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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by ForHackernews on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:20PM (#19964738)
Ever is a very very long time indeed. Facebook will go out of business or get sold eventually and delete it all to save money or by accident.

See also: Myspace accidentally dumping everything pre-2015 https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/18/myspace-lost-12-years-mu...

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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by monocasa on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:42PM (#19964965)
For similar reasons, I doubt very much that they actually deleted everything they said they did. I know that they were backing up to tape and storing it at Iron Mountain years prior.
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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by dx034 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:33AM (#19968698)
But someone has to pay that bill. If Facebook ever fails, I doubt that someone would keep data centers full of information around without getting paid.
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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by monocasa on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:41AM (#19968945)
They would sell it with their other assets.
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