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Deleting Facebook

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Re: Deleting Facebook

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Post by nazgulsenpai »

I deleted my Facebook account last month and I haven't missed it at all. Sure, I get the occasional "is everything okay" text message for leaving, but so far, everyone has completely understood, with the majority saying something similar to "I should get rid of mine too" usually followed by some reason why they won't (old friends, relatives, all of their photos etc).

It's not that hard. You can download your entire profile. It even takes 30 days for the deletion to actually occur. If you think you should delete your Facebook account, just do it. If you change your mind after a few days you can stop the deletion process until you're ready.

Re: Deleting Facebook

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

Those who are planning to delete all Facebook activity(posts) instead of deleting FB account itself, please note that FB seems to be hiding posts at random in the activity log when it detects unusual deleting spree and pops it up on a later date at a random interval.

I still find some 10 year old cringe post being the only post in my timeline occasionally, something which should have been deleted several years ago when I deleted all activity from my FB account. This has happened about 3-4 times now, it's no fun when the only post on your timeline is a 'liked' photo of a girl from your school whom you don't even remember now.

This dark pattern has been corroborated by others using an automated script[1], not that I'm agreeing to using any such script.

[1]https://github.com/weskerfoot/DeleteFB/issues/88

Re: Deleting Facebook

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Post by monkin »

I deleted my main Facebook account in 2012.

Two years ago I need to test out some business features and API’s, so I made a new one. They needed my phone number, my gov ID, and my full name. I did everything but shortened my last name so it was “John S.” as I didn’t want it to be searchable. After a day they banned my account, they are dropping my requests to verify or delete it because name on ID isn’t the same as on Facebook account. My phone number is still attached to account. I even contacted a head of Facebook in my country to which she replied “sue us or be gone”.

Now, when I try to open a new one it’s deactivated second after confirming gov ID. So I’m banned for life. It’s sad what they have become, but I’m happy with the result. They could just stop profiling me on the internet thought. :-)

Re: Deleting Facebook

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Post by room505 »

I remember watching a PBS Frontline episode about Facebook and they mentioned how they're able to create a profile of anyone basically because they purchase profiles from credit card companies and credit agencies. So even if you delete it, they still have your profile and match it with these other companies and are able to sell the data like nothing happened.

Re: Deleting Facebook

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Post by fsflover »

scroot wrote: post #7

If someone can post a script or something that lets you extract all of your friends' birthdays into a Google calendar, it would go a long way towards making deletion more palatable

AFAIK Facebook sends reminders to your email, so you can collect the birthdays from there.

Re: Deleting Facebook

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Post by SunlightEdge »

Disabling/deactivating your FB account is a good way. Your automatically off FB but can come back if you want.

Been off for about 3 years and its great. Log in once a year or so.

Seriously what is the point of Facebook? Chasing likes? Getting into angry political discourse. Watching cat videos? no thanks.

You can use what's app or meet up for groups /family stuff. FB is so pointless.

Re: Deleting Facebook

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Post by SunlightEdge »

SunlightEdge wrote: post #19

Disabling/deactivating your FB account is a good way. Your automatically off FB but can come back if you want. Been off for about 3 years and its great. Log in once a year or so. Seriously what is the point of Facebook? Chasing likes? Getting into angry political discourse. Watching cat videos? no thanks. You can use what's app or meet up for groups /family stuff. FB is so pointless.

You can also use messenger and have your account still be disabled. I do that.
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