According to reports, the fact that Facebook’s recent attempts to pacify users and privacy rights advocates with new privacy settings have been less than satisfactory is evident from the deletion of 34,687 accounts by users, in response to the May 31 “Quit FaceBook Day” call.

Despite the fact that the social networking giant recently unveiled redesigned privacy settings page, in an attempt to gives users more control over the manner in which they share personal information, the organizers of the “Quit Facebook Day” movement are stressing the site’s apparent “lack of respect” for users’ data.

The “Quit Facebook” movement clearly has reasons enough for gathering further momentum – more so as Facebook is yet to give its over 400 million active users the right to opt out of any and all public data sharing.

The critics of Facebook’s perplexing and contentious privacy policies are of the opinion that the fascist-like rules of the social networking site take the privacy power away from users, only to place it in the hands of a dictator – the FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg – who seems to be bent upon using the users’ information in whatever ways he deems fit.

Noting that it’s about time Facebook puts privacy power back in the hands of users, the organizers of “Quit FaceBook Day” are also pointing out alternatives to FaceBook – including a specialized social site like Akoha or a Ning group.