Has Democracy Come To Facebook?

February 26th, 2009

In a complete about face, it seems Facebook has decided to let the people run the show. Well, they want them to think so anyway.

Facebook is trying its hand at democracy.

The fast-growing online hangout, whose more than 175 million worldwide users could form the world’s sixth-largest country behind Brazil, said Thursday that those users will play a “meaningful role” in deciding the site’s policies and voting on changes.

Facebook is trying to recover from last week’s policy-change blunder, which prompted tens of thousands to join online protests. At issue was who controls the information, like photos, posts and messages, that people share with their friends on the site.

Now if they could just come over and help me with a LCD mount, then I would be completely sold on this power to the people type Facebook.

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