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Of course they don't want you to deactivate your account. It's their business to try to retain their members/customers, just like every other company in the wo

by LargeWu 17y ago

Of course they don't want you to deactivate your account. It's their business to try to retain their members/customers, just like every other company in the world. Now if they are pretending to deactivate your account but leaving it accessible to others, or other shenanigans, then we've something to talk about. But this? Big deal.

pc 17y ago
No-one's suggesting they're doing anything untoward. Just that what they're doing is interesting.
- ben 17y ago
  I refreshed the deactivate page, and it doesn't seem to be completely random, but it also isn't 100% the same every time. It seems to pick between the same 20 or so friends for me. Another thing that's interesting is that the deactivate option is exactly where it should be, rather than buried many levels deep in menus. I tried to remove my classmates.com account the other day, and it was a mess.
chris11 17y ago
Not only is it their business to retain customers, I think they are also trying to retain your personal data. I don't really know what their business plan will be, but I'm sure it won't involve normal users paying any money. So they have to make money off of me somehow, whether it is through targeted advertising or selling information to marketers. The current privacy policy allows them to give information from your profile to third parties as long as you cannot be personally identified. So while I'm not saying they will do anything unethical, an inactive account is probably worth a lot more than a deactivated account.
- hboon 17y ago
  They seem to already have a business plan that works pretty well.
- torpor 17y ago
  >Not only is it their business to retain customers, I think they are also trying to retain your personal data. No question about it: THEY KEEP YOUR DATA.
gaius 17y ago
Facebook doesn't care about individuals, it only cares about the "social graph". Once you're a node on the graph, then your data "belongs" to it (the graph). For example, if A knows C via B and B deletes their account, FB won't update A and C that they just know each other randomly.

by LargeWu 17y ago

pc 17y ago

No-one's suggesting they're doing anything untoward. Just that what they're doing is interesting.

ben 17y ago
I refreshed the deactivate page, and it doesn't seem to be completely random, but it also isn't 100% the same every time. It seems to pick between the same 20 or so friends for me. Another thing that's interesting is that the deactivate option is exactly where it should be, rather than buried many levels deep in menus. I tried to remove my classmates.com account the other day, and it was a mess.

chris11 17y ago

Not only is it their business to retain customers, I think they are also trying to retain your personal data. I don't really know what their business plan will be, but I'm sure it won't involve normal users paying any money. So they have to make money off of me somehow, whether it is through targeted advertising or selling information to marketers. The current privacy policy allows them to give information from your profile to third parties as long as you cannot be personally identified. So while I'm not saying they will do anything unethical, an inactive account is probably worth a lot more than a deactivated account.

hboon 17y ago
They seem to already have a business plan that works pretty well.
torpor 17y ago
>Not only is it their business to retain customers, I think they are also trying to retain your personal data. No question about it: THEY KEEP YOUR DATA.

gaius 17y ago

Facebook doesn't care about individuals, it only cares about the "social graph". Once you're a node on the graph, then your data "belongs" to it (the graph). For example, if A knows C via B and B deletes their account, FB won't update A and C that they just know each other randomly.