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Last week I permanently deleted my FaceBook account. All my data since 2007 (10 years) and friends gone. Well...apparently my data is still somewhere to be used

Last week I permanently deleted my FaceBook account. All my data since 2007 (10 years) and friends gone. Well...apparently my data is still somewhere to be used as metadata... Still, I must say, this was a liberating experience. I don't go there anymore to see another cat/new born/fake news posts. I don't get get angry with dumb comments. I don't have to see at my friends are eating, selfies, etc.. My closest friends and family are reachable one whatsapp/imessage/phone call away. The other hundreds "friends" I had on FB, I don't even remember their names anymore...

anondon 10y ago
Facebook provides an option to download an archive of your data, you should have downloaded it before deleting your account. Apart from having all your data, it would have been the final nail in your Facebook coffin. To say the least, the data scared the f*ck out of me : they knew me better than any of my family or friends. The ad tracking data was...bang on target, they had facial recognition data, all the locations I signed in from. I sometimes joke that Fb knows more about people than the Government of the user. It's true!
grenoire 10y ago
To my knowledge, your account is never actually gone but instead deactivated. Not sure if there is a grace period to that, but as anondon said you can get an archive of all your data (which is what I did before deleting my account).
- debt 10y ago
  Facebook provides a real delete option. It's hidden but it's there. https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
  - yellow_viper 10y ago
    Does this delete your data too? I spent about 2 days the other day running a script to delete all my data way back to 2010.
    - debt 10y ago
      I'm pretty sure it's a genuine delete button.
      - goooorhio 10y ago
        No way do they actually delete your information It's replicated all over the planet many times over and they share it with other businesses and agencies Even if they did, your friends and family talk about you and they're not going to censor all that information too
        koko775 10y ago
        It gets deleted. Facebook Ireland Audit Report.
  - phatbyte 10y ago
    This was the exact option I used.
icantdrive55 10y ago
I must have deactivated 300 times. It's only ten clicks. They always keep every bit of information on your account when reactivating. Facebook will never forget you--sadly. (I would like to see a perment delete for all databases. I would like to see a bill go to congress, and then the Senate, that guarantees a complete wipe of our information. Or, if Donny is listening--a Presidential decree? That seems to be fashionable the last few days.)

anondon 10y ago

Facebook provides an option to download an archive of your data, you should have downloaded it before deleting your account. Apart from having all your data, it would have been the final nail in your Facebook coffin. To say the least, the data scared the f*ck out of me : they knew me better than any of my family or friends. The ad tracking data was...bang on target, they had facial recognition data, all the locations I signed in from. I sometimes joke that Fb knows more about people than the Government of the user. It's true!

grenoire 10y ago

To my knowledge, your account is never actually gone but instead deactivated. Not sure if there is a grace period to that, but as anondon said you can get an archive of all your data (which is what I did before deleting my account).

debt 10y ago
Facebook provides a real delete option. It's hidden but it's there. https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
- yellow_viper 10y ago
  Does this delete your data too? I spent about 2 days the other day running a script to delete all my data way back to 2010.
  - debt 10y ago
    I'm pretty sure it's a genuine delete button.
    - goooorhio 10y ago
      No way do they actually delete your information It's replicated all over the planet many times over and they share it with other businesses and agencies Even if they did, your friends and family talk about you and they're not going to censor all that information too
      - koko775 10y ago
        It gets deleted. Facebook Ireland Audit Report.
- phatbyte 10y ago
  This was the exact option I used.

icantdrive55 10y ago

I must have deactivated 300 times. It's only ten clicks. They always keep every bit of information on your account when reactivating. Facebook will never forget you--sadly. (I would like to see a perment delete for all databases. I would like to see a bill go to congress, and then the Senate, that guarantees a complete wipe of our information. Or, if Donny is listening--a Presidential decree? That seems to be fashionable the last few days.)