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Re: How to permanently delete a Facebook account

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Post by tomgirl1 »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #48
tomgirl1 wrote: post #31

I gather this link points to facebook.com. Funny, I deleted my facebook account years ago, but Im sure as heck not going to click on a facebook.com link and find out if I really did! (subtitle, I react to facebook.com links as if they were phishing links and what would be the difference? scraping my contacts, selling my personal data, rewriting my TOS at every opportunity. I view the home page of facebook even withou…

>> "I gather this link points to facebook.com. Funny, I deleted my facebook account years ago, but Im sure as heck not going to click on a facebook.com link and find out if I really did!" So although you don't want a Facebook account, if you have one you forgot about you'd rather not know about it??

No i dont go to phishing sites

Re: How to permanently delete a Facebook account

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Post by lmm »

lawdawg wrote: post #56
ajanuary wrote: post #32

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I've seen stories both from people who continually got pestered (like myself) and from people who didn't (such as yourself). I dunno why though.

are you actually hitting the "No" button, and providing a reason, or are you just closing the dialog?

I gave "No" with reasons, and got asked two or three times.

Re: How to permanently delete a Facebook account

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Post by kryten »

zwily wrote: post #59
kryten wrote: post #9

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It's perfectly possible and reasonable to delete all of your data. It's just hard. We have to do this with our clients if they shift off our platform and believe me, it's not much fun deleting 20-100Gb datasets from a shared database with over 2000 tables in it on production kit. But we do it, because we are honest. Facebook are dishonest. Simple as.

Do you also delete their data from all your database backups?

Yes. They are cycled out after a week. Our data is useless after then as most of it is real time. Audit logs are kept offline in gzipped daily text files per client and these are handed over to the company and deleted.

Re: How to permanently delete a Facebook account

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Post by themonk »

hnha wrote: post #57
rwmj wrote: post #42

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Make sure you maintain control over the domain and always have a robots.txt file present, because if you ever lose that, those files will become visible again. Good luck arranging for your descendents to do this after you die.

just mail them, they are nice people.

it would be nice to have some standard method to delete the content.

Re: How to permanently delete a Facebook account

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Post by normalocity »

In terms of privacy I see two categories of data on a network: (1) data that leaked/has been copied to other people and (2) data that hasn't yet leaked.

The thing is you can never know with certainly when a piece of data has changed from "not leaked" to "leaked", so effectively you have to act as if all data is leaked in all circumstances as soon as you put it on the network.

Re: How to permanently delete a Facebook account

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Post by Bosence »

rlu wrote: post #3

At least I have the option to delete my FB account. On the other hand, Google has lately been aggressively pushing me to convert my YouTube account into a G+ account. Once this is actually forced upon me, is there any way to 'delete' my Google+ account without deleting my YouTube one?

I know it's not the best solution, but I have a dummy G+ account for my youtube account, so it doesn't pester me.

Re: How to permanently delete a Facebook account

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Post by officemonkey »

raspo wrote: post #39
ajanuary wrote: post #32

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I've seen stories both from people who continually got pestered (like myself) and from people who didn't (such as yourself). I dunno why though.

I get all those messages too. I think it's because I'm using an old youtube account that I later connected to the google one.

That's what happened to me too.

Re: How to permanently delete a Facebook account

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Post by rlu »

kybernetyk wrote: post #27
enneff wrote: post #21

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> And I think you should expect the same from every reasonable adult. FYI: Facebook is not primarily populated by reasonable adults.

Can minors legally accept a contract like the Facebook TOS in the US? (Real question, I'm not an US citizen and not a lawyer).

I believe as long as you've over 13, yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prote...
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