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Re:Warning to Facebook app developers: mind reading skills ... by willarson on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @01:44PM (#36624)
It probably is a good idea to flag the account as inactive, and move it to separate table to keep the primary table clean. AFAIK FaceBook won't know that you're not removing the data completely, and this will allow you to restore the user if they want to, but not bloat your app with outdated entries.
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Re:Warning to Facebook app developers: mind reading skills ... by bls on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @02:39PM (#36640)
If I find your application useless then I don't want you to retain any information about me.

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Re:Warning to Facebook app developers: mind reading skills ... by steve on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @03:01PM (#36649)
welcome to the internet.
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Re:Warning to Facebook app developers: mind reading skills ... by amichail on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @03:33PM (#36665)
What if you accidentally uninstall my app and lose many hours of work?
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Re:Warning to Facebook app developers: mind reading skills ... by bls on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @07:47PM (#36748)
I understand what you mean. But, who is going to be entering valuable, unreproducible data into Facebook? If they re-install your app then they will probably be pretty happy to enter everything all over again.
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