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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.
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.
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I pay for Facebook (ads, as well as boosting posts). That makes me a customer, I guess.
> I pay for Facebook. That makes me a customer. How does one pay for Facebook? Is there a premium service I'm not aware of?
Same way Google do with adword on their search page.
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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.
So the automated system did more harm than good. It should either be overhauled or disabled.
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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.
I have an email from when I _deleted_ mine (September 2010): 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…
I have the feeling that checking if the account still exists by trying to logon is: 1. not a good check 2. maybe conra-productive because they now maybe assume you are interested in getting back your account.
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I pay for Facebook (ads, as well as boosting posts). That makes me a customer, I guess.
> I pay for Facebook. That makes me a customer. How does one pay for Facebook? Is there a premium service I'm not aware of?
I run ads on Facebook for several Facebook pages and additionally promote their posts (using the per-post boosting) fairly regularly.
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They did mention it was 5 years ago; password managers have become a lot more popular in that time.
You don't need to manage a password of an abandoned account. Just make it long and random.
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You should be able to actually delete an account, not just "deactivate" it.
You can delete accounts, but the function is hidden and you have to search the help section to find it https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
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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.
They assume their automated system can catch evil users in the act. It couldn't. It failed it's job and let the attacker do what they wanted while preventing the legitimate user from controlling their account. So the automated system did more harm than good. It should either be overhauled or disabled.
Where do they assume that?