Ironically, being able to keep track of who deletes their accounts disappeared when they closed that hole in their API that was used to extract friends lists (i

Ironically, being able to keep track of who deletes their accounts disappeared when they closed that hole in their API that was used to extract friends lists (it broke this app I wrote years ago): https://penguindreams.org/blog/discoverying-friend-list-changes-on-facebook-with-python/ https://penguindreams.org/blog/discoverying-friend-list-chan... Because I've lived in so many places and different countries, there are a lot of people who I can only communicate with over Messenger. I usually use the purple-facebook and purple-hangouts plugins. I never read status updates. I only update my status to promote my other blogs/websites. I guess I could switch to sending international texts or ask people for their e-mails (which also means asking them to remove my e-mail from spam since I run my own e-mail server and Google/Microsoft don't really use DMARC/DKIM/SPF and always mark my stuff as spam), but messenger is just easier. I think we'll only see people get rid of Facebook when there are better alternatives to connect on. Even then it's dumb to delete a Facebook account; just stop using it like people did with MySpace.