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The turnout was far under the 30 percent of users Facebook hoped for, but the social networking site said the week-long vote, in which users determined which documents should serve as the foundation for governing the site, was a success.
Social networking behemoth Facebook announced terms of service changes as the result of a vote the company held to determine whether users supported the adoption of new governing documents. The vote came after users protested previous changes to service, when Facebook seemed to claim users' data as their own.
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Facebook To Adopt New Governing Documents
Apr 17th, 2009 - PC World
Facebook intends to adopt two new governing documents following a four-day vote on the documents that was open to all Facebook users. Preliminary results indicate that approximately 74.4 percent of Facebook users who voted support the new documents...
Facebook Moves Ahead With New Terms of Use
Apr 17th, 2009 - PC World
Facebook, the world's most used social-networking site, will soon move ahead with revised rules for how it operates following a row with users earlier this year. The company's new guiding documents...
Facebook to Adopt New Terms of Service
Apr 17th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
Facebook Inc. said it would move to implement two new governing documents after preliminary results showed that 74.4% of Facebook users who participated in a vote on the new documents supported them.
Facebook governance vote is a homework assignment no one did
Apr 17th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
By the time voting closed today at noon Pacific time, only 0.32% of Facebook's users had weighed in on the question of whether the site's lengthy new policy documents were better than the lengthy old ones.
Facebook Opens the Polls for Privacy Policy Vote
Apr 17th, 2009 - PC World
Facebook promised to put the future of its privacy policies in your hands -- and now, it's staying true to its word. The social networking site has officially opened the polls for a user vote on its terms of service...




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