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Would be cool to make a script that just deletes everything older than 30 days. Then most of your friends wouldn't notice anything unusual about you in their n
by cwkoss 9y ago
Would be cool to make a script that just deletes everything older than 30 days. Then most of your friends wouldn't notice anything unusual about you in their news feed, but you wouldn't be making as much a large dataset for advertising and political marketing
- HankB99 9y agoWere I FB, I would make sure that the deletion only made the data invisible to the user and kept it for their customers. After all, we "gave them permission" in the first place so this would not violate that. If they're smart, they're already doing that.
- naspinski 9y agoThat is surely what is happening - a general (not always, I know!) rule in programming is to never delete anything, just mark it as deleted/deprecated/etc. and do not show it.
- ascendantlogic 9y agoYeah, I'm pretty sure deleting doesn't really take the data from Facebook. Really all you can do is stop the flow of new data to them.
- cwkoss 9y agoThis leaves two possibilities: If they don't let advertisers query deleted data - my original proposal would be effective at preventing third parties from getting your data. If they DO let advertisers query deleted data - you can 'poison' you account by posting and deleting a huge volume of misleading advertiser-relevant data.