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I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity
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Re: I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Deleting your Facebook is difficult? I believe mine is hard deleted (not deactivated), and it was the same workflow as deactivating it, if I remember correctly. I just clicked "delete" instead of "deactivate" or whatever. Facebook leaves the account deactivated for a week so you can ponder on your choice, but if you don't do anything, it was my understanding that the account gets deleted.
I don't think that option has existed for a long time.
Of course it does, https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
Re: I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity
#43imho deleting social profile is not an option anymore. Other guy could make it look like yours. It just too suspicious to not have online profile. Double identity is the key. Just be one kind citizen for the system. Generate likes and upload kittens.
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#44I "deactivated" my Facebook account long ago. I'd like to delete it, but that apparently involves sacrificing some small animal and studying the entrails for clues. I deleted by Google+ account(s) recently, as well. I have several Twitter accounts with no tweets. I'm thinking of sanitizing my LinkedIn account soon. It's not that I'm anti-social (well, maybe); I am just one of those elder geeks who once dreamt of trul…
Deleting your Facebook is difficult? I believe mine is hard deleted (not deactivated), and it was the same workflow as deactivating it, if I remember correctly. I just clicked "delete" instead of "deactivate" or whatever. Facebook leaves the account deactivated for a week so you can ponder on your choice, but if you don't do anything, it was my understanding that the account gets deleted.
I believe doing the delete account via Facebook will only delete [your own] posts and things on "your timeline/wall". Any comments you made on other peoples posts do not get deleted. I believe, using the "automation" method or similar methods actually goes through and finds all your posts and comments on other people's walls/timelines and also deletes them.
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#45wait, wouldn't it be faster to write a small script to hit the facebook API foreach activity? I thought this was hacker news, not clueless article writer news
Re: I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Deleting your Facebook is difficult? I believe mine is hard deleted (not deactivated), and it was the same workflow as deactivating it, if I remember correctly. I just clicked "delete" instead of "deactivate" or whatever. Facebook leaves the account deactivated for a week so you can ponder on your choice, but if you don't do anything, it was my understanding that the account gets deleted.
I believe doing the delete account via Facebook will only delete [your own] posts and things on "your timeline/wall". Any comments you made on other peoples posts do not get deleted. I believe, using the "automation" method or similar methods actually goes through and finds all your posts and comments on other people's walls/timelines and also deletes them.
I deleted my account and I am pretty sure all your comments on others' things do get deleted..
Re: I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity
#47I "deactivated" my Facebook account long ago. I'd like to delete it, but that apparently involves sacrificing some small animal and studying the entrails for clues. I deleted by Google+ account(s) recently, as well. I have several Twitter accounts with no tweets. I'm thinking of sanitizing my LinkedIn account soon. It's not that I'm anti-social (well, maybe); I am just one of those elder geeks who once dreamt of trul…
I deleted my Twitter account, LinkedIn, and Google+ a couple of years ago. I also Googled myself and slowly removed myself from every other service I haven't used in years. Facebook was the only one I kept as I get a lot of value from it. The only server that has crawled back into my life is Google+, and only for one reason - Android. It's the easiest way to backup all my photos. Not to mention the fact I also use Yo…
Dropbox also has automatic photo uploads, if you're interested in an alternative. The space you're given grows to accommodate your photos such that you virtually have infinite photo storage space.
Re: I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity
#48I "deactivated" my Facebook account long ago. I'd like to delete it, but that apparently involves sacrificing some small animal and studying the entrails for clues. I deleted by Google+ account(s) recently, as well. I have several Twitter accounts with no tweets. I'm thinking of sanitizing my LinkedIn account soon. It's not that I'm anti-social (well, maybe); I am just one of those elder geeks who once dreamt of trul…
Deleting your Facebook is difficult? I believe mine is hard deleted (not deactivated), and it was the same workflow as deactivating it, if I remember correctly. I just clicked "delete" instead of "deactivate" or whatever. Facebook leaves the account deactivated for a week so you can ponder on your choice, but if you don't do anything, it was my understanding that the account gets deleted.
But you may have a shadow account on Facebook, if that rumour is true.
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#49Ooh, cool. I was just idly wondering today whether I could easily delete all my posts from high school (full of angst about calculus and bus rides). If Facebook actually wants people to be using their service in twenty years, they should really build timeline cleansing in.
I agree. Unfortunately, the fact that they include the moment you were born in your timeline makes me feel that they don't want us to easily curate our profile.
I might be a pessimist though, I hope they add the feature.
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#50Expiration dates for posts is a brilliant idea. Who ever is working on the "next Facebook", I hope you implement something like this.
That was a particular bit of brilliance from the article.
One of my friends from G+ (which is to say: someone I met through G+ and started following there) has made a practice of bulk-purging his account every so often.
My own response has been to greatly curtail my activities on the site (due to Google's ever-encroaching property linkages), even though I'm already participating pseudonymously. I've hand-deleted some content, but am holding out on a broader deletion given the prospect of recovering some of my comments (presently not included in the Data Liberation Front), with some third-party tools. Though I may just pull the trigger and do a full wipe.
The fact that Google offers this option is actually somewhat commendable.