before I deleted my personal Fb profile, I made an empty account with a fake name to manage the business pages for work,
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If you are still on Facebook, now is the time to delete it
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They probably keep all of the user numbers consolidated under the "Facebook Family™" so WhatsApp having a stranglehold on the UK massively bloats their numbers they advertise to investors.
Now is the time for me as well. I never did for the connector plugin with other sites. Stupid reason, google will support me with that.
If you delete your account, facebook still knows who you are, still profiles you, still tracks you. You may no longer appear as John Hancock in search results but you're user ~11213421433243 in their system, you're already fingerprinted. The account you deleted is still reporting to the mothership, you need to kill their cookies, their partner cookies but your computer, your IP address, your browser profile, your battery still report enough information for facebook to make a calculated guess about who you are.
By all means delete your accounts, but you need to go a bit further to truly leave.
By all means delete your accounts, but you need to go a bit further to truly leave.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer/
Opt out on your terms
Facebook can track almost all your web activity and tie it to your Facebook identity. If that's too much for you, the Facebook Container extension isolates your identity into a separate container tab, making it harder for Facebook to track you on the web outside of Facebook.
Opt out on your terms
Facebook can track almost all your web activity and tie it to your Facebook identity. If that's too much for you, the Facebook Container extension isolates your identity into a separate container tab, making it harder for Facebook to track you on the web outside of Facebook.
Until there are better alternatives i stay while disagreeing with their policy. Already use telegram though for whatsapp alternative but still use both services for different purpose.
agreed on everything but what's app. It's to importan, like legitimately used daily for friends and work. Facelol and insta I've been off for ages
They finally released an activity manager that you can use to more easily delete or archive your old posts huh
Whatsapp makes money the same way any free website makes money.
You're the product, it's the service. You're being sold to advertisers.
I'm surprised there haven't been anti campaign movements against facebook where people would share sour experiences about whatever's being advertised on their feed as it comes ie You get an ad for Denny's so you make a Facebook post about the time they served your food half cooked. This would negate the value in advertising on Facebook, which could cause advertisers to pull out and destroy one of Facebook's primary revenue sources.
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Finally said "fuck it" and deactivated it after also turning off the integration with other apps. Nothing of value was lost and now I no longer have to listen to that pesky voice in the back of my head that tends to nag after a few months of inactivity to tell me "you haven't checked FB in a while" which I've been ignoring since January.
Will probably delete the damn thing in a few months but for now it's done and this gives me time to contact people via messenger to confirm phone numbers and email addresses. Feels good to be finally rid of it and the stupid social pressure to maintain a presence there for family.
Now to migrate off Gmail...
Will probably delete the damn thing in a few months but for now it's done and this gives me time to contact people via messenger to confirm phone numbers and email addresses. Feels good to be finally rid of it and the stupid social pressure to maintain a presence there for family.
Now to migrate off Gmail...
Not a option.
I use facebook to keep in touch with extended family who live outside the US and some inside the US as well but not in the area I live in. Along with people I've met throughout the years whether its at school, work, travel, etc.
That isnt a option for me.
I dont give out my email or phone number to people I associate in social media whether they are extended family or not.
I dont even know 99% of the phone numbers/emails of the people I have on FB (and they dont know mine either) and I rather keep it that way.
The only people I share that info with is my spouse and my parents.
Also the argument of sending photos through email....what? Who does that?
Edit: So tired of getting "Good Morning" photos from relatives on whatsapp that I cut all contact with them through whatsapp just for that reason.
I use facebook to keep in touch with extended family who live outside the US and some inside the US as well but not in the area I live in. Along with people I've met throughout the years whether its at school, work, travel, etc.
That isnt a option for me.
I dont give out my email or phone number to people I associate in social media whether they are extended family or not.
I dont even know 99% of the phone numbers/emails of the people I have on FB (and they dont know mine either) and I rather keep it that way.
The only people I share that info with is my spouse and my parents.
Also the argument of sending photos through email....what? Who does that?
Edit: So tired of getting "Good Morning" photos from relatives on whatsapp that I cut all contact with them through whatsapp just for that reason.
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Told everyone on Facebook I'm deleting my account in a couple days and to message me for contact info if you want to keep in touch.
Need to set up a fake account for my office since I help manage our page. Any best practices for this?
On my main account before I delete it, I'm going to delete all of it individually (all photos, activity, friends, etc) then randomize as much of it as possible. Change the name, friend request a thousand randos, like two thousand random pages, just to dirty up any data they retain.
Need to set up a fake account for my office since I help manage our page. Any best practices for this?
On my main account before I delete it, I'm going to delete all of it individually (all photos, activity, friends, etc) then randomize as much of it as possible. Change the name, friend request a thousand randos, like two thousand random pages, just to dirty up any data they retain.
Nah. I'd rather just annoy all my right wing followers and family all the latest news from the protests and watch them complain.
They're the ones that need to see it the most.
They're the ones that need to see it the most.
Facebook is a lot like how AOL was in the 1990s.
Like FB, AOL was extremely over valued because it wrestled itself into a position of being the gatekeeper & homepage of the entire internet. Remember when it was AOL Time Warner? Dial-up, magazines, movies. The ancient era...
And like when AOL fell from being the ISP of choice, it remained in a much smaller way for its one value - AIM - the chat app. And so deactivating Facebook was an easy decision; I'd hardly used it anymore and what I liked about it initially — its simplicity compared to the busy-ness of MySpace — had long been removed as a feature, many versions ago. Instead I'll just keep Facebook Messenger and I'll use it when I need to get in touch with my sister-in-law, for whatever reason. But there's no reason at all to scroll or use any other FB features. Why would you?
Like FB, AOL was extremely over valued because it wrestled itself into a position of being the gatekeeper & homepage of the entire internet. Remember when it was AOL Time Warner? Dial-up, magazines, movies. The ancient era...
And like when AOL fell from being the ISP of choice, it remained in a much smaller way for its one value - AIM - the chat app. And so deactivating Facebook was an easy decision; I'd hardly used it anymore and what I liked about it initially — its simplicity compared to the busy-ness of MySpace — had long been removed as a feature, many versions ago. Instead I'll just keep Facebook Messenger and I'll use it when I need to get in touch with my sister-in-law, for whatever reason. But there's no reason at all to scroll or use any other FB features. Why would you?
Giving people your phone number is not a valid replacement wtf op.
It's the non direct communication that is the value of Facebook and Instagram. You can keep up with people's lives without constantly harassing them with messages and photos just by opening the app, scrolling for a minute, looking at their stories. There's a reason it's so popular.
Not to mention staying in the loop of local businesses that communicate via their social media pages.
Plus I need WhatsApp for work. Like 100% required.
Sorry OP but I think I'm going to keep them.
It's the non direct communication that is the value of Facebook and Instagram. You can keep up with people's lives without constantly harassing them with messages and photos just by opening the app, scrolling for a minute, looking at their stories. There's a reason it's so popular.
Not to mention staying in the loop of local businesses that communicate via their social media pages.
Plus I need WhatsApp for work. Like 100% required.
Sorry OP but I think I'm going to keep them.
Deleting facebook over 6 years ago was the best decision I've made on the internet and getting rid of larger public internet spaces and social media has done nothing but good for my mental health.
Delete your Facebook. You can, and will, live better for it.
Delete your Facebook. You can, and will, live better for it.
my favorites are the one who say remove me if you don't believe blah blah blah.
How about you remove me cause I clearly am annoying you with all my Colin Kaepernick posts and will continue to do so.
Oh, cool. This was my primary concern about deleting my account. I want to reclaim what's mine before I give them the heave-ho.
My parents have unstable phones and I use Facebook messenger with them because it's a bit more consistent than their mobile networks. I generally need to keep in touch with them for my monthly infusions at the hospital. I also have friends and family to keep in touch with on there.
Deleted!!! Made sure to grab some friends numbers and have been chatting with folks I haven't talked to in ages.
its fun pissing them off. I can't get rid of facebook yet while everything is still going on. Because best part is..........most of my family will swarm them telling them off too. So its just me baiting and waiting................they deserve it though.
why would you support facebook in 2020
because talking to people is hard? talking to people has been hard since talking was invented.
because talking to people is hard? talking to people has been hard since talking was invented.
i love the idea that these apps have actually made communicating with people easier or more convenient. like bitch send an e-mail if you care that much.
I had two accounts, and I haven't used them in years. Can't remember what password I used, and I tried to change the password, but it then takes me through a "security check" and wants me to upload a photo id.
Fuck that.
Fuck that.
Wish I could but I can't.
I have too many international friends and the only ways to remain in contact are WhatsApp and Facebook
I have too many international friends and the only ways to remain in contact are WhatsApp and Facebook
Yeah I'm not gonna do that. It's irreplaceable at this point for me. I participate too much in too many things.
I already have this, but I don't notice any difference? Is that normal?
Perhaps someone with skills can build something with similar function without all the baggage?
How could anybody still be using Facebook and this is what kills it for them? The fucking site asks you for ID.
So my dad asked me today to help him delete his Facebook because of all the terrible things the company and it's founder have done but he can't figure out how to permanently delete it. The last time he tried he said he still got notifications. I've never had a social media account so I definitely don't know the ends and outs of it. Is there a good reference or YouTube video that clearly shows you how to actually delete it?
There's Facebook's own instructions.
Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account | Facebook Help Center
You can request to have your Facebook account permanently deleted.
www.facebook.com
It could be that last time, he deactivated his Facebook account but not his Messenger account (which is an option). They try to steer users to only temporarily disable their accounts. They also don't delete accounts right away, so if you accidentally log back in, the account reactivates.
i added a site blocker extension to my browser when i deleted my account -- sometimes you find yourself typing in "fa" *enter* without thinking when you're killing time on the internet, and i didn't want to accidentally log back in. it helps with your resolve too if you somehow find yourself missing just vacantly scrolling and feeling worse and worse