vote..and did you vote.

It's double no for me

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Jacque • Houston, Texas • 12 hrs ago

300,000 people is too small? What a joke. Why have a vote if you were going to do what you

wanted to do anyway?

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gypsy • 12 hrs ago

If Facebook rolled this out to everyone of its active 500million users and only 300k responded, i

wonder if this is telling of Facebook's effectiveness for targeted ads

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Stephen • 12 hrs ago

Ridiculous... what "significant efforts?" 350k is a small enough fraction of FB's total users that

these "voters" may have only accidentally discovered FB's supposed "vote." As the whole point

of social networking is communicating information, there are only two possibilities: FB is a

failure as a social networking tool OR FB had no intention of alerting users to the "vote." I

wouldn't bet on FB's success; it's totally dependent on user input and, thus, alienating users

guarantees its failure.

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BJM • 12 hrs ago

Shareholders on Facebook votes will be invalid also since Mark Zuckerberg owns 57% of the

stock.

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ralph • Kenosha, Wisconsin • 12 hrs ago

Will FB start selling user's passwords as a service to potential employers? They say no, but lets

put it to a vote.

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Meditech • Spokane, Washington • 12 hrs ago

Out of a supposed one billion people only a third vote. At same time they say they encouraged

people to vote. Obviously they are unable to even get results from advertising on their own

website.

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ralph • Kenosha, Wisconsin • 12 hrs ago

Most of US elections would be overturned on that premise !

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..... • 12 hrs ago

They put a 30% requirement to the vote for it to matter, but only told 1% of the users about the

vote...yup...seems about right for Facebook.

And look at their stock...People like using the product, but not enough to dump their money into

the company.

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Deuce • Medford, Oregon • 12 hrs ago

Hate to break the news to all of you, but FB is a company, owned and operated by someone

other than YOU. They do not have to do what YOU think. If you don't like what they do, don't

use their product.

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P.O.W • 12 hrs ago

Momma say's facebooks the devil.

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Luke Cage • New York, New York • 12 hrs ago

Actually, that's a very good turnout for a poll. Think of it this way, the Nielsen rating is based on

the fact that one person with a Nielsen box represents a good 50000 people.

Statistically speaking, there's almost no possible way for FB to turn the tide on an almost 90%

dislike rating. Do they really think that a higher number of participants would eventually give

them a favorable rating on their own poll?

FB is being intellectually dishonest with even having a poll if their own poll numbers. Why even

have it then?

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STEPHEN K • Prior Lake, Minnesota • 12 hrs ago

never saw were I could vote

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Ashley • Fallston, Maryland • 12 hrs ago

This is the first I've heard of this. I don't really think they're concerned about what their users

think though.

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elbarto • 12 hrs ago

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Facebook will soon be going the way of Myspace.

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MikeS • 12 hrs ago

If every "real" person voted, it probably still wouldn't be 30% since 80% of the profiles are

spammers and cats.

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Scott • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • 12 hrs ago

SO, there was a vote? I check FB twice a day... once for personal stuff and once for my business

page. NEVER saw a notification. NOT ONCE. so "Despite our significant efforts to encourage

users to vote, only 342,632 people participated, which amounts to a tiny fraction of our user base

of more than 900 million,” doesn't amount to anything with me... i do not believe there was any

effort! Since 70% of FB users are duplicate/fake/business pages for existing users and their pets

or for fictional characters, the vote represents 10% of the user base. which is probably ALL of

the user who were actually notified. FB is running a scam here

And since the vote was "and overwhleming 87% against the changes" you would think the smart

business man would fit that result to the larger population... is Statistical Analysis 101! This is

NOT how to run a business!

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Vicodin • 13 hrs ago

You can vote.... but we dont care, well do it any way.... When will the face crack just die?

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Pa Pa J • Lewisville, Texas • 13 hrs ago

One day you will say to your kids - "There used to be this thing called Facebook".

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Rick • 13 hrs ago

I think that would be because it was never announced that we could vote.... I was on facebook

all week last week and never given the opportunity....

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Benjamin • Chicago, Illinois • 13 hrs ago

guess i know what to do with any free time i have in the future, set down to the long and

tiresome task of deleting my account...

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Neeny • 13 hrs ago

I'm on fb every day. First I am hearing of this. Why put things to a vote if they are just going to

do what they want to do anyway?

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Evol Chipmunk • 13 hrs ago

342,632 is probably actually closer to half rather than under 30%... FB does not have over 900

million users.... everyone i know has multiple accounts (i, myself, have 8 now, many of my

friends have more.. one friend has 125)... plus, when did the voting take place? i mean, i know

when, it says up there... but im on FB every day (only way to keep in touch with my son) and

this article is first ive heard of it.... and no, i dont access with a phone, so its not my 'droid app'

or watever..

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PlainVanilla • 13 hrs ago

FB is a joke from the ground up. Why people think it is relevant is beyond me. Did you

REALLY expect them to listen to you? If so, I pity you.

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lamar • 13 hrs ago

anybody remember when myspace was a big deal?

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Smirks • 13 hrs ago

Perfect time to invest in Facebook. BHAZINGA!!

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Mr. RD • 13 hrs ago

342,632 ...that is probably the number of people still on FB.

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jvkla • Los Angeles, California • 14 hrs ago

Why bother letting anyone vote if they're going to ignore the results? 87% is a pretty decisive

margin. I hope each of those 297,883 who voted yes will do the smart thing and close their

Facebook accounts. FB is the worst thing ever to happen to the internet, and it is time for it to

fall.

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David • 14 hrs ago

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Just another reason I won't use FacePlant.

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Graywolfman • Englewood, Colorado • 14 hrs ago

I received no notification of a vote. This is just a way for Facebook to say "we tried, not enough

people responded" so they can go ahead with the changes never do the vote again. Sounds like

the U.S. Government at this point...

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Neil • 14 hrs ago

I have no information on my Facebook that I'm concerned about anyone seeing so I could care

less. If you don't like Facebook don't use it. Also, I can't understand why are there always a slew

of people who come on these articles about Facebook bragging about how they don't have a

Facebook? If you care so little about Facebook, why the hell are you reading news articles about

it?

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William S • 14 hrs ago

Facebook is a social disease!

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Kimberly • 14 hrs ago

Just one more reason to validate why I deleted my FB page.

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ROBERT • 14 hrs ago

WHAT VOTE

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Jorge • 14 hrs ago

I'm off FB; though I still like to read up on it and it's users who can't kick the habit.

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Mike • 14 hrs ago

I didn't know anything about this vote until now. My guess is that Fakebook didn't really want

the users to vote, otherwise they would have plastered the vote option all over our pages.

I'm kind of glad Facebook has gone the way it has. Hopefully by the time my son is old enough

to get on a computer things like Twatter and Fakebook will be a thing of the past like Myspace

did..

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Jason B • 14 hrs ago

I didn't hear anything about this "vote" but that being said, be realistic: Facebook doesn't HAVE

to let us "vote" on anything at all. And if you don't like it, vote with your feet and switch back to

Myspace or whatever.

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D Williams • Dallas, Texas • 14 hrs ago

FB . . you have a choice between crap and dung . . .yes we know they both stink!

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steve • 14 hrs ago

left out of the loop on this one

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Bill Golberg • Auburndale, Wisconsin • 14 hrs ago

900 million users? How many of them are "pet" accounts or alternate accounts?

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Phoenix • 14 hrs ago

I'm on FB every day, and knew nothing about this vote.

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Wombat • Los Angeles, California • 14 hrs ago

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which amounts to a tiny fraction of our user base of more than 900 million,” said Elliot Schrage,

Vice President, Communications, Public Policy and Marketing at Facebook."

No that pretty much accurately shows how many people actually care about facebook. The user

base of 900 million is a complete farce! The lawsuits against the IPO will probably win

eventually due to this huge lie.

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Mike • Springfield, Missouri • 14 hrs ago

I'm on facwbook several times a day EVERY day, and this is the first i've heard of any vote

about facebook. they did NOTHING to inform us of this vote.

dont do anything on facebook that you dont want the whole world to see!

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Louis • 14 hrs ago

This is beccause the government wants to be able to control what is going on in social

networking sites. This will be the beginning of your post getting censored and your page

monitored 24/7 welcome to your hell

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you've been hosed again by Suckerberg fakebook users - when will you ever learn

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Otto Pilot • Spring Branch, Texas • 14 hrs ago

It all sounds like such a tremendous waste of time and energy.

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MeJustMe • 14 hrs ago

I have to say that I'm on FB many times throughout the day and NEVER saw one post about any

voting! Nothing about it on any of the tech blogs until this story either!

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CNC Screwman • 14 hrs ago

The reason they got 300 thousand votes is because that's how many actual real users there are!

They all have 5-6 fake accounts as well lol!

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Mike • Port Huron, Michigan • 15 hrs ago

Hey FB.. i just created another account for my Cat... make that 900,000,001 accounts you have

now... ;)

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Mike • Port Huron, Michigan • 15 hrs ago

LOL, democracy at its best... "We had a vote, but didn't like the turn out or the results so we

decided to do what we wanted to do in the first place.." Hey, our county only had 11% of

registered voters turn out for presidential primaries... I guess that means Ron Paul won after all,

right???

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Hollycow • Richardson, Texas • 15 hrs ago

Darn I missed the vote which would have allowed me to select between a bad policy and even

worst policy, my bad luck.

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Chi-Town • 15 hrs ago

Yep. Never saw anything about a vote.Ever.

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florence • 16 hrs ago

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Facebook knows that people don't like their privacy policy . I don't subscribe and those I know

that do use false names and IDs . .

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SO tired of it all • 16 hrs ago

Despite voters’ overwhelming preference for the former policy, Facebook said the number of

users who voted was too small to be representative of the entire Facebook community and said it

would go ahead with the proposed changes."

That's odd-I am on FB every day to try to keep up with my family but I never once heard about

any voting. Could it be that that is the reason the voting population was too small? Yeah, way to

listen FB. Thanks again. :-[

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Jose Garcia • 16 hrs ago

They can say that they will let the users vote again as much as they want. Due to their endless

trickery, I am no longer on facebook. Much safer for me to be out of it

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Dru • 16 hrs ago

FB is a lot like the US government. They give people a vote and then ignore the results. They

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say that not enough people voted, but they didn't tell anyone that there would be a vote. Very

american if you ask me.

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The High Road • 16 hrs ago

That's funny I checked my FB several times last week and didn't see any voting or any word of

this. Gee I wonder why only 300k people voted? LOL.

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Tony M • Plainville, Massachusetts • 16 hrs ago

would have been nice to know about this vote. I usually always have FB up when I'm working

on my computer and never once saw or heard anything about a vote. Looks like they are trying

to pull a fast one on everyone because their IPO is failing big time.

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Let's Speak Truth • 16 hrs ago

Apparantly FB didn't like the results of the vote.

It reminds me of the fabled "hanging Judge"of the old old west who once said "let's get on with

the trial so that we can hang him before lunch".

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