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Re:Americans want to delete Instagram more than any other app by ncallaway on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:25PM (#35073580)
> Here’s the thing - if I want to ‘delete Facebook’ then I’ll do it - there’s no searching involved, I go to my home screen, long-press the ‘f’ icon and then choose the ‘trash’ option.

But you haven't deleted your Facebook account. You've removed the app from your phone.

If your goal was to delete your Facebook account you've failed.

Each company has a different way to actually achieve (or come as close as they allow you) removing your account from their service. It's completely reasonable that (even technologically literate people) would need to search for how to accomplish that goal for service X, since the services tend to be intentionally somewhat hidden.

Note the search term in the article isn't "Delete Instragram *app*", it was "Delete Instagram Account". Those are different things.

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Re:Americans want to delete Instagram more than any other app by vlunkr on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @04:46PM (#35075186)
It's been many years since I deleted my Facebook, but it was absolutely hidden like you describe. As far as I could tell there was no way to navigate directly to it from the site itself.
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