About 30,000 people quit Facebook to show protest of its privacy policy.

This group believes that there should be fair choices and best intentions and Facebook has never met these two things.

The organizers of the protest who refused to identify themselves declared Monday as “Quit Facebook Day”.

According to them,  “Facebook gives you choices about how to manage your data, but they aren’t fair choices.”

The group said at 2300 GMT that 32,749 had dropped out of the Facebook universe.

Facebook.com is visited monthly by 540 million people, or slightly more than 35 percent of the Internet population, as shown by Google data.

Facebook has started overhauling its privacy controls in response to the criticisms that it is betraying the trust which has made it the world’s biggest social network.

Facebook redesigned its privacy settings page to provide a single control for content and “significantly reduce” the amount of information that is always visible to everyone.

Facebook also said it is giving users more control over how outside applications or websites access information at the service.

Critics continue to call for Facebook to make all user information private by default and then let people designate what they want to share case-by-case in an “opt-in” model.