I'm not sure deleting an Instagram account completely removes it from Facebook's servers. I recently deleted an old account, and after it was completely removed, I wanted to create a new one with the same username, but it complained that the username could not be used because it still "exists".
Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
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#62I have friends and family, and groups in which I discuss highly specific topics. I don't think there's a better tool than Facebook that allows me to stay up to date on things that are important to me. The equivalent subreddits are of much worse quality. I know this will get downvotes, but this is my opinion.
I've been without Facebook for a decade now. Given what I know, it sounds like I'm missing out on some good stuff going on in Facebook Groups. I also hear Facebook Marketplace is the new Craigslist but Craigslist has been good enough for me still.
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#63If you want to clean history regularly instead of deleting the account, you can use https://redact.dev . I use it to clean twitter on regular interval. It works with every service except Google and Apple related ones (They can't add support for those without getting kicked off the app stores)
How do they get around only being able to get at your last 3000 tweets?
If I have 6000, and it deletes 3000. Does it show the next 3000?
No idea, just wondering if it's just batches of 3000 would solve that.
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#64Please don’t do this. It’s really sad every time I want to reach out to an old friend and I can’t because they deleted their fb :( I mean, if you don’t have such connections then who cares, but if you do think about that
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Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#65I have friends and family, and groups in which I discuss highly specific topics. I don't think there's a better tool than Facebook that allows me to stay up to date on things that are important to me. The equivalent subreddits are of much worse quality. I know this will get downvotes, but this is my opinion.
Discord has taken over this role for me and all my social groups. And unlike Facebook there's no ads, no viral bullshit, no astroturfers, no personal information, and you can keep your identities separate across multiple social circles (all of which are private and invite-only by default).
Facebook at least doesn’t force me to subscribe to a 5$ service in order to upload images from my phone.
It’s so annoying that they can’t just compress images and videos on the client. Right now I’m always sharing videos and photos to telegram first, since their client actually compresses most of the files below 8MB and then continue sharing it to discord once again.
The UX as a free discord user is horrible.
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#66I'm not even convinced deleting (and especially deactivating) your account does anything besides handing over control to Facebook and others. Perhaps it is better to obfuscate the data in your account and just not log in, even if emotionally less appealing than deleting.
No photo, some random DOB, location and obscure employement history for me.
I used to advertise on FB so had to maintain an account purely for this purpose but noticed a few times that 'people you may know' were usually a result of random encounters looking me up. Maybe because only facebook can verify you're not a creep or something?
One time I asked soemone out on a date and she seemed keen until the next day she had changed her mind. Probably pure coincidence that this person I didn't know until 2 days before was suddenly one of my 'people you may know' list.
Sure enough my blank FB profile was the giveaway that I am actually a serial killer. Now I'd rather these people just go down a rabbit hole of looking through 1000 possible matches and finding nothing instead.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discord has taken over this role for me and all my social groups. And unlike Facebook there's no ads, no viral bullshit, no astroturfers, no personal information, and you can keep your identities separate across multiple social circles (all of which are private and invite-only by default).
Facebook at least doesn’t force me to subscribe to a 5$ service in order to upload images from my phone. It’s so annoying that they can’t just compress images and videos on the client. Right now I’m always sharing videos and photos to telegram first, since their client actually compresses most of the files below 8MB and then continue sharing it to discord once again. The UX as a free discord user is horrible.
Facebook gets its pound of flesh from you in other ways.
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#68I have friends and family, and groups in which I discuss highly specific topics. I don't think there's a better tool than Facebook that allows me to stay up to date on things that are important to me. The equivalent subreddits are of much worse quality. I know this will get downvotes, but this is my opinion.
Discord has taken over this role for me and all my social groups. And unlike Facebook there's no ads, no viral bullshit, no astroturfers, no personal information, and you can keep your identities separate across multiple social circles (all of which are private and invite-only by default).
Some groups are really dependent on evidence the person is who they say they were - especially parent groups /Mom groups, health groups, where you’re looking for advice or legitimate local socialization / resource information.
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#69Here's a sample letter for European citizens that would like to make a legally-binding data subject deletion request: https://www.datarequests.org/blog/sample-letter-gdpr-erasure... Send this letter by email and my registered snail mail letter to the Data Protection Officer of the company (e.g. Facebook's Dublin Office). Violating such a request can lead to fines of 4% of annual revenue of any offending company.
If a company violates 25 requests, does it lose all revenue?