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Deletion actually works, and in pretty much the way you’d expect of any site. Graph relationships that touch users are required to be deletable. Once deleted, t
by evincarofautumn 13y ago
Deletion actually works, and in pretty much the way you’d expect of any site. Graph relationships that touch users are required to be deletable. Once deleted, there may be a record that an item existed and what type it had (post, comment, etc.) but the actual content is gone. Try downloading your data sometime from Account Settings—it’s fun to play around with.
- pbreit 13y agoI would not expect any site to actually delete much. Maybe deactivate or delink.
- evincarofautumn 13y agoDo you mean you don’t honestly expect a site to delete content, or do you mean you would honestly expect them to delete it, but cynically expect them to violate that expectation? The difference is important.
- xerophtye 13y agoI haven't played with the downloaded data yet, but I did this experiment once: 1) Copy Url of one of ur pics and save it somewhere. 2) Delete that Picture. (Now it doesn't show up in your photo album) 3) Access through saved link. When i tried it, the image was still accessible, so FB didn't REALLY delete it. They just told me they did. I dont think it would show up in downloaded data (i am pretty sure they are smart enough), but they still have it. So... Disclaimer: It maybe that for some optimization stuff, they use a deferred delete mechanism where they REALLY delete it from the system at a later date. But even if the saved link doesn't work, there's the possibility that they just changed the link.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoPictures can take weeks to be purged from their CDN, but when deleted, they are removed from the origin.