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>Some of the things you do on Facebook aren’t stored in your account. For example, a friend may still have messages from you even after you delete your account.
by remarkEon 9y ago
>Some of the things you do on Facebook aren’t stored in your account. For example, a friend may still have messages from you even after you delete your account. That information remains after you delete your account.
Why? What possible purpose does this serve?
- TAForObvReasons 9y agoIt's pretty obvious: A message between two people exists as two separate units in two separate locations. Deleting the account deletes only one copy, namely the copy that exists on your end. The digital analogue is a text message -- deleting the text message locally, say by physically destroying your phone, doesn't actually erase the message on the other side.
- dannyw 9y agoI’d be very surprised if Facebook is wasting half of their messages DCs by storing each message twice, instead of deduplicating them.
- actuallyalys 9y agoIt's probably not literally true that Facebook stores two copies of each message (or three or more copies for group chats), but it makes sense for Facebook to act like it does because that's how email and text messages work.
- remarkEon 9y agoSee my above comment. I don’t see how Facebook can reconcile deleting your comments on things like statuses and preserving messages in the Messenger app. Maybe that just means they aren’t actually deleting your comments.
- saagarjha 9y agoI’m all for the ability to delete Facebook accounts, but I think that once you’ve willfully shared a message with someone, deleting your account shouldn’t delete your messages. Chats feel like “shared” ownership of the messages in them.
- remarkEon 9y agoBut by that logic literally any post on Facebook should be preserved. Commenting on a status is a “willfully shared message” right? What makes Messenger different? Just the limited audience?