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just deleted my Facebook account... (which I've had for nearly 20 years... but this made me unreasonably angry).
by cozzyd 2y ago
just deleted my Facebook account... (which I've had for nearly 20 years... but this made me unreasonably angry).
- throwaway314155 2y agoGenocide in Myanmar didn't do the trick for ya? jk, of course it isn't fair to judge anyone for not leaving social media - it's actually quite valuable at times and going without it feels like missing out.
- righthand 2y agoNow every time you get the urge to log back in, switch to a neglected activity/interest to focus in on. In 30-60 days (I can’t remember the grace period) you’ll have a deeper understanding of this interest and be Facebook free.
- cynicalsecurity 2y agoI have some bad news for you, my friend. Your account has never been deleted and never will be. But thanks for finally quitting.
- zimpenfish 2y ago> Your account has never been deleted and never will be. Be interesting to see how they justify that under the GDPR regulations ("right to be forgotten") for European/UK users.
- ryandrake 2y agoSerious question: If you never log back in, what does it matter if you have an account or not? An account I never use doesn't appear to have any affect on me.
- tshaddox 2y agoThey’ve got: 1) your social connections as of your last usage of the account 2) your behavior profile from all across the web 3) potential ongoing new information about you based on the activity of your social connections
- pesus 2y ago> your social connections as of your last usage of the account Would deleting all posts/friends before deleting the account make a difference?
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoWouldn't it be better to add a bunch of junk information/connections than make it look like you're doing a cleanup?
- ryandrake 2y agoOK, so let's say I used a Facebook account 10 years ago (I didn't). And they know: Roughly (by IP geolocation) where I lived three homes ago, that I liked Fallout 3, and who three of my high school buddies were, none of whom do anything with me or live within 1000 miles of me. Now I no longer use Facebook or any of Meta's web sites. What can they do with this old-ass information (or even any accurate new information that they could magically derive from it), that would affect my life today?
- sophacles 2y agoThere are some social ramifications. I haven't used my Facebook account in years. Around the holidays I happened to run into an old college buddy and we caught up a bit. It was great, but there was a bit of awkwardness around how he had been in town a couple times and hit me up on facebook to get together, but I had never responded... It's all good between us now that that has been cleared up, however I sure do wish that he didn't think I was blowing him off and he had known to try another contact method. We missed some good times together. It's not huge in the grand scheme of things, but it's something to consider.
- tzs 2y agoWhat if you take a vacation to an EU country and while in that country submit a GDPR request to Facebook for data deletion? GDPR applies to data subjects who are "in the Union", regardless of residency or citizenship.
- spongebobstoes 2y agoThat would be illegal. They do delete accounts and data.
- LeafItAlone 2y agoThat must depend on the jurisdiction.
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoDon't forget to block them in something like NextDNS or they will continue to track your web usage and associate it with your old account.