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What if they accidentally deleted everything and don't have a backup?

• pestaa 12y ago
  People will start uploading their data to another walled garden.
• makaiookami 12y ago
  Not even possible. Once you delete something it stays on facebook for like weeks. They would have to have accidentally blown up everything with a bomb to have the problem you're talking about.
  • Gonzih 12y ago
    wat?
    • sbntn 12y ago
      The don't actually delete your posts, they mark them as deleted. If the government requests your data they get to see everything, even those posts you decided to delete.
      • Throwaway0812 12y ago
        I think the above post was referring to Facebook losing their data, by their database actually failing. That would mean the hidden deleted posts are also removed. Of course, they wouldn't have a single database or copy of the data, so this is irrelevant. As for not deleting data that you request to be deleted, that's normal practice. I know on every site I run, when someone clicks delete, it flags the content and it's hidden, but remains in the database. Deleted data is still valuable data, and it has a wide variety of uses.
      • _up 12y ago
        Also posts you didn't send. They register every keystroke too!
    • tls 12y ago
      that escalated quickly.
• ohwp 12y ago
  If you mean all accounts + data I think a lot of users will just register again and start over. If you mean all code it will be the end of Facebook. But ofcourse this is never going to happen.
• higherpurpose 12y ago
  People will have more privacy than before.
• justbaker 12y ago
  You really think that could happen..