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I think it's worth stating: if you're not deleting your friend connections, you're not leaving. I say that because your friends retain their friend count, and

I think it's worth stating: if you're not deleting your friend connections, you're not leaving. I say that because your friends retain their friend count, and that's a big part of FB-identity. Also, you can always pick it back up when "they" fix the problem (which isn't fixable). I made my act public, left a message with contact info as my last message, and then deleted all my "friends" (which was, honestly, a pretty nice reminder of folks I hadn't spoken with in a while). Finally, I bcc'd them on an email so I could stay in touch. I can always reply-all that email if I need to spam them with news/info/etc... it's not a perfect solution, but it's the best I could come up with on my own, and I'm advising my friends to do the same.

matte_black 9y ago
What did you do about weak link connections, did you send them emails as well or just drop them out?
- mr_spothawk 9y ago
  Yeah, absolutely I sent an email to the weak connections I wanted to retain, though it didn't include all of them. To be fair, i'd been pruning for years. The CA thing wasn't such a surprise (though it's impacts certainly were) because I've been a paranoid shit for most of my recent life. I had been using a false name on my primary FB since I started the account in ~2008... funny anecdote, I once got a popup on my real account with a question about my "fake" profile: "Is this a real person?" Yes, of course... and now I'm going to make a post on my wall asking my friends to please say "yes" if they got the same question.
abhishekjha 9y ago
I have an account which I use just to talk or argue with anybody on the facebook, mostly in news comment sections. No photo, no apps, no friends. Just a profile name. I wonder if anything can still get attached to me.
- mr_spothawk 9y ago
  if you stay logged in, you are serving them your browsing history in indirect ways.

matte_black 9y ago

What did you do about weak link connections, did you send them emails as well or just drop them out?

mr_spothawk 9y ago
Yeah, absolutely I sent an email to the weak connections I wanted to retain, though it didn't include all of them. To be fair, i'd been pruning for years. The CA thing wasn't such a surprise (though it's impacts certainly were) because I've been a paranoid shit for most of my recent life. I had been using a false name on my primary FB since I started the account in ~2008... funny anecdote, I once got a popup on my real account with a question about my "fake" profile: "Is this a real person?" Yes, of course... and now I'm going to make a post on my wall asking my friends to please say "yes" if they got the same question.

abhishekjha 9y ago

I have an account which I use just to talk or argue with anybody on the facebook, mostly in news comment sections. No photo, no apps, no friends. Just a profile name. I wonder if anything can still get attached to me.

mr_spothawk 9y ago
if you stay logged in, you are serving them your browsing history in indirect ways.