Technology

At the router. That is where I delete it.

at least it was. my family had posted photos and tagged me in them. At that point I hadn't had a FB for almost a decade. this was years ago now, but I doubt they changed it.

Unfortunately it has been demonstrated through whitehat research that simply deleting your old account is relatively useless. They have shadow profiles of users based on probabilistic data. For example, say your spouse with her decades old account keeps making posts about what you ate on date night, your trip to Cabo, or worse yet she posts a bunch of pictures of her, you, and the kids. Facebook makes a shell profile based on this conception of "you" and begins aggregating all the info it can about this person.

More over, every time an acquaintance of yours gives their FB app permissions to access their contacts (to suggest Friends or whatever) if your contact info is on the list, FB now has your real name, your email, your mobile phone number, etc. You never opted in, but it doesnt matter - other people are opting you into FB data collection all the time, unless you literally don't tell anyone your real phone number or email address.

How to delete is not the problem. That's the trivial part. In fact, you don't even need to delete your account. Just stop using it and it's practically the same effect.

The problem is how to get your friends and acquintances out of there. Lots of things are there and only there. Like for instance, it's my jujitsu club's main place of information. If I quit FB, I will no longer know what's happening there.

Gizmodo's post on this has the most honest title: A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks

Unfortunately, I'm keeping mine to make a pipeline from there to actual content on Mastodon or BlueSky. But I basically put a URL in my bio and push a photo once a week.

Didn't work; deleted my account but Facebook still exists. Bad guide 0/10

Sadly I cant delete WhatsApp because eveyone in my country uses it :c

Real question is, how can I uninstall Zuckerberg...

If it wasn’t for Marketplace, I would be off Facebook entirely.

But I am not on threads at all, and only get punted over to Instagram with reels that appear on my Facebook account.

You need to block all their domains/IP ranges too otherwise they’re still profiting from profiling you across apps and websites.

I deleted my account back in 2013. One thing I didn't really think about was that someone else could spin up an account and pretend to be you after you leave. When I found out that someone did this I don't think I did anything about it, I just looked at the account, cringed, and closed the window and never went back.

Is it good to know that there ís still person in this world doesn't rely much more on social media even though that is the biggest mainstream in this world.

Deleted everything Meta related in 2022. I have no regrets. Zuck can Suck it

Supreme Commanders of a few nations have that proverbial red button to delete anything (customizable selection of what to delete, too). You just have to get in contact with one of them, call them for a cup of coffee. Ask them to rid you of that problem.

Remember to hit the gym and lawyer up next.

I only use it for messenger. And only then because it still has chat bubbles. There are many better messengers. But they don't have chat bubbles that draw over other apps.

I haven't posted on FB in years.

Where's the article on how to profit off of racist idiots on Facebook?

Pffft! This is soooo 2015.

Do it! Delete it.