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Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by redeux »

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?

Probably, but I already didn't like FB. I was just doing it as a checkbox to say we were on FB too. Once they were actively hostile to me it was no longer worth it. As a matter of course, I try not to interact with hostile people or companies if I can help it.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by rvnx »

Pedro_Ribeiro wrote: post #9
rvnx wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depending on the website owners or influences there are always things you cannot freely say. Even here on this forum.

And what is that? Maybe I'm not deep enough into HN to know about this.

One example from yesterday of “what can’t be said”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630197

or

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630067

Or let’s say, it technically can be said, but you get somehow punished (flagged, downvoted, etc) so you learn not to do it anymore. The incentive is simply not there.

There is a logic, the “community” flags to protect their own interests (financial investments, friends working there, etc).

And since the community is from the same group, they defend the same interests.

The more freely we can talk about a topic, the more genuine and thought-provoking interactions it can create (without intentionally hurting the others obviously).

If you filter too much, you get this LinkedIn-bullshit and it makes a message board super boring, as you live in a closed bubble.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by redeux »

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.

> got asked for ID and then was banned with no appeal possible

This is exactly what happened to me as well.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by [deleted] »

naturalpb wrote: post #12
lawlessone wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great, what was it you were worried you couldn't say there?

I consume on social platforms, rather than creating. I was growingly aware of the platform's bias on the content I saw and opted out for reality (as close as one can get to it, anyway). The changes this week are a step in the right direction as other viewpoints are more possible, let alone tolerated.

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Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by mixmastamyk »

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.

Aren't most services demanding multifactor id these days? Ostensibly to defend against fraud, but nicely dovetails into their surveillance databases.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by hagbard_c »

While I'm all on board with deleting Facebook accounts - and deleting Facebook itself - the timing of this push is odd. Now that Facebook claims to open up the platform for a wider view than just the desired narrative is the time to get rid of your account? Please explain to me how it was better to be held on a short leash than to be allowed to run out that leash a little bit.

I never had a Facebook account and as such I can not delete it but had I had one the time to delete it would have been when they started censoring anything which went against the desired narrative - probably around the time of the SARS2 unpleasantness - and not now that they claim to have been too censorious and 'promise' to allow more free speech. The same thing happened when Musk turned Twitter into X which makes me wonder why some people are so eager to embrace the censor and shun those places where he was kicked to the curb (even if I don't trust anything Zuckerberg says on this subject, he has shown his true colours a long time ago and they are dark and unpleasant to look at).

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by pesus »

jsheard wrote: post #14
naturalpb wrote: post #3

Funny, I just signed up for a Facebook account this week after the news,having deleted mine in 2017. In my opinion, they are taking a step in the right direction. Clearly others disagree, which is their right. What isn't someone's right is to dictate truth, which is what Facebook will ostensibly do less of. Bravo

Part of the pushback is because they are still dictating what you can say except for some very particular exceptions which give away their true intentions. You're still not allowed to call someone mentally ill as an insult, unless you're doing it homophobically or transphobically, in which case it's now explicitly allowed. https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lf72fz3fas22 If they'd removed that rule altogether…

Yup. The line about the "non serious usage of 'weird'" is another blatant sign of their true intentions. There's no reason to specify that unless you're upset over it because it was used against conservatives.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by chikenf00t »

I deleted my Facebook account back in 2015. I was in high school and going through a deep depression/mental break down. I remember feeling so much relief as the days went on. I don't think I was ever designed to handle social media properly. I doubt I'm the only one either.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by gazchop »

Deleted mine after they refused to let me make a comment on an unrelated group that Gatwick Airport is horrible on a Monday morning. Figured the algorithmic moderation was terrible and likely to waste my time conforming to some narrow and undefined form of speech. Not allowed to make a rational criticism.

Then two days later, rather than fix that, they announce the change to moderation methodology which has benefits to the highest bidder rather than the community.

Smells like another cesspit like X in the making.

Gone! Both are bad. The problem is the platform existing at this point.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by nailer »

jsheard wrote: post #14
naturalpb wrote: post #3

Funny, I just signed up for a Facebook account this week after the news,having deleted mine in 2017. In my opinion, they are taking a step in the right direction. Clearly others disagree, which is their right. What isn't someone's right is to dictate truth, which is what Facebook will ostensibly do less of. Bravo

Part of the pushback is because they are still dictating what you can say except for some very particular exceptions which give away their true intentions. You're still not allowed to call someone mentally ill as an insult, unless you're doing it homophobically or transphobically, in which case it's now explicitly allowed. https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lf72fz3fas22 If they'd removed that rule altogether…

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