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It does matter. It sends a message, and it frees your mind to use a cliché. If you don't have a Facebook account anymore, it's easier to get over the dopamine a

It does matter. It sends a message, and it frees your mind to use a cliché. If you don't have a Facebook account anymore, it's easier to get over the dopamine addiction because you can't log into an account that you don't have anymore.

anonytrary 8y ago
> ...easier to get over the dopamine addiction because you can't log into an account that you don't have anymore. What you say is only true if you can suppress your addiction for N days without logging in. Deleting a Facebook account takes N days to "process", but everyone knows its just a manipulative policy designed to prevent people from following through with deletion. For all intents and purposes, when you try to delete your Facebook account, they basically say "Sorry, we won't let you do that until you can prove you won't use it again for N days". Logging in at any time before the Nth day will automatically abort the deletion. On top of that, there's this practice of differentiating between suspension and deletion going around, which makes proper deletion an intentionally obfuscated task. I remember deleting my Quora account to be a strangely convoluted process. There needs to be a distinction between "proper deletion" and "not even a deletion". The current account deletion feature is "not even a deletion". I hope one day "not even a deletion" is looked down upon enough to warrant change. Deletion means "proper deletion", it never meant anything else to anyone.
- icebraining 8y ago
  I'm a critic of FB, but to play Devil's advocate, they'd be criticized if they summarily deleted accounts too. This provides some protection against malicious deletion requests.
  - caf 8y ago
    Right - leave your ipad on the table for a moment and your bratty little brother can irrevocably delete your facebook account? People would hit the roof.

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It does matter. It sends a message, and it frees your mind to use a cliché. If you don't have a Facebook account anymore, it's easier to get over the dopamine a

by coaxial 8y ago

anonytrary 8y ago
> ...easier to get over the dopamine addiction because you can't log into an account that you don't have anymore. What you say is only true if you can suppress your addiction for N days without logging in. Deleting a Facebook account takes N days to "process", but everyone knows its just a manipulative policy designed to prevent people from following through with deletion. For all intents and purposes, when you try to delete your Facebook account, they basically say "Sorry, we won't let you do that until you can prove you won't use it again for N days". Logging in at any time before the Nth day will automatically abort the deletion. On top of that, there's this practice of differentiating between suspension and deletion going around, which makes proper deletion an intentionally obfuscated task. I remember deleting my Quora account to be a strangely convoluted process. There needs to be a distinction between "proper deletion" and "not even a deletion". The current account deletion feature is "not even a deletion". I hope one day "not even a deletion" is looked down upon enough to warrant change. Deletion means "proper deletion", it never meant anything else to anyone.
- icebraining 8y ago
  I'm a critic of FB, but to play Devil's advocate, they'd be criticized if they summarily deleted accounts too. This provides some protection against malicious deletion requests.
  - caf 8y ago
    Right - leave your ipad on the table for a moment and your bratty little brother can irrevocably delete your facebook account? People would hit the roof.