Facebook Addiction: Confirmed

by Scott Seroka. Posted 3 months ago at 10:58. 1 comment

You may have heard there were a little over 34,000 people who were planning to detonate their Facebook accounts on “Quit Facebook Day,” Monday, May 31.

However, for most people (roughly two-thirds), when it was time to hit the “Delete My Account” button, they just couldn’t, despite all the ranting over recent security and privacy concerns. Plus, when you consider there are approximately 500 million people on Facebook as of the date of this blog, an exodus of 34,000 would barely register on the radar. With Facebook’s rate of growth, that number would probably be recovered before the weekend.

We’re living in interesting times. Ten years ago, the mantra was “None of your business.” Today, 500 million people are willing to risk a compromise in their online security to stay connected with friends. Five hundred million people are willing to give up a little privacy to belong. Five hundred million people are addicted to Facebook.