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Frustrate returning customers ... not a great idea
You should be able to actually delete an account, not just "deactivate" it.
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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.
I deactivated my account in 2010. At that point in time the only option was deactivating the account. Not sure what I should do now.
Subject: Account scheduled for deletion
"Hi Mathew, We have received a request to permanently delete your account. Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days. If you did not request to permanently delete your account, please login to Facebook to cancel this request: http://www.facebook.com/login.php Thanks,The Facebook Team"
I know there was a difference between deactivate and delete, deactivate tried to guilt trip you ( like this http://mashable.com/2009/07/22/facebook-deactivate-account/#... ) whereas delete had some hoops on the form to jump through.
I've just checked by attempting to log in - "The email address you entered does not match any account"
Ha, 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.
But nevertheless, they advertise that they actually remove the content, when you delete the account (saying it can take a few months before they prune all the backups from it), so it would be fraud if they did not. Also EU, there's a right to delete.
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No I think you've missed the point, the _account_ is unimportant: "I do not want an account on Facebook. I have been happy to live without Facebook for the last 5 years." What is _important_ is the fact that it was activated without any user input, and can't be deactivated without handing over quite substantial trust.
GP has not missed the point. The deactivated account should have been secured with a decent password (if the "lack-of-an-account" was important). It wasn't reactivated without any user input - or at least we can't possibly know that. We just don't know who the user was who did the reactivating.
The actual password issue here is password reuse and what should have been done is not having a facebook account in the first place. Is it even possible to get out of facebook once your data is in there ?
The user being the account owner, we do know (provided we trust him) that it was not him so yes it was reactivated without any user input.
From what I gather it could be that email/password was used on another service that got breached and either a bot or someone trying all those breached credentials on facebook caused the reactivation, or a relative that knew the user/pass or facebook trying to collect more personal data on old inactive accounts and inadvertently getting exposed once again.
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No I think you've missed the point, the _account_ is unimportant: "I do not want an account on Facebook. I have been happy to live without Facebook for the last 5 years." What is _important_ is the fact that it was activated without any user input, and can't be deactivated without handing over quite substantial trust.
GP has not missed the point. The deactivated account should have been secured with a decent password (if the "lack-of-an-account" was important). It wasn't reactivated without any user input - or at least we can't possibly know that. We just don't know who the user was who did the reactivating.
For those who still have access and don't just want to deactivate- https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
About facebook account deletion:
Publicly visible text/images often aren't properly deleted
even when you succeed in deleting an account. Try editing
or deleting them manually before deleting the account
itself. If you're unsure what happens to your tracks: this
can be found mostly in the Terms of Service/Privacy
Policy; otherwise you can always contact Facebook and ask
personally. By the way, deletion requests don't
necessarily mean your data will actually be deleted (e.g.
due to legal obligations).
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You're not the customer, you're the product.
I pay for Facebook (ads, as well as boosting posts). That makes me a customer, I guess.
How does one pay for Facebook? Is there a premium service I'm not aware of?