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I wrote this several years ago - it is still true: https://sheep.horse/2013/10/the_seven_realities_of_social_ne... You do not have a Facebook page. You never did. Facebook has a page on you.
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I deactivated first for about 6 months, didn't get any communication from them. Eventually I went to delete and used a link from deletefacebook.com taking me straight to the right page. Maybe it was because I was on mobile but there wasn't any emotional blackmail begging me to stay and it was done. I was expecting much worse but the experience was quite smooth for me and I'm happily free of Facebook for good now.
Enjoy real life!! In the months I had no Facebook, life was amazing and I was more productive, though a bit lonely mainly because I live in a foreign country adn my family is thousands of miles away.
I've tried (and failed) to delete my Facebook a couple times in the past, so this most recent go, when I quit using Facebook, I just quit using Facebook -- I uninstalled the apps from my phone, and mapped 'facebook.com' to localhost in my /etc/hosts files. The result was... amusing. Facebook kept emailing me the "Hey, did you see what so and so posted?" emails, knowing full well that I didn't see them. But then, afte…
This is such a weird thing to think. You can turn off all notifications and they'll never contact you, ever. I stopped using Facebook 6 years ago and haven't gotten a single email / sms from them since then, because I used the settings properly. Yeah, if you just ghost them and never click "update your email settings" at the bottom of every email they send, they'll keep sending them.
It's weird to expect that deleting your account will result in the account being deleted and notifications for the account you no longer have to go away?
It's nice to know there's a workaround for when account deletion isn't respected, but you could skip the incredulity, you shouldn't have to go through your settings, and your settings shouldn't affect your notifications, if you delete your account.
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This is such a weird thing to think. You can turn off all notifications and they'll never contact you, ever. I stopped using Facebook 6 years ago and haven't gotten a single email / sms from them since then, because I used the settings properly. Yeah, if you just ghost them and never click "update your email settings" at the bottom of every email they send, they'll keep sending them.
If you think that is weird, consider what I have done. I manually went through 1100+ friends on facebook and unfollowed them all because facebook won't show me everything in the activity feed but rather tries to guess what I like best. My activity feed is now perfect because it is pretty much just me.
I wrote this several years ago - it is still true: https://sheep.horse/2013/10/the_seven_realities_of_social_ne... You do not have a Facebook page. You never did. Facebook has a page on you.
I've tried (and failed) to delete my Facebook a couple times in the past, so this most recent go, when I quit using Facebook, I just quit using Facebook -- I uninstalled the apps from my phone, and mapped 'facebook.com' to localhost in my /etc/hosts files. The result was... amusing. Facebook kept emailing me the "Hey, did you see what so and so posted?" emails, knowing full well that I didn't see them. But then, afte…
It is fairly easy to configure Facebook notifications the way you want them to be (for example, I want to know when someone logs into my account, but nothing else). I post on my timeline less than once a month, and receive no notifications. Not to defend Facebook, but notifications are hardly its biggest annoyance.
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This is such a weird thing to think. You can turn off all notifications and they'll never contact you, ever. I stopped using Facebook 6 years ago and haven't gotten a single email / sms from them since then, because I used the settings properly. Yeah, if you just ghost them and never click "update your email settings" at the bottom of every email they send, they'll keep sending them.
> This is such a weird thing to think It's weird to expect that deleting your account will result in the account being deleted and notifications for the account you no longer have to go away? It's nice to know there's a workaround for when account deletion isn't respected, but you could skip the incredulity, you shouldn't have to go through your settings, and your settings shouldn't affect your notifications, if you…
But the person above just stopped using their account, didn't delete it (or disable it, which is what facebook sends you on the path towards), so that is why the notifications continued. They still had an active account, just hadn't logged in for some time.
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How is "European customer" defined? If someone is not European but resides in Europe, do they have this right? If someone not from Europe travels to Europe and issues the request while inside Europe, do they have this right? (If so, would using a VPN work?)
If that's actually the case, I can see a Deletion-as-a-service business. "We thoroughly delete your account for you." The fact that I have to come up such mechanisms is a damning indictment of the way things are.
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The US needs to grow some backbone and pass equivalent privacy (and antitrust, while they're at it) laws. If something is a certain way in both the US and EU, most tech companies won't bother doing any differently worldwide.
It isn't a matter of backbone. Legislators are simply representing the interests of their customers, such as Experian and Facebook.