Serious 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.

Serious 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. By way of example, the Catholic Church holds enormous political power in the US by virtue of its claim to over 50 million members. When the Church speaks up, politicians sit up and take notes. Less than 25% of those members actually attend church weekly, but the others are still counted as "Catholics" because you have to go well out of your way to have yourself formally removed from the church membership rolls. [1] As of 2010 there is apparently no way to do that voluntarily at all. Facebook works the same way. Once you're in, your account is never truly closed or deleted AFAIK. (I've tried.) We may debate MAU versus other metrics for assessing user activity, but all the politicians see is "We have 3 billion accounts worldwide, over 250 million of them in the US." Like the church, Facebook is able to wield political power in your name even if you signed up many years ago and now disagree vehemently with everything they stand for. It seems that the only guaranteed way to avoid this sorry situation, short of changing your name or faking your death, is to refrain from signing up in the first place. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_act_of_defection_from_the_Catholic_Church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_act_of_defection_from_t...