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Holy shit... Literally ten years of Facebook posts and people's comments on them just up and disappeared from my profile. How is that ok?

magic_beans 8y ago
Because Facebook can do whatever it wants??
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  I'm not sure why you were downvoted for this. It's right there in their ToS.
- phito 8y ago
  It's crazy the amount of people who think Facebook owes them something If you are really that attached to your Facebook page then do a backup. If you really think it's unacceptable that Facebook can do whatever they want with your data (and they can), just don't use it.
mb_72 8y ago
Hopefully it's just a 'soft' delete, and this can be undone. I can't imagine FB actually hard-deleting any information that might help them in terms of ads etc.
- hvidgaard 8y ago
  It's 99.9999% not a hard delete. They have fail overs and multiple backups.
  - yoz-y 8y ago
    Especially since it is practically impossible to delete anything there intentionally.
- deleted 8y ago
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GhostVII 8y ago
It sounds like it wasn't intentional, as Facebook has said they are looking into it, rather than putting out a post explaining their reasoning behind it.
- egfx 8y ago
  It was intentional and posted about here https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/link-twitter-to-facebook https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/link-twitt... and there was an HN story about this 19 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17721986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17721986 why is TechCrunch just picking up on this now?
  - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
    Intentional on Twitter's part, yes. They're the ones who deleted their app.
iagooar 8y ago
How can this be an issue? Since when you can claim anything posted on FB and expect it to stay online forever? It's a private company in an unregulated field, they can do whatever they want. They could decide to close shop any time if they wanted.

magic_beans 8y ago

Because Facebook can do whatever it wants??

SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
I'm not sure why you were downvoted for this. It's right there in their ToS.
phito 8y ago
It's crazy the amount of people who think Facebook owes them something If you are really that attached to your Facebook page then do a backup. If you really think it's unacceptable that Facebook can do whatever they want with your data (and they can), just don't use it.

mb_72 8y ago

Hopefully it's just a 'soft' delete, and this can be undone. I can't imagine FB actually hard-deleting any information that might help them in terms of ads etc.

hvidgaard 8y ago
It's 99.9999% not a hard delete. They have fail overs and multiple backups.
- yoz-y 8y ago
  Especially since it is practically impossible to delete anything there intentionally.
deleted 8y ago
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GhostVII 8y ago

It sounds like it wasn't intentional, as Facebook has said they are looking into it, rather than putting out a post explaining their reasoning behind it.

egfx 8y ago
It was intentional and posted about here https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/link-twitter-to-facebook https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/link-twitt... and there was an HN story about this 19 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17721986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17721986 why is TechCrunch just picking up on this now?
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  Intentional on Twitter's part, yes. They're the ones who deleted their app.

iagooar 8y ago

How can this be an issue? Since when you can claim anything posted on FB and expect it to stay online forever? It's a private company in an unregulated field, they can do whatever they want. They could decide to close shop any time if they wanted.