Poll: Anyone Quitting Facebook Today?
May 31st, 2010 admin
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It’s May 31st and today is the so-called Quit Facebook Day . Currently there are almost 27 thousand committed quitters. That’s not very many people considering that Facebook is approaching 500 million accounts. But forget about Facebook, we’d like to ask you something else. Do you have a Gmail account? If you have a Google account, have you “paused” your Web History? If you need to check, go to: https://www.google.com/history/ On 31/05/10 At 01:37 PM
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