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What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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> Facebook can be a backup for your photos. Nonsense. Try getting the originals out of Facebook.

Easy enough if you're in the EU, where we have laws about this sort of thing.

That seems strange. Is there a law mandating that all image hosts allow recovering the exact original image?

That seems... impractical for a lot of use cases.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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> Facebook is NOT a backup. If you only keep stuff in your Facebook account That's not what a back up is. Facebook can be a backup for your photos.

It can't be. Try to upload some hi-res photo and then download it from FB. Now check the resolution of that downloaded photo.

Try as I might, I have had a very difficult time explaining to people that trying to print a photo you uploaded to Facebook or sent via text is not going to turn out well.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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I learn to quit facebook very early days. I don't like the privacy violations or that big brother spying you feeling. Also account deletions are happening to everyone who talk against facebook. Crooked as google. Both really disappointing services all the way. People, please use alternatives

Alternatives to Facebook that's not made by Google?

GNU social AND/OR mastodon...They're compatible with each other (though not 100%, the basics work across each other), because they use the same underlying protocol!

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Facebook has never been the only game in town. It has just been and continues to be the best game in town.

And the best by being the largest...

"People use it" is a pretty important feature for a social network though.

Whatever replaces Facebook will have to be "cool" enough to get people to actually want to use it. "Facebook but with better privacy" just isn't cool, so the average person isn't going to bother.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Easy enough if you're in the EU, where we have laws about this sort of thing.

That seems strange. Is there a law mandating that all image hosts allow recovering the exact original image? That seems... impractical for a lot of use cases.

No, any organization that stores personal data has to allow you to recover that data though.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Every person I've known to have their FB account deleted also happened to be people who posted inflammatory, toxic content on a daily basis. most of them also acted that way in PMs with people, but on an even more terrible level. Harassment level conversations, and probably a much larger scope than I was directly aware of.

I am not at all convinced that Facebook just deletes accounts for no reason. Sure, high-profile people get maliciously flagged sometimes, but I seriously doubt these randoms who get deleted are telling the entire story.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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We've always felt strongly about Facebook's views on real names: they're intrusive and unfair.

So we made Lyra, a better conversation service which lets you have whatever name you like (among other things). https://hellolyra.com/c/343

We're a nonprofit and don't take investment, so excuse the plug :)

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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I know the article is old, but the author showed a severe lack of common sense. Facebook is NOT a backup. If you only keep stuff in your Facebook account, then it is as 'at risk' as if you only kept on the hard-drive of your ageing laptop that you bought on discount in Walmart/ASDA ten years ago. This oft quoted adage also applies: 'If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product'. The author seemed t…

We're on it :)

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Every person I've known to have their FB account deleted also happened to be people who posted inflammatory, toxic content on a daily basis. most of them also acted that way in PMs with people, but on an even more terrible level. Harassment level conversations, and probably a much larger scope than I was directly aware of. I am not at all convinced that Facebook just deletes accounts for no reason. Sure, high-profile…

Facebook is such a mega-center of cultural life, that for it to have a black-box method of permanently banning people is dangerous, however you may feel about the "attitudes" of the people who're ostracized.

Maybe I am inflating their role.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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> Facebook is NOT a backup. If you only keep stuff in your Facebook account That's not what a back up is. Facebook can be a backup for your photos.

> Facebook can be a backup for your photos. Nonsense. Try getting the originals out of Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/settings > Download a copy of your Facebook data.
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