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Social networking giant Facebook has suffered it’s first drop in members since the site was conceived, probably due to the fact that users now have a way to delete their accounts. Since January, Facebook has lost a whopping 5% of all user accounts. Why, exactly, Facebook popularity is going down the tube is a matter of speculation, at the moment. It could be that some inconsiderate Facebook application developers force users to spam their friends before they can make the application do anything. Users could simply have become tired of getting an E-mail every time they’re bitten by a vampire. Perhaps Facebook was just a passing fad, and people have come to accept that it’s time to move on from the social networking site.

Yes, for quite some time, once you had a Facebook account, it wasn’t going anywhere. Now, fortunately for college students and people with no attention span everywhere, Facebook now allows said people to delete their Facebook accounts. This was in direct response to user complaints about not being able to delete their accounts, if desired. Even if users were able to delete their own accounts, there were no obvious directions on how to do that. Another reason that Facebook decided to allow users to delete their accounts was a reason that could have gotten Facebook sued if they did not address it: privacy. The “I didn’t actually make a Facebook” E-mails were really racking up in Facebook’s inbox, and Facebook sometimes made it all too easy for people to research intimate/private/personal details of users’ lives. At this point, deleting your account is just a help-page away. Facebook admins are considering adding a “delete account” button.