Jules Webb said
11 months, 2 weeks ago: @moinshaikh @richardmclaughlin @amyhallbiz @andrea-vahl
The results are in!
http://mashable.com/2012/06/08/facebook-election-is-a-bust-0-00038-of-users-voted-on-privacy-change/
Out of 900 million users, a mere 342,632 voted on which privacy policy would govern the site.
That’s roughly 1 in every 2,600 users — or 0.038% of Facebook.
Facebook said that if the poll didn’t receive at least 30% of users’ votes, the company would make the decision of which privacy policy to use on its own.
That means 230 million people would have had to vote during the eight-day window the poll was open.
342,632 sure seems like a big number, but 0.038% isn’t much of an impression.
What do you make of it?
- Do you think people just don’t care
- The difference between the old and the new was negligible
- Facebook didn’t market the vote very well and most people were unaware of it.
- Other