Deleting Your Facebook Account Now Wipes Out All Your Internal Data

Re:Deleting Your Facebook Account Now Wipes Out All Your Int... by 394549 on Monday July 02, 2018 @05:56PM (#17445688)

> I don't get the delete facebook movement. You can still use facebook without giving them all your data. Just.. don't give them your data!

That's not true, they get all kinds of data from other sources, including stuff from your friends that they may not have even realized they shared (such as your phone number when FB slurped their phone's contacts list).

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Re:Deleting Your Facebook Account Now Wipes Out All Your Int... by ljw1001 on Monday July 02, 2018 @06:10PM (#17445794)

and of course they track your movements across the web via their advertising platform and 'log-in-with-facebook' stuff.

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Re:Deleting Your Facebook Account Now Wipes Out All Your Int... by chrischen on Monday July 02, 2018 @06:12PM (#17445815)

Yes but the sign in stuff is within your control too. Simply logout or delete the cookies, and don't use sign in with facebook. Simply having a facebook account (even under a pseudonym), doesn't mean you have to start using login with facebook. I try to use Facebook in the most minimal way possible—I have an account and can message people, but I don't use it for anything that I don't need it for. I try to ensure I get more out of it than it does from me. I don't voluntarily fill out my profile with more information than necessary.

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