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Report: Facebook Hardly Affected By 'Backlash'

  • Fortune, Monday, May 17, 2010 3:03 PM

Industry-wide privacy concerns and calls for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's head are having virtually no impact on the social net's sharp growth trajectory, according to Fortune. On the contrary, Facebook has had a net gain of 10 million active users since it announced a series of new features at its f8 conference in late April. "A few high profile tech bloggers may have quit the site, but not many other people have," Fortune reports.

"The number of deactivations, according to a Facebook spokesperson, is about the same as it's been all along." What's more, web publishers are fast adopting the "like" button and other social plug-ins. Indeed, having launched with 75 partners, Facebook now counts more than 100,000 of them. Still, Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan suggested last week that Facebook's growth was indeed slowing, while "a significant number of people are canceling their Facebook accounts because of privacy concerns."

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