Posted: 7/21/2016 6:35:40 PM EDT
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For a variety of reasons I am interested in deactivating my Facebook acct..I may reactivate it at some point in the future, so have a few questions:
1) What happens to my messages? I have some messages that have some rather important info in them (in the form of weblinks)...will they all go away forever even if I reactivate? Will I still be able to use messenger mobile app? (Id like to walk away entirely but too many people I need to keep in contact only use messenger anymore). 2) Photos....I've got lots of photos up there..if i ever decide to reactivate will they still be there? yeah..i googled all this...got conflicting answers... |
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Sounds like you should just keep your account lol. Not really an option for a few different reasons i dont want to get into, but will say it's largely driven by an overwhelming desire to "disappear" myself or at the least make myself less available. I just need to know how much to grab off there before I shut it down.. |
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so all your old messages were there? with all the conversations intact? Quoted:
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All your shit stays. I deactivated mine a month and a half ago. Had to log in for a message and immediately deactivated agin. Do it. You won't regret it. so all your old messages were there? with all the conversations intact? Just checked one of my old alternates that I shut down last year. Looks like everything is still there. |
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I deleted everything on my FB because they demanded a photo ID to prove my name. Said I seven days to prove my name or they would deactivate my account. That was almost a month ago. Don't miss it a bit.
My FB name was the the same as here and I had it since at least 2010. F-FB. |
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Not really an option for a few different reasons i dont want to get into, but will say it's largely driven by an overwhelming desire to "disappear" myself or at the least make myself less available. I just need to know how much to grab off there before I shut it down.. Quoted:
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Sounds like you should just keep your account lol. Not really an option for a few different reasons i dont want to get into, but will say it's largely driven by an overwhelming desire to "disappear" myself or at the least make myself less available. I just need to know how much to grab off there before I shut it down.. Hate to say it, but you and everyone else who have joined FB will never be completely free of them. In the have to agree to in order to use their service, you grant an irrevocable, life long license to track your online activity, even when you are not on Facebook. Your mistake was in the fact that like a lot of people you thought you enjoyed a customer/service provider relationship with FB. The thruth is that you are the PRODUCT they sell to someone else and the better they can paint a picture of who you are, the more valueable you are to their revenue stream. |
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Quoted: Hate to say it, but you and everyone else who have joined FB will never be completely free of them. In the have to agree to in order to use their service, you grant an irrevocable, life long license to track your online activity, even when you are not on Facebook. Your mistake was in the fact that like a lot of people you thought you enjoyed a customer/service provider relationship with FB. The thruth is that you are the PRODUCT they sell to someone else and the better they can paint a picture of who you are, the more valueable you are to their revenue stream. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Sounds like you should just keep your account lol. Not really an option for a few different reasons i dont want to get into, but will say it's largely driven by an overwhelming desire to "disappear" myself or at the least make myself less available. I just need to know how much to grab off there before I shut it down.. Hate to say it, but you and everyone else who have joined FB will never be completely free of them. In the have to agree to in order to use their service, you grant an irrevocable, life long license to track your online activity, even when you are not on Facebook. Your mistake was in the fact that like a lot of people you thought you enjoyed a customer/service provider relationship with FB. The thruth is that you are the PRODUCT they sell to someone else and the better they can paint a picture of who you are, the more valueable you are to their revenue stream. You think they don't have a profile on you even if you never had an account? How cute! Unless you have found and blocked their servers from every device you have, they have a profile on you. Think that "like us on facebook!" button is on the server of the site you were visiting? Nope! It's being used to track you anyway. Don't be so paranoid, or if you do, get the technical details right. |
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Don't ask random people on the internet, or like you said, you will get all kinds of different answers, check with Facebook itself:
https://www.facebook.com/help/125338004213029 https://www.facebook.com/help/359046244166395/ Quote: If you deactivate your account your profile won’t be visible to other people on Facebook and people won’t be able to search for you. Some information, such as messages you sent to friends, may still be visible to others. If you’d like to come back to Facebook anytime after you’ve deactivated your account, you can reactivate your account by logging in with your email and password. Your profile will be restored in its entirety (ex: friends, photos and interests). Remember that you'll need to have access to the login email address for your account to reactivate it. Quote 2: You may deactivate your account for any number of temporary reasons. This option gives you the flexibility to leave and come back whenever you want. If you deactivate your account: •People won’t be able to see the information on your Timeline on Facebook. •People on Facebook will not be able to search for you. •Some information, like messages you sent, may still be visible to others. •We save the information in your account (ex: friends, photos, interests), just in case you want to come back to Facebook at some point. If you choose to reactivate your account, the information on your profile will be there when you come back. If you permanently delete your account: •You will not be able to regain access to your account. •Some of the things you do on Facebook aren’t stored in your account. For example, a friend may still have messages from you even after you delete your account. That information remains after you delete your account. •It may take up to 90 days to delete all of the things you've posted, like your photos, status updates or other data stored in backup systems. While we are deleting this information, it is inaccessible to other people using Facebook. •Copies of some material (ex: log records) may remain in our database for technical reasons. When you delete your account, this material is disassociated from any personal identifiers. |
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lol. You think they don't have a profile on you even if you never had an account? How cute! Unless you have found and blocked their servers from every device you have, they have a profile on you. Think that "like us on facebook!" button is on the server of the site you were visiting? Nope! It's being used to track you anyway. Don't be so paranoid, or if you do, get the technical details right. Quoted:
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Sounds like you should just keep your account lol. Not really an option for a few different reasons i dont want to get into, but will say it's largely driven by an overwhelming desire to "disappear" myself or at the least make myself less available. I just need to know how much to grab off there before I shut it down.. Hate to say it, but you and everyone else who have joined FB will never be completely free of them. In the have to agree to in order to use their service, you grant an irrevocable, life long license to track your online activity, even when you are not on Facebook. Your mistake was in the fact that like a lot of people you thought you enjoyed a customer/service provider relationship with FB. The thruth is that you are the PRODUCT they sell to someone else and the better they can paint a picture of who you are, the more valueable you are to their revenue stream. You think they don't have a profile on you even if you never had an account? How cute! Unless you have found and blocked their servers from every device you have, they have a profile on you. Think that "like us on facebook!" button is on the server of the site you were visiting? Nope! It's being used to track you anyway. Don't be so paranoid, or if you do, get the technical details right. I have never once "liked" anything online. At first I thought it was cheesy, and after I realized what FB was about I stopped using them forever, for good. I used it a handful of times to try to be more involved with my sisters and I'm just as fucked as the OP is. I don't know what your issue is-I didn't mislead the man. Why don't you go find another stump to piss on? |
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I deleted everything on my FB because they demanded a photo ID to prove my name. Said I seven days to prove my name or they would deactivate my account. That was almost a month ago. Don't miss it a bit. My FB name was the the same as here and I had it since at least 2010. F-FB. Damn, do they randomly select people for ID verification? I've been on facebook since 2007, using the same fake name since I signed up. My primary use for facebook is to make/receive international calls through the private messaging system. |
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I just sold my old gas grill on Craigslist. The "My Account" page had every single posting I ever made made back to my first help wanted ad in January 2006. Even though that ad had a "deleted tag" it was still hanging out there in cyberspace.
If Craigslist keeps shit for 10 years you can be sure Facebook does too. By the way I stopped using Facebook a month ago. One of the best things I've done this year! |
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best of luck in your upcoming divorce. hate to tell you this but everything stays on the servers and lawyers can easily get a copy of it He might just be job hunting. My friend deactivated his for awhile when he went through the background investigation for a LE job. |
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Save all your photos off FB and screen shot all the messages you wish to keep.
I agree with those about getting off FB. I've been off for a month and I am enjoyed it. Wish I'd done it sooner. I logged back in a couple weeks later and it was the same bullshit people posting the same bullshit drama as well as the same advertising. I threw up in my mouth a little. |
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Good point. I use FB to stay up to date with the NRA, SAF, GCO, and tons of gun companies/groups/sites. I don't have any real life friends or family "friended" or listed on there, even now in retirement. Quoted:
I logged back in a couple weeks later and it was the same bullshit people posting the same bullshit drama as well as the same advertising. I threw up in my mouth a little. Why did you friend bullshit drama queens on there? |
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He might just be job hunting. My friend deactivated his for awhile when he went through the background investigation for a LE job. Quoted:
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best of luck in your upcoming divorce. hate to tell you this but everything stays on the servers and lawyers can easily get a copy of it He might just be job hunting. My friend deactivated his for awhile when he went through the background investigation for a LE job. Not a divorce, not job hunting...more than a few reasons.. 1) Much of what was coming across my feed was just downright vile and poisonous and was upsetting to me....this was shit from the left and the right. I'd pretty much have to unfriend everyone or unfollow 90% of the people on there, some people I'd known for decades. It was just easier and would cause less butthurt to just deactivate it. 2) Don't want to get into details on this, but there were nonpolitical things I was seeing that were upsetting to me as well. Again I'd have to unfriend/unfollow many people on there and it was just easier to rid my life of FB. 3) It was starting to get to a point where, because I was on it...people thought they should have easy access to me. I'm simply getting tired of the expectation that in this electronic age you are "required" to have immediate responses/availability to people. When I didn't respond to texts or calls right away, people started posting shit on my timeline like "yo, get my last 5 texts I sent in the last 5 min" (well, exaggeration there, but not by much). 4) I let too many doors into my past open up via FB. Like I said..after the election is over I may return...may not. At the moment a lot of those folks still have access to me via messenger, something I need to think about... I am frankly amazed at much of the vile, hate filled shit I saw posted by people I've known for years and in some cases decades....glad to be rid of them. |
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He might just be job hunting. My friend deactivated his for awhile when he went through the background investigation for a LE job. Quoted:
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best of luck in your upcoming divorce. hate to tell you this but everything stays on the servers and lawyers can easily get a copy of it He might just be job hunting. My friend deactivated his for awhile when he went through the background investigation for a LE job. Which is a bad idea... I'm sure it worked out for him, but it's not smart... |
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Hahaha... Lol. Yeah, doubt it.  Quoted:
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Deactivating is not the same as deleting the account. Deactivating just leaves all your stuff in limbo until you return. Delete the acct and poof it is all gone! Hahaha... Lol. Yeah, doubt it. |
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OP, your #4 is the reason I do not have a FB account, and never will. Maybe if I had an all-my-own business, but I'd still think long and hard about that shit before I did it. I associated with a few sketchy people in my youth, they don't need to have my location now. I moved away from NJ because of the people, lets face it, they elect the pols. |
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He might just be job hunting. My friend deactivated his for awhile when he went through the background investigation for a LE job. Quoted:
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best of luck in your upcoming divorce. hate to tell you this but everything stays on the servers and lawyers can easily get a copy of it He might just be job hunting. My friend deactivated his for awhile when he went through the background investigation for a LE job. Smart man. |
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Quoted: Damn, do they randomly select people for ID verification? I've been on facebook since 2007, using the same fake name since I signed up. My primary use for facebook is to make/receive international calls through the private messaging system. Quoted: Quoted: I deleted everything on my FB because they demanded a photo ID to prove my name. Said I seven days to prove my name or they would deactivate my account. That was almost a month ago. Don't miss it a bit. My FB name was the the same as here and I had it since at least 2010. F-FB. Damn, do they randomly select people for ID verification? I've been on facebook since 2007, using the same fake name since I signed up. My primary use for facebook is to make/receive international calls through the private messaging system. Someone didn't like what he said and reported him more than likely. |
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That shit never goes away once you have it. 
I deactivated mine over a year ago and it's still there and people actually post to it. I've had people say "I sent you a birthday greeting on your Facebook page." Really?  If people can still post on your facebook wall, you did not delete your account. |
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Deactivated 5 years ago. I don't even remember the password nor do I care any longer Same for me. Don't miss it except for seeing updates on the grandkids, my son and his wife are of the opinion that everyone is on facebook so they don't share much outside of there. |