Quitbook

Today is "Quit Facebook Day", created by people fed up with the social networking site's closed nature and privacy issues. Didn't get the message? Guess they should have kept their accounts a few days longer...

Currently there's around 30,000 "committed" quitters, which means it's not going to be a big deal in the scheme of Facebook things, other than similar small blurbs on blogs like this. Will Friendster and MySpace (you still have accounts there that have withered)? Time proves folks will find the next big thing, but even the founders of the Quit Facebook Day movement admit that no other social networking site is quite as useful as Facebook.

But for those who stay, let's hope their Facebook profile has less then 5,000 friends. It's a serious problem when the New York Times asks, "Are 5,001 Friends Too Many"? Or is it? If you're so popular that you've got thousands of "friends", you either need a fan page, or you've got the loosest interpretation of the definition of what a friend is. And you should quit Facebook.