Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. Instead of reopening account on a whim require id when account is being reopened.
Frustrate returning customers ... not a great idea
You're not the customer, you're the product.
Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
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Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#72This is concerning since I had assumed the data contained in 'inactive' accounts would eventually be deleted. I closed my own account in 2011 because I found no benefit to having one. Given how difficult it was to close my account the first time around, I'm now expecting to receive a similar email. Why would they hold onto all this data for years after the account was closed? They're not going to be able to glean any…
You certainly fooled yourself in assuming that, it is, at least I thought it was, common knowledge that facebook does not delete a single thing ever they just disable it for user access.
I seems to remember this was exposed a few years back with the introduction of a "past memories" features or something that mistakenly took some of the supposedly deleted content and put it in the spotlight.
They hold onto this data because: 1. You gave them full legal rights to do so by agreeing to their ToS and giving them full ownership of everything ever collected on you by facebook. 2. Exploiting user data is how the make money. (well that and investor story time).
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#73This is concerning since I had assumed the data contained in 'inactive' accounts would eventually be deleted. I closed my own account in 2011 because I found no benefit to having one. Given how difficult it was to close my account the first time around, I'm now expecting to receive a similar email. Why would they hold onto all this data for years after the account was closed? They're not going to be able to glean any…
A few egregious interracial mano-a-mano "mature" midget porn pics sprinkled with a collage of pre-teen bikini pics (A 12 line python script). And a pre-cooked rant from some Nazi site about negros and bitches and negro bitches was all it took to get me out. Some concern from family and friends but a "Yea, got hacked, be careful out there" took care of that. Make the system work for you mate.
Chances are every data about you facebook ever collected still lives inside facebook, outside access is just disabled.
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#74What would the alternative be? Allow anyone to request that an account is deleted? Facebook needs some form of verification due to the password being breached (and its great that they are checking for that sort of thing)
The alternative would be to actually delete the account as it should have happened in the first place when the user requested it years ago.
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#75Seriously, after 5 years they still have your account information? Are they completely nuts?
On Facebook, there's a difference between "deleting" and "deactivating" your account. OP did the latter, in which case it stays in the DB but is made invisible to everyone else. All you have to do to make it a normal, visible account again is simply log in. Deleting is a different matter.
There was no deleting option years go, it only came to exists recently and there is no proof that any deleting is actually happening only that outside access is disabled.
I remember an insider interview a while ago explaining that at any time facebook hold several, seven if my memory is correct, copies of every data ever collected on all users and non users. Surveillance capitalism.
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So supposedly OP was allowed to reactivate the account without any hassle at all, but then to actually sign in ID has to be shown? That is even more ridiculous Try to think about it without all that negative mindset. Someone quite obviously obtained the (careless) author's password from a leaked user database of another site. They used it to log on to FB and reactivate the account. That isn't suspicious, because th…
So their automated systems detected malicious access as legitimate access, and legitimate access as malicious access? And this is somehow working as intended?
I'm not sure what you are suggesting facebook should do.
They can't very well just assume all attackers will set the evil-bit now can they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
The automated system has done "the right thing" and fallen back to manual verification when it detected suspicious activity. They can't request id for every activation or reactivation.
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#77This is why every site should have it's own unique, strong password.
That works great until you have to actually remember it.
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#78Ha, Facebook UI without logging in is the stupidest. Help center behind a login, emails that can't be unsubscribed from from the email without login, stupid popup that blocks the view every now and then if you're logged out... I'm tempted to try logging in if they really deleted my account after I requested it.
Breaking news: they delete nothing, at best outside access is disabled.
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#79This is concerning since I had assumed the data contained in 'inactive' accounts would eventually be deleted. I closed my own account in 2011 because I found no benefit to having one. Given how difficult it was to close my account the first time around, I'm now expecting to receive a similar email. Why would they hold onto all this data for years after the account was closed? They're not going to be able to glean any…
Deactivate is different from delete. They knowingly only show deactivate which keeps the data, the link for delete is not immediately accessible from their site. https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#80Deactivate is different from delete. They knowingly only show deactivate which keeps the data, the link for delete is not immediately accessible from their site. https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account