With the privacy policies of social networking site Facebook having received a backlash from not only the privacy advocates and users but also from some employees, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg might consider downsizing the efforts pertaining to encouraging the users to share more information about themselves in public

The contentious changes that Facebook has made to its privacy policy essentially limit the extent of personal data that the users can keep private. As such, while privacy advocates have sought the intervention of the regulators on the privacy issue, some of the peeved users have created websites to underline the supposed failings of Facebook’s privacy controls.

According to ‘inside’ sources, Facebook employees are reportedly worked up due to the privacy backlash, thereby putting pressure on Zuckerberg, who has been long suggesting that users should be more open with their personal information.

Sources have revealed that while the Facebook employees have been arguing that the site should make more information private ‘by default’, Zuckerberg has been merely offering new tools that can enable users to control their information.

Boasting over 400 million users, Facebook is virtually grappling with ways in which it can develop new services off all the data provided by users without offending them. Apparently, the key focus of the company is to work out ways to convert the vast amount of data into a multi-billion dollar ad-business.