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Does Facebook tell your "friends" that you have deleted your account when you leave? If not it seems like the sort of thing many people would want to announce s

by whyenot 15y ago

Does Facebook tell your "friends" that you have deleted your account when you leave? If not it seems like the sort of thing many people would want to announce somewhere.

joezydeco 15y ago
Look up "Burger King Whopper Sacrifice" for the answer to that question.
- whyenot 15y ago
  While interesting, I'm not really sure how "de-friending" 10 people in order to get a mediocre hamburger has any relation to what happens when someone deletes their account.
  - k-mcgrady 15y ago
    From what I have seen it depends. I don't think it is ever announced that you leave. Sometimes you disappear from friend lists. Other times you remain but when someone tries to view your profile they get a message it doesn't exist. I think the reason they leave you in friends lists is because you can re-activate your account.
zalew 15y ago
no it doesn't, posts just disappear from the wall, you disappear from friends, although there were some bugs and sometimes you appeared as an empty avatar in some lists, such as page admins, etc. still it's not about announcing lack of a specific communication channel (most of 'friends' don't care anyway), as I glanced at a few of them it's more about making a scene (facebook would be a good place for that. zing!).
- wtvanhest 15y ago
  This is a little off topic, but I wish there were an option to see just comments with no photos or names so I could try to guess who is saying what. I know, it doesn't have much utility, but it would be incredible.
  - dudurocha 15y ago
    If the facebook API gave us the comments in a post, we can make this an app.
wetbrain 15y ago
I think so. I'm not sure, but when I deleted mine a while back I got texts from friends wondering if I was okay, or dead, or mad at them. So there was at least some way they figured out I was gone. It may have just been that they couldn't find me anymore, but the texts came in almost immediately after clicking the delete button. It was kinda entertaining how so many people assumed that something major had to have happened for me to get rid of Facebook. Really it just started as a bet and then I never got back on.
edwardunknown 15y ago
No, but it's nice to mass-PM your friends before you do it so they won't think you unfriended them. I feel much better after deleting it, bottom line is it's just a piss poor means of communication and screws up more relationships than it creates.

by whyenot 15y ago

Does Facebook tell your "friends" that you have deleted your account when you leave? If not it seems like the sort of thing many people would want to announce somewhere.

joezydeco 15y ago

Look up "Burger King Whopper Sacrifice" for the answer to that question.

whyenot 15y ago
While interesting, I'm not really sure how "de-friending" 10 people in order to get a mediocre hamburger has any relation to what happens when someone deletes their account.
- k-mcgrady 15y ago
  From what I have seen it depends. I don't think it is ever announced that you leave. Sometimes you disappear from friend lists. Other times you remain but when someone tries to view your profile they get a message it doesn't exist. I think the reason they leave you in friends lists is because you can re-activate your account.

zalew 15y ago

no it doesn't, posts just disappear from the wall, you disappear from friends, although there were some bugs and sometimes you appeared as an empty avatar in some lists, such as page admins, etc. still it's not about announcing lack of a specific communication channel (most of 'friends' don't care anyway), as I glanced at a few of them it's more about making a scene (facebook would be a good place for that. zing!).

wtvanhest 15y ago
This is a little off topic, but I wish there were an option to see just comments with no photos or names so I could try to guess who is saying what. I know, it doesn't have much utility, but it would be incredible.
- dudurocha 15y ago
  If the facebook API gave us the comments in a post, we can make this an app.

wetbrain 15y ago

I think so. I'm not sure, but when I deleted mine a while back I got texts from friends wondering if I was okay, or dead, or mad at them. So there was at least some way they figured out I was gone. It may have just been that they couldn't find me anymore, but the texts came in almost immediately after clicking the delete button. It was kinda entertaining how so many people assumed that something major had to have happened for me to get rid of Facebook. Really it just started as a bet and then I never got back on.

edwardunknown 15y ago

No, but it's nice to mass-PM your friends before you do it so they won't think you unfriended them. I feel much better after deleting it, bottom line is it's just a piss poor means of communication and screws up more relationships than it creates.