Barely a day after having stood by its revised terms of service, social networking site Facebook Inc has given in to the mounting pressure from users and privacy advocates - announcing its decision to pull back the contentious changes.

In its Wednesday website notice to 175 million users, Facebook said that it would regress to its earlier policy, as it was being alleged of having used legal language in a way that marked excessive scope with regard to all the data supplied by the users.

The new policy, framed February 4, had Facebook deleting a provision related to the expiry of its license once the users removed their content; therein adding that it could keep and modify the material uploaded by the users even after the termination of an account.

The brouhaha over the implicit changes arose Sunday, when the changes were interpreted by the blog Consumerist to imply that "anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later!"

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company was withdrawing the changes to resolve the issues raised by people. He added that Facebook intends working on a "substantial revision" of the terms, and the users will have a say in framing them by the way of a group on its Web site, "Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities."