I have a Facebook account, the app on my phone, but barely use it. And definitely not the messaging feature. I’m looking at deleting my account. What hoops do I need to jump through? What is left behind once i delete it?
You can delete your account in settings. I've never done it, but i'm pretty sure it does it after x days. (like a countdown)
it's also probably like any subscription cancel where you go through 50 "ARE U SURE"s
your profile will probably be gone, but i highly doubt your info will. TOS probably says your info is theirs now.
I believe there are two types of deletion. One is a "soft delete" that is really just a temporary account disablement and you can reactivate it at any time, thus they keep your data. There is a hard delete under the EU's "Right to be forgotten" laws, but I think that is only offered to people in the EU.
"That may be good for the world but it's not good for us"
Never forget what that dumb fuck wrote.
"They 'trust me', dumb fucks."
I'm looking more into the issue, but when it comes to 3rd parties and access to your facebook account/data, I think there's a lot of misconceptions on the difference between your responsibilities and facebook's responsibilities
Well that's the worst.
I have probably sent some photos I'd rather forget on messenger.
The problem for me is that there really isn't any alternative platform to connect with the people that I really need to be connected with; old school staff, friends, and generally networking. It's also where most if not ALL of my event planning takes place.
They're the only thing in the market that does what they do - and to their extent.
There's nothing I can do.
Same. I actually cancelled my data plan recently and use a cheap dumbphone for stuff that requires an actual phone call (30mins/30texts a month). I talk to my parents through facebook messenger and share stupid memes with my fiancee as well. She and I could probably switch to a new messaging service, but I have no other way to talk to my parents, really.
Honestly is anyone even surprised at this point? They've done so in the past, and they never changed.
But the reality is that facebook is so ingrained today its hard to remove. Friends, families, businesses rely on Facebook, and its too late to create a similar social networking app that does the same without stealing data. Unless something really fucked up happened or they are forcibly closed somehow.
I mean hell, Amazon, Google and all the big tech companies had been known for doing scummy shit, but its not stopping people from using their services which is so essential today, so what makes people think they'll stop using facebook? ( I do know some have, but a majority wouldn't)
How does that work? Do you physically have to be in the EU, or just an EU citizen?
if you need to use it, use it as a skeleton basic communications platform without uploading personal material and if people ask you, explain that your private messages are literally being shared to any company that wants them lmao.
When you delete there's soft delete which just deactivates everything and shoves it aside. You can still login and re-activate at anytime.
A Hard Deletion removes any references of you at all to other people's facebooks. They give you two weeks to turn around stop it. After those two weeks its gone for good access wise.
I don't think CA was a glitch I think it was just people being stupid with their own data and the researcher that CA bought their data from being unscrupulous. They just used the Graph API and requested all permissions, which users willingly gave because they're fucking idiots.
It doesn't help that Facebook at the time went out of its way to hide privacy settings and actively avoided explaining how the permissions worked.
can we throw fuckberg in a cell already?
I don't think what Facebook is doing is illegal in the US. People shouldn't use Facebook if they're not okay with their data being used/viewed this way.
Thing is, I don't think people know exactly what's going on
Why are they even allowing anyone to access messages in the first place? That is some bullshit.
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