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A comment on Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?.

Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? by 0x4d464d48 on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:29PM (#18748783)
Deleted mine way back in 2010.

I'd been on it since high school in 2005 and treated it like the new version of MSN Messenger (oh 2002...). After a while it just got stale and it felt like I was pouring way too much of my personal data on to the platform. I think the turning point came after a friend of mine had committed suicide and his profile continued to live on the platform for at least a year. People kept posting to it and it just didn't sit well with me at all and I didn't like the idea of having an FB profile tombstone for myself either.

So, I nuked it. Haven't missed it for a second.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? by jogjayr on Sunday December 23, 2018 @10:40PM (#18750150)
Also deleted it in 2010. It's possible I've missed out on something without knowing but I'm happy with my life nevertheless.

If you only get updates about someone from their social media, you don't really know them. They're a stranger you know far too much about.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? by colsandurz on Sunday December 23, 2018 @06:00PM (#18748978)
Me too. Haven't missed it either.
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