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Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

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Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

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Deleted it in 2017, still deleted now. I've grown tired of having a "footprint" online. I miss the old days of anonymous handles. I no longer use the same username for different services, or emails either.

I would delete my hn account if I could - @dang.

Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

#153

No. I actually created a Facebook account in 2018. The problem is that without Facebook you will miss out. Sure, close friends and family will invite you to their social events, but more distant acquaintances will not; you know, the bloke you met at the pub last week and had a 20 minute chat with, or that cute girl you talked to but then she suddenly she was dragged off to a birthday party by her friends. By missing…

> Facebook didn't really "delete" my old account, as after I rejoined it remembered many of my previous friends Do you happen to live in Europe, by chance?

He probably merely deactivated it and thought deactivation equals deletion. It does not.

Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

#154
I deactivated it for a few months. I've reactivated it since. I live in a small town of about 300 homes, all the city information is posted in the city facebook page. It doesn't suck time from my day anymore since I broke the addiction (now reddit is my only addiction left) and I have the firefox container extensions and ublock origin so i'm satisfied it's not tracking me.

Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

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Yes, deleting all posts (using Social Book Posts Manager[1] IIRC) and other footprints as much as possible before I did. Of course, I can't control whether Facebook actually performed those deletions or just simulated it to my satisfaction. On retrospect I'm now just sick that I was ever caught up in their "engagement at any expense" Skinner Box to the extent that I was. I'd have Facebook open in one tab and start ty…

I also did this, except I went through and mostly manually deleted everything first. It took weeks, I'm not kidding. There's a page where you can batch delete most posts, but only 50 at a time, and it doesn't always work because the calls take so long that they quite often time out. Most anything else is snappy, certainly posting stuff is, but deleting things can take several seconds per post. I ended up hacking toge…

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Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

#159

No. I actually created a Facebook account in 2018. The problem is that without Facebook you will miss out. Sure, close friends and family will invite you to their social events, but more distant acquaintances will not; you know, the bloke you met at the pub last week and had a 20 minute chat with, or that cute girl you talked to but then she suddenly she was dragged off to a birthday party by her friends. By missing…

> Facebook didn't really "delete" my old account, as after I rejoined it remembered many of my previous friends Do you happen to live in Europe, by chance?

Yes; I was living in the UK when I created the account, but am Dutch. I now live in New Zealand. Does this matter?
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