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Re:What should you think about when using Facebook? by rak00n on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:40PM (#13563104)
I thought Facebook does delete your account. Do you have a source?
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Re:What should you think about when using Facebook? by westmeal on Saturday February 04, 2017 @06:55AM (#13566668)
Facebook can remove it from public view however any posts you make are the property of Facebook and so they continue to hold onto it.
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Re:What should you think about when using Facebook? by zeroer on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:40PM (#13565081)
My guess is that they don't delete anything due to regulatory and legal reasons.
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Re:What should you think about when using Facebook? by brokenmachine on Monday February 06, 2017 @12:45AM (#13576829)
What possible regulatory and legal reasons would there be that they can't delete your account?

It's not like it's financial information.

Any other service (eg Google) expressly says in it's TOS that they may delete your account whenever they feel like it.

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Re:What should you think about when using Facebook? by DashRattlesnake on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:56PM (#13565563)
My guess is they don't delete it because your data is valuable to them and they don't want to lose it, though they may use fake regulatory and legal excuses.
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