Facebook asks users to vote

Facebook asks you to handle your own safety.

By Rishab Sharma

December 7, 2012, 2:00 a.m.

Facebook ask users to caste votes

You would have survived the presidential elections ,but this time  as citizens of Facebook, you are being asked to cast another ballot.

Facebook users have been getting emails asking them to vote on "global site governance." It sounds complicated but it really just means that Facebook is proposing changes to how it handles your personal information.

Why Facebook is asking you to vote

Facebook opened the polls on Monday for its 1 billion plus users to vote on proposed changes to its policies.  Facebook rolled out the voting system in 2009 to give users a voice in how it handles their personal information to quiet a noisy grass-roots protest over changes it had made to its terms of service. But Facebook says the voting system has not worked as intended and isn’t appropriate now that it’s a publicly traded company subject to oversight by regulators around the world. Facebook is proposing to keep users informed on policy changes with webcasts on privacy rather than giving users the right to vote on policy changes.As of noon Wednesday, about 300,000 people had voted. The vast majority are not in favor of Facebook’s proposals.

Where's the polling booth?

Go to this page. There, you are presented with two sets of  policy documents, one that governs how Facebook currently handles your information and one that explains how it would like to handle your information in the future. The document is called the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. The acronym is SRR. Facebook also wants to make changes to its Data Use Policy.

So you have to choose between Proposed documents and existing documents.

How to vote, step by step

• Go to the "about the vote" page.

• Click the green “vote” button.

• This directs you on a page with links to Facebook’s proposals and to the existing documents.

It then asks you “Which documents should govern the Facebook site?”

Click next to your choice, either:

--Proposed documents: It would approve Facebook’s proposed changes.

Or

--Existing documents: It keeps the current policy and rejects Facebook’s proposed changes.

Then click the green “submit vote” button.You can only view the results after you caste your vote.Voting  ends Dec. 10 . You can vote early, but you can’t vote often. Only one vote per account. But you can spread the word that you voted by clicking the “share with my friends” box below the green “submit vote” button.
What's your opinion. Either proposed changes or existing policies?Comment !
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