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Deleting Facebook
- rublev 8y agoMissed the "cool for deleting facebook" boat by like a good year.
- gkilmain 8y agoI once told my bookie to delete my account. He said he can't remove it from the db but he can try his best to not accept any wagers from the account. I've since wagered 100 + times that conversation. Maybe fb is the same. Maybe they know sooner or later, some how either through curiosity or some stupid link you click on, you'll be back?
- taneq 8y agoIt's the same way you can't delete your World of Warcraft account, only 'de-activate' it. They know you'll be back. (Of course you can do things like trash all your gear, then delete all your characters, but unless you do that the temptation will always be there...)
- Qwertie 8y agoThats illegal since the GDPR.
- taneq 8y agoWell, in Europe maybe. And only if a game character and items in their game count as your data. (IIRC there was actually something in the license agreement about all characters remaining property of Blizzard.)
- lokedhs 8y agoThe GDPR is about personal information. That is your name, address, email, IP address that you used to connect with, etc. So yes, they can keep your character, but they have to delete anything that can link that character to you.
- wolco 8y agoDeleting facebook is like saying bye to older contact or classmates. Most will not make it through the refriend on new social media platform stage. It is likely this will be the last time you ever have a chance to connect with this person.
- askmike 8y agoUntil the next things pops up. I remember people saying the same about Myspace and Hyves (the very definition of social media in the Netherlands a decade ago) and even MSN before that.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoWith each reincarnation you always lose a few. Well I have. There's always some fragmentation of which network people end up on next or some stick with the old one far longer than most.
- mooreds 8y agoOr google them or connect on linked in or send them an email. Wait, you don't have their email? You've not sent them an email in 1/5/10 years? Why would you need to connect in the next 1/5/10 years? Seriously though, if you really need to connect with someone and they are on the internet, google can help you find them. You will miss out on serendipitous interaction with loose connections, and that is a real concern. However, the signal to noise ratio of my feeds was so low that such interaction rarely happened anyway.
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- nlowell 8y agoBring over whoever you actually contacted within the previous two years (or some other rule of thumb)?
- sotojuan 8y agoYep. People are quick to raise the "well if you can't talk to them without Facebook they aren't real friends" argument but fail to realize it is entirely normal to have acquaintances or relationships with people without them being your close friends, at least for those in the younger age groups (20s?). I'm actually not on Facebook but that was a big downside of leaving the platform when I did (i.e. when people my age actually used it).
- bArray 8y agoI wonder how deleting Facebook works with regards to shadow accounts - do they still store you in some DB as a shadow person just by being associated with somebody still using FB?
- jeromegv 8y agoYes they do.
- jonny_eh 8y agoSummary: Guy that didn't use Facebook much deleted his Facebook account.
- jaxn 8y agoI have too many customer relationships on Facebook. It's my own fault for creating a Users Group for our software on Facebook. If it wasn't for that, I would delete my account.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoShould move that group to something off-network sooner rather than later. Otherwise, you never know when the rug gets pulled out by Facebook.
- jaxn 8y agoAgreed.
- gumby 8y agoDoesn't FB have shadow accounts/profiles even of people not on FB? I seem to remember when I created my account it already suggested all sorts of people for me to connect with. In which case...what is deletion?
- brudgers 8y agoSuspension of write access via the web to a node in the graph?
- mmaunder 8y agoPeople with huge networks like Brad leaving FB matters. A hub with many spokes leaves the network and influences others to leave, rinse, repeat.
- ScottAS 8y agoI’m not sure it matters too much. A user can only have an absolute maximum of 5000 friends and most people don’t ever reach that, including famous people. Networks like Twitter and Instagram which are focused on asymmetric “following” rather than friending have a lot more to lose when a “hub” leaves.
- kovrik 8y agoHonestly, I don't really understand why we are getting posts like this one. People don't post 'How I deleted my Github account', right? So what's the big deal? Is it some kind of accomplishment and people expect praise? UPD: I mean, if you are not using FB anymore (like me), then does it really matter if you delete it or not? If you actually do use it, then why delete it?