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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