All the pleases in the world don't work.
All facebook offers its users is a "Deactivate" option. All of your information and history remains on their servers.
Why do I want to delete my facebook account you may ask. All of your pictures, notes, and interests belongs to them. Plus Facebook wants to eat our babies. Put simply, allowing facebook to do whatever it pleases with what is mine, is contradictory to my ideals. And perhaps 260 of my friends finding that I've removed myself from facebook will have greater impact than any other means of protest I have.
So I decided enough was enough, and I have begun a facebook cleanse. And it feels good.
At this point, like me, you might begin wondering what exactly one must do to have their account fully deleted. In my search for an answer I found this site. This guy was told by facebook he would have to manually delete all personal information. That means wall posts, notes, friends, pictures, interests, and all minifeed stories. I had 372 wall posts, which I deleted, one by one, because there's no other method of doing so. I think I hit delete about a thousand times by the time all was said and done.
I have emailed info@facebook.com and abuse@facebook.com and told them to delete my account. I've received no reply in the last 24 hours.
If I don't get a reply soon, I'll be resorting other means.
2 comments:
Hi Adan,
Glad you managed to get your account closed.
If you haven't already, could you join us and file a complaint on Truste about how difficult it was to actually close your account? Let's leave the internet a bit better than we found it. ;)
Hey, I just did this and it worked.. pretty simple.
http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
I even searched for myold name and its not there anymore.
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