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The thing is that it actually is reversible. I just don't have the wherewithal to restore everyone's accounts every day. I will do it if they're super insistent

• RankingMember 3y ago
  Ideally, this would be a self-service kind of thing - retain the login for 48 hours and simply have a "reactivate account" button.
  • NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
    Some sites will automatically restore your account if you log into it again before the deletion completes. For example, Twitter. A while ago, I went through and deactivated a bunch of social media accounts. In fact I first did it for an organization I was a member of. And of course, I got to learn first-hand how crazy-difficult it is sometimes to figure out how to get off a social media site. And the truth is, you can't. Not really. You can play the "Deactivate Account" game with them, but they will still retain your data, plus anyone who ever scraped the site will have it all. So I attempted to deactivate my personal Twitter account, and I was fairly confident that I'd done it right. I never logged into it again, and I forgot about it for months, much longer than the deletion deadline. Well one day I found a link to it, and I followed that link and found my account live. Of course, none of the passwords worked, and I couldn't log in, nor recover the account, to deactivate it again. All I had was a lone TOTP code cycling in my Authenticator. I wrote to Twitter Support and I pleaded with them and said I could furnish the code and they were implacable. So my Twitter account is out there, frozen in time, unrecoverable and undeletable. It could happen to you. Be very careful when you create a Social Media account, because it'll follow you for the rest of eternity.