Are You Quitting Facebook Today?

New Delhi, May 31 : The D-day is finally here. Notwithstanding the frantic proclamations made last week by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to reassure its users of their data privacy, thousands of disappointed users are set to bid adieu to the site on May 31.

A website called Quit Facebook Day had set the last day of May as the day when everyone keen to leave the social network should finally take the plunge and hit the Delete key.

According to reports, over 25,000 people of the over 450 million Facebook members have already registered as "Committed Facebook Quitters" via the Quit Facebook Today website.

Over the past few weeks, the world's most popular social networking site has been facing severe criticism globally over privacy loopholes.

The popular Internet social hangout has been accused for exposing users' information without their knowledge thanks to a confusing system for setting privacy safeguards.

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old billionaire founder of the site, admitted that it had made mistakes in its privacy policies.

The company promised that it would roll out changes over the coming weeks that would give users more powerful tools to prevent personal information from being accessed by others.

Zuckerberg said that the company would introduce simpler privacy settings as well as a way to block all third-party services.