Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit

This is silly, they have no idea how many people actually quit. Not that I think many people quit anyways.

I'm sure some of the people that get involved with a pledge like this will rejoin when the realise they made no impact. After all if you have no thought for making an impact why would not just quit quietly?

As I've said before: "Quit Facebook Day" is bound to be useless. What we need is "Join Alternative X Day". Where X is something you can recommend with a straight face.

It's as if they had declared "Quit Internet Explorer Day" before Firefox was even released.

fb says it has > 400 million users. thats about 27k who quit in a day. now if we knew what the baseline quit rate is, the #s might mean something..

This is sort of emblematic of the Facebook Faux Activist generation. While they are so prepared to step up and say something about their convictions, wrapped up and emotionally spirited after been told, all throughout their school lives about how their parents were activists (for things that actually mattered, but that's a different story), my generation lacks what matters when it comes to being an activist:

The ability to realize actions speak louder than words. As long as it doesn't involve going outside, standing in a line or otherwise stepping away from your precious Macbooks for a few hours a day to actually form a peaceful, but resolute protest about a matter, it's very unlikely that this generation will actually accomplish things like this. And even then, something like deactivating your Facebook account turned out to be a flop.

What's more shocking is that they were more than willing to take part in a day in which thousands of people stood up, and willfully desecrated the holy figure of another religion, whether or not they actually understood the overtones of what they were doing, or understanding the undertones of the moderate followers of the Muslim community who reached out to media outlets to explain why the Muhammad drawings disturbed them (Muhammad did not want to be worshiped as an Idol, and they felt that depicting him in the form of an image would detract from the central message he was trying to convey).

Surprising, yet expected all at the same time.