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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by viiralvx on Sunday November 20, 2016 @01:05PM (#13000140)
I have a legitimate question. If you delete your Facebook account, how does that affect your OAuth logins on other websites? I've been tempted to delete my Facebook account but there are unknowns about how that would play out in the social login space, so I'd be interested in your thoughts.
Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by lucb1e on Sunday November 20, 2016 @01:46PM (#13000364)
I don't use OAuth ever, because:

advantages:

1. log in once; be logged in everywhere

2. no password manager required because you have only one (or maybe a few) logins

disadvantages (I'll just keep numbering to give it unique IDs):

3. if the provider is down, you can't login

4. the provider knows when and where you log in

5. if you decide to delete your account at the provider, you can't log in anymore

6. if the provider decides to delete your account because, say, you bought a fake Nexus (or what was the story recently?) or because you forgot to pay or just because there is a glitch on their end, you've got a problem

7. if your account gets hacked, everything got hacked.

I just don't see how that tiny bit of convenience weighs up to all the issues of having a SPOF whose trustworthiness is questionable to begin with.

Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by clintonb on Sunday November 20, 2016 @01:27PM (#13000256)
I can only speak for my own site. We don't receive any notifications from third-parties when accounts are closed. If you don't login again, you can use password reset with your email address to get a password for your account. Which email address depends on the primary address set at Facebook.
Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by hashtagMERKY on Sunday November 20, 2016 @05:12PM (#13001589)
For some reason I never used FB for other accounts - I always used Twitter or Google, so it wasn't a problem for me. I guess if I deleted my Google account a lot of things (GitHub, Freenom, Soundcloud) would go down too.