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Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by Lord-Jobo »

jilles wrote: post #45
spencerflem wrote: post #23

I find it very easy to stay off their feed of algorithmic garbage, but unfortunately despite being (imo) less usable than Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace is what everyone around me uses.

This is the only thing keeping me from deleting my Facebook account. I recently moved and wanted to sell some things. Listed about 8 things on Craigslist and got some shady replies. I listed the same 8 things on Facebook Marketplace and sold everything within days...

Made a very fake account filled with very fake info, using a blurry profile picture of a random person on LinkedIn who looks very vaguely like me.

Might as well poison the well if I'm going to have the account for marketplace

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by bayindirh »

nailer wrote: post #110
bayindirh wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nobody in this thread is stating that Trump is either good or bad That's true, incl. me. > that is a straw man you have created to argue with. Did I said or implied Trump is bad? No. What I said is, being elected is not an indicator of goodness of badness of a leader, and said that there's a large list, without giving any names, because goodness and badness is subjective. > Being elected is obviously an indicator o…

> Did I said or implied Trump is bad Yes, you wrote history is full of bad leaders. Nobody is discussing whether Trump is good or bad.

> Nobody is discussing whether Trump is good or bad.

Exactly. I said "we'll see", not "Trump is bad".

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by nailer »

bayindirh wrote: post #112
nailer wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Did I said or implied Trump is bad Yes, you wrote history is full of bad leaders. Nobody is discussing whether Trump is good or bad.

> Nobody is discussing whether Trump is good or bad. Exactly. I said "we'll see", not "Trump is bad".

Precisely, you wrote you will see whether Trump is bad:

> Errm, history is full of bad leaders who were elected by people and by democratic means.

You then wrote that being elected is by no means and indicator. It is not an indication of being good or bad, but rather an indication of the will of people. Which in this case, for the fifth time is that men should be out of women’s spaces.

I don’t think this conversation is working. We have very different ways of engaging in debate.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by bayindirh »

nailer wrote: post #113
bayindirh wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nobody is discussing whether Trump is good or bad. Exactly. I said "we'll see", not "Trump is bad".

Precisely, you wrote you will see whether Trump is bad: > Errm, history is full of bad leaders who were elected by people and by democratic means. You then wrote that being elected is by no means and indicator. It is not an indication of being good or bad, but rather an indication of the will of people. Which in this case, for the fifth time is that men should be out of women’s spaces. I don’t think this conversation…

> You then wrote that being elected is by no means and indicator.

Yes.

> It is not an indication of being good or bad, but rather an indication of the will of people.

I did tell "elected by people and by democratic means", which squarely means "this was the will of the people", so we have no disagreements on that front.

> Which in this case, for the fifth time is that men should be out of women’s spaces.

?

> I don’t think this conversation is working.

That's absolutely correct.

> We have very different ways of engaging in debate.

Yes. I won't argue about that further.

Have a good day.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by TheNewsIsHere »

UncleOxidant wrote: post #15
redeux wrote: post #4

I deleted my FB account a long long time ago and then a few years later I wanted to make a new one for business reasons and they blocked me from doing so. I’m not saying don’t delete your account - I still don’t have one, but be aware that it may not be as simple as just creating a new one if you change your mind in the future.

You couldn't use a secondary or business email account to sign up?

In my experience, no.

For all the bots that clearly get through, they have some pretty onerous algorithms at work to figure out if you’ve ever had another account. It seems to matter not whether you use a different email or IP address. The same name alone seemed to be enough for them to lock a business account I was trying to create.

They’ve gotten a LOT more aggressive I think. About 12 years ago I created a second account in my own name for use exclusively with family, and never had issues with that one. I think that part of their risk analysis is that whatever risk analysis was performed at the time the account was created is somewhat sticky. Likely to prevent complaints about changing goalposts.

Of course I don’t use any Facebook/Meta property anymore.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by bobjordan »

foogazi wrote: post #80
bobjordan wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lets give them time to cook. It's likely the team refactoring these rules are mostly the same team that was leading the previous censorship. It's going to take some time to open back up.

You think they sent Zuck out there to talk about half-baked ideas ?

I don't think anyone "sent Zuck out there" - this policy reversal isn't a bottom up decision.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by pull_my_finger »

amyames wrote: post #87
mediumsmart wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But if the deactivated account was still there for you to try and access and for fb to reactivate it and then you come and try to impersonate that old account with a new one the system has good reasons not let you do that and not telling the potential identity thief about these reasons is the right way to do it.

I see your point: Facebook is known for having “shadow profiles” on people who have never used Facebook in their lives. So to them, “this is the profile we’ve decided is amy “ and “this one isn’t.” Even if it is….

This is exactly why I _haven't_ deleted my account. Until the make a way for me to 100% delete my data, removing my own access to it seems counterproductive.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by krowfromthewall »

james_pm wrote: post #13
redeux wrote: post #4

I deleted my FB account a long long time ago and then a few years later I wanted to make a new one for business reasons and they blocked me from doing so. I’m not saying don’t delete your account - I still don’t have one, but be aware that it may not be as simple as just creating a new one if you change your mind in the future.

Same. I have Instagram and Threads accounts, but I tried to get Facebook back about 5 years after deleting it and immediately got asked for ID and then was banned with no appeal possible. I guess they take deleting your account very personally.

similar thing happened to me, my recently opened Instagram account was suspended saying that it was being used for spam (even though there were no posts or comments, only liking and saving other people's posts), and allowed me to get it back only after adding a phone number.
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