This is actually not true, and has been verified by the Irish Data Commission (http://www.dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Review_Report

This is actually not true, and has been verified by the Irish Data Commission (http://www.dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Review_Report_21_Sept_2012.pdf http://www.dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Irelan... see Page 44) User accounts that are deleted have all associated user created content and data hard deleted after account is deleted. Additionally, a user deletes content (status updates, comments, etc..) that data is hard deleted.