Thursday, social networking website Facebook announced it was going to try a democratic approach where its policies were concerned, saying that users would come to play an important role in deciding them and also in voting on the changes to be brought.

The measure comes as Facebook is trying to make amends for a mistake it made last week when it changed its policy, which resulted in users having protested online against the site’s decisions. At that time, the main issue that gave rise to debates among users and raised many concerns was what was to happen with the information one had posted on the website and shared with their friends after their account had been removed.

The concerns stand to reason, since Facebook has become a place where people talk about almost everything, including very intimate details about relationships and other aspects of their personal life.

This Thursday, founder Mark Zuckerberg came forth to reassure people yet again that the information they chose to post on the website belonged to them and not to Facebook, adding that users would get a say in determining the website’s policies, such as privacy, ownership and sharing, by reviewing, commenting and voting on them before the company should enforce them.

Moreover, the company stated that in case over 7,000 users were to comment on a policy, the latter would go to a vote, whereas if more than 30 percent of active users voted, the vote would be binding to Facebook.

Currently, Facebook has over 175 million worldwide users, which means that 53 million of them would need to cast a vote concerning a policy in order for it to be reconsidered by the company.