People are continuing to leave Facebook, as campaigns to “delete Facebook” gain momentum and global scrutiny expands in the wake of the social media and social networking company’s tumultuous year marred by privacy-related scandals.
The latest negative publicity came from a Dec. 18 report that revealed that Facebook had shared more personal user data with 150 other technology companies, such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix, than it had previously disclosed, in a bid to exempt its business partners from normal privacy regulations.