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A comment on Ask HN: Is Facebook secretly keeping accounts open?.

Re:Ask HN: Is Facebook secretly keeping accounts open? by kachhalimbu on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @12:38AM (#5944232)
I deactivated and scheduled to delete it (the option which was so well hidden that time) my account 3 yrs ago and created a new one but with same email account earlier this year. FB magically showed me all my 190 friends in the friend suggestions. I guess they never deleted any of my information.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Facebook secretly keeping accounts open? by true_religion on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @06:24PM (#5949537)
Friendship is a symetric relationship.

It could be the data that X email is/was friends with Y is data relevant to Y and thus retained even if X deletes all of his/her info.

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