Voting on Facebook's latest policy changes has ended, with voters overwhelmingly asking it to keep the old version of its governing documents, but participation may not have been high enough to make a difference. According to Facebook's governance page, around 670,000 users voted, with roughly 88 percent rejecting the new changes. Unfortunately for them, that total number is far short of the 30 percent of the site's billion active users, so the vote will be advisory rather than binding, meaning Facebook is free to make changes as it sees fit. On a broad scale, these numbers are very similar to what we saw last time — when a relatively tiny number of voters came out overwhelmingly against changes — although turnout was doubled this...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/10/3751842/facebook-policy-voting-results-2012
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