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Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account

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Post by dotancohen »

shadowfaxRodeo wrote: post #15

I got rid of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp about 4 years ago. Facebook and Instagram was easy, but people who have WhatsApp really think you’re weird for not having it. Deleting WhatsApp, while annoying for me personally, has resulted in many people I know joining Signal or Telegram — the network effect can be broken by being belligerent. If you don’t want to have a conversation about why you deleted WhatsApp, si…

I could have written this comment word for word.

People get _offended_ when you tell them that you don't have Whatsapp. But I let them hold that hot coal themselves.

Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account

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Post by Helmut10001 »

shadowfaxRodeo wrote: post #15

I got rid of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp about 4 years ago. Facebook and Instagram was easy, but people who have WhatsApp really think you’re weird for not having it. Deleting WhatsApp, while annoying for me personally, has resulted in many people I know joining Signal or Telegram — the network effect can be broken by being belligerent. If you don’t want to have a conversation about why you deleted WhatsApp, si…

Use mautrix-whatsapp [1] on a home server to bridge Matrix chat to WhatsApp and (optionally) add a dedicated VoIP phone number for WhatApp.

Allows you to connect to/chat with WhatApp users using Matrix/Element.

[1]: https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp

Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account

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Post by bennyp101 »

I actually ended up creating a new Facebook account, with fake name/details and no friends. Most of the local information for the village I live in, and the surrounding ones is posted and discussed on Facebook.

So, if we want to join in on the Halloween trail, need to know about it on there. Christmas window displays? Yep, on Facebook.

It's kinda annoying, and I figure they probably know who I am - but at least I'm not directly giving them info :/

Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account

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Post by croh »

shadowfaxRodeo wrote: post #15

I got rid of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp about 4 years ago. Facebook and Instagram was easy, but people who have WhatsApp really think you’re weird for not having it. Deleting WhatsApp, while annoying for me personally, has resulted in many people I know joining Signal or Telegram — the network effect can be broken by being belligerent. If you don’t want to have a conversation about why you deleted WhatsApp, si…

Why isnt it possible to delete amazon account permanently ? Amazon still doesn't give option to delete purchase history which is kind of super annoying.

Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account

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Post by MrDresden »

I thoroughly oppose the idea that to be able to have meaningful human relationships, I need to subscribe to a walled garden run by a profit hungry private entity with an extremely bad track record of handling privacy, security and ethics.

I exited their whole ecosystem 2 years ago. Never found the urge to go back.

Leaving all of the fake-ery of Instagram and noise of Facebook behind has improved my day to day life immensely.

Many of my Whatsapp contacts had already begun to move to Signal so that helped. Some of the rest I talk to through Twitter. With the viable rest I call or use sms.

A lot of them I just let go (were dead relationships already).

Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account

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Post by stevecat »

Something seems to remain on their servers though.

I own a very short gmail.com address which I'm (far too) proud of but it does receive a lot of other people's mail; there are apparently a lot of people called Steve who don't understand how email addresses work.

Someone created and then permanently deleted a Facebook account with my address. Which has permanently locked me out of ever using my email address with Facebook (they block +alias addresses and gmail/googlemail.com too). I use Facebook casually to keep in touch with family/friends and have had to keep an old email account alive just for it. Facebook support are no help.

/rant

Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account

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Post by Traster »

croh wrote: post #26
shadowfaxRodeo wrote: post #15

I got rid of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp about 4 years ago. Facebook and Instagram was easy, but people who have WhatsApp really think you’re weird for not having it. Deleting WhatsApp, while annoying for me personally, has resulted in many people I know joining Signal or Telegram — the network effect can be broken by being belligerent. If you don’t want to have a conversation about why you deleted WhatsApp, si…

Why isnt it possible to delete amazon account permanently ? Amazon still doesn't give option to delete purchase history which is kind of super annoying.

I think Amazon is actually a different story to a certain extent. Sure, you can delete your account, but at the end of the day you've transacted with them and they can keep a record of who they've transacted with, right? Personally I think it would be unreasonable for me to demand that a shop I buy from delete the record of who purchased it.

Re: How to permanently delete your Facebook account

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Post by stevecat »

pmlnr wrote: post #5
cyberpsybin wrote: post #4

Unpopular opinion: Facebook is quite decent and gives sufficient controls over privacy to its users. Google on other hand is horrendous.

> sufficient controls over privacy to its users He? By how, showing a cookie window in EU and not even respecting the settings in there?

The privacy controls in-app are pretty good with regards to who you share your posts with, etc. but I don't think that's the same type of privacy that causes people to leave.
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