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Will deleting Facebook actually remove your data though?

I’ve deleted mine a few times and then inevitably have had to use OAuth for some random site I’d auth’d to and lo-and-behold it works and all my data is back. Last time I went through that flow was maybe a year ago.

I always assumed they did some sort of paranoid delete or “anonymized” the data.



I never signed up for it and they probably have a profile on me simply because of the connections to people who have FB. That always creeped me out. Wonder if there is something in the GDPR legislation to get all the info they have on me and make them erase it.


I only originally signed up because I was single and dating and girls found it “creepy” I didnt have a Facebook.

Peer pressure, man.


You know it is almost impossible to get arranged married in India without a fb profile as average joes think i have something to hide when i do not have an active profile, i have not even deleted it completely yet i am apparently 'suspect' in the eyes of the urban society that overshares


Have the offline social networks (parents & relatives) really ceded screening to online social networks? Or they consider online profile as one of many signals in their offline matching algo?


Nope

The only way to win is not to play


Not even. They create shadow profiles for non-users.


I think it actually does delete your data now. They added that in response to upcoming GDPR regulations.




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