In a follow up to last week's post: Facebook retracted its policy changes pretty quickly. This article, from a blog linked to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, discusses the revocation of February 4's rulebook rewrite. Facebook is now using its old version of the user agreement, with no reference to the website owning users' personal information. The company is now working on making a new, "clearer" verson of the rules.

I find this speedy change telling of Facebook's relationship with its users. One advocacy group threatened to file a federal complaint, but really, would the federal government have forced changes upon a private company? It seems that the very fuel that makes the social networking site run, its relationship with the public, suffered because of the policy changes, and that the reversal was a simple result of the people speaking.