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> because you can't actually delete it You can. At least, this seemed to work effectively for me: http://deletefacebook.com/ http://deletefacebook.com/

tokenizerrr 12y ago
It's hidden from public view. They hold on to all of your data, which the page you linked says.
- thathonkey 12y ago
  So the steps would be: 1) Obfuscate the private view by liking everything. This raises the signal-to-noise ratio exponentially and surely makes it hard(er) for "them" to characterize you. The longer you do this for, the more effective this strategy will be I would think. 2) Delete from public view.
  - teddyh 12y ago
    Step 0: Do not join Facebook.
  - icebraining 12y ago
    Notice how Facebook noticed what she was doing and got a PR person to talk to her. They have algorithms to detect abnormal behavior like that and flag it. If you want to have any real effect, you'd need to provide a fake but plausible signal, not noise.
  - ksk 12y ago
    I'm sure they have a history of all your actions. They could easily revert your profile to a time before you went to town liking irrelevant stuff.
- gcr 12y ago
  Hey, append-only databases are awesome, but hard to delete from!
- DanBC 12y ago
  > They hold on to all of your data, which the page you linked says. Be interesting to see if any of the Facebook privacy lawsuits help Facebook to delete that data when they're asked to.
- cottonseed 12y ago
  That's not what the page or the Facebook Data Usage Policy says. Quoting from the page: > In theory, deleting your account immediately removes all Facebook data related to you. In reality it's more complicated, taking about a month. > Even data tagged for deletion can still take 90 days to be deleted. > "‘It typically takes about one month to delete an account, but some information may remain in backup copies and logs for up to 90 days.’" — Facebook Data Use Policy. > Allegations of complicity with US National Security Agency surveillance suggest that your data may never truly be deleted. the last of which links to the Glenn Greenwald PRISM article: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-... The article says the NSA has "direct access" to Facebook systems, but doesn't mention Facebook deletion policy. If the NSA has a copy of your data, we can't really expect Facebook to be responsible for deleting it. By my reading of the page, deleting your Facebook account functionally deletes your account immediately (that is, you no longer appear on Facebook) and after the two-week deactivation period, if you don't reactive your account, your data will be deleted within 90 days. Of course, if any of this is true, I have no idea.

tokenizerrr 12y ago

It's hidden from public view. They hold on to all of your data, which the page you linked says.

thathonkey 12y ago
So the steps would be: 1) Obfuscate the private view by liking everything. This raises the signal-to-noise ratio exponentially and surely makes it hard(er) for "them" to characterize you. The longer you do this for, the more effective this strategy will be I would think. 2) Delete from public view.
- teddyh 12y ago
  Step 0: Do not join Facebook.
- icebraining 12y ago
  Notice how Facebook noticed what she was doing and got a PR person to talk to her. They have algorithms to detect abnormal behavior like that and flag it. If you want to have any real effect, you'd need to provide a fake but plausible signal, not noise.
- ksk 12y ago
  I'm sure they have a history of all your actions. They could easily revert your profile to a time before you went to town liking irrelevant stuff.
gcr 12y ago
Hey, append-only databases are awesome, but hard to delete from!
DanBC 12y ago
> They hold on to all of your data, which the page you linked says. Be interesting to see if any of the Facebook privacy lawsuits help Facebook to delete that data when they're asked to.
cottonseed 12y ago
That's not what the page or the Facebook Data Usage Policy says. Quoting from the page: > In theory, deleting your account immediately removes all Facebook data related to you. In reality it's more complicated, taking about a month. > Even data tagged for deletion can still take 90 days to be deleted. > "‘It typically takes about one month to delete an account, but some information may remain in backup copies and logs for up to 90 days.’" — Facebook Data Use Policy. > Allegations of complicity with US National Security Agency surveillance suggest that your data may never truly be deleted. the last of which links to the Glenn Greenwald PRISM article: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-... The article says the NSA has "direct access" to Facebook systems, but doesn't mention Facebook deletion policy. If the NSA has a copy of your data, we can't really expect Facebook to be responsible for deleting it. By my reading of the page, deleting your Facebook account functionally deletes your account immediately (that is, you no longer appear on Facebook) and after the two-week deactivation period, if you don't reactive your account, your data will be deleted within 90 days. Of course, if any of this is true, I have no idea.