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International Quit Facebook Day came and went, without making a dent into the user-base of the fantastically successful social networking site.

The brainchild of two Toronto-based developers, Joseph Dee and Matthew Milan, the idea behind Quit Facebook Day was to send a message about privacy and control to the often controversial Facebook, following it’s recent privacy hoo-haa.

However, it seems the lure of playing Scrabble with their mum, or running a fake farm, was too much for most users.

Meanwhile, the more intellectual Twitter has yet to get a real backlash, or turn a significant profit. Perhaps when it does, we’ll see a Quit Twitter day too?

by Pete Hindle

Pete is a guest contributor of New Media Monthly. He’s a North East based researcher/artist/thinker/designer/programmer. Read more about Pete in his blog.