He's probably backtracking as people were leaving and going to other social networking sites.

Actually very few people left to go to 'other' social networks
social networking does not work that way, although many people use more than one to begin with

Social networks only work when a critical mass is reached, facebook was clever when they started and kept it MIT only, then spread it out to other .edu domains, keeping the required critical mass low

friends wont jump ship to other social networks if their friends are not there to begin with


They are just working out ways to re word the ToS, basically nothing changed from a user perspective, people who have no clue what they are talking about just got all noisy about it because a mate of a mate who works down at Homebase thought he overheard that it was a bad thing

Lets see how long it takes their laywers to re word

I know of quite a few people who left and took their friends with them and they joined other sites like myspace. I also know people who complained too.

"We can't delete the surrogate user ID without loosing all associated data. " Another example of poor database design.