Deleting Facebook
- Thread starter johnnyG
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- 17 Sep 2005
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Off topic but, I just committed to deleting my facebook account. It says that it will be permanently deleted in one month's time. When I logged back in to check, I had no access to my account whatsoever. However, I did have the option to cancel my decision. That was all I could do. Good riddance, I say.
- 21 May 2003
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I live on Facebook. Friends from JREF that vanished now keep in touch on Facebook. There are pages there for military info , law enforcement , firearm info , USA & Maine government updates and family members and old high school friends & groups are there. I "borrow" most of my avatars there from T-shirt ads and AI picture sites. Facebook has me down as a "make my life there miserable" member with constant bans and attacks over the years , but I still hang in there. I use it as a type of "podcast" for a conservative group , reposting memes and jokes about liberals. Since I'm more or less homebound these days with health issues , it helps the time go by.
- 6 Mar 2003
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Did something recent happen to cause you to pull the trigger? FB is my most used social media app. Mainly to keep an eye on local happenings and to keep in touch with some friends/family.
- 14 Mar 2002
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Same here! I keep it to stay in touch with friends and family who believe Facebook is the internet. The algorithm serves me precisely what gets me hooked: Japanese culture, doggie sob stories, cycling in Japan, and car crash dashboard videos. 
I have been struggling to regain access to our JREF Facebook page, which I can no longer maintain. If anyone has any ideas or connections, please let me know.
I have been struggling to regain access to our JREF Facebook page, which I can no longer maintain. If anyone has any ideas or connections, please let me know.
- 17 Sep 2005
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I rarely log into Facebook, so it's a very small part of my life. I've even tinkered with the idea of deleting my account for several years. The impetus for actually getting rid of it now was the recent news about the huge password leak. See link below. I decided that it just wasn't worth the hassle of thinking about account security for an account I don't even really use anyway.
apnews.com
Billions of login credentials have been leaked online, Cybernews researchers say
Researchers at cybersecurity outlet Cybernews say that billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving cybercriminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day.
apnews.com
AP News said:
- 12 Oct 2013
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I rarely post on it, but I look at it almost daily. It used to be a staple of my life way back in the late 00s. Everybody was updating things, and finding long-lost friends, stalking old lovers, playing Mafia and Farmville, etc... Then Facebook started trying to do too many things, I felt. Too many ads and "tailored" content, and over time it stopped being the "go to" destination for me. I'm a bit nervous about deleting it, because I would lose easy access to a lot of people from my past. I'm kind of losing interest in LinkedIn. Now that I'm retired, LinkedIn feels like a dead end for me (but I casually browse it daily as well).
- 6 Mar 2003
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This makes the experience much worse for me because I normally use FB to look at posts from groups I'm in. There's one "friend" who is constantly posting vomit like this on a daily basis. So that link gives me a long list of his posts (which I don't see in my normal feed because he's muted).Use this link to avoid the crap that Meta thinks you should see. It only shows posts from friends.
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- 26 Sep 2015
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Just delete the knucklehead. Admittedly, my feed isn't that much better, as about 80% of the posts on it are from about three people (whose views on US's descent into fascism and the situation in Gaza I agree with, but they do go on).
- 6 Mar 2003
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I would but he's a distant relative and I don't want to cut the cord.
- 14 Mar 2002
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My blood pressure has returned to healthy parameters once I eliminated all politics from my FB feed and X accounts. I only follow Bernie Sanders, enjoying his voice of reason, and my sister-in-law, who's a political high-flyer in my home country. 
- 2 Jul 2010
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I only recently found out about this, myself. My entire feed was "Recommended for you" with a light dusting of friends and followed groups. But 90% of my feed felt like that one aunt who heard you're into games and then sent you a crate full of old Monopoly, Ludo, and Tic-tac-toe games. Close but not reallyUse this link to avoid the crap that Meta thinks you should see. It only shows posts from friends.
If you block him on FB rather than mute, you can still message on Messenger etc. but he won't show up in your feed - that's what I did to some of my racist family members. None the wiser and I don't get their vitriol shoved down my throat every time I need to check events and the like from the rest of my family.
- 17 Sep 2005
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I agree that Facebook is nice for keeping links to past friends and acquaintances. There will be some connections that I will truly miss having, but I haven't been in contact with them for years. I think about my parents' generation, and they were quite healthy moving on from the past. I figure it's a mirror to hold myself to.
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- 15 Mar 2025
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I stopped using FB after Molly Russell took her own life after viewing content regarding suicide. During the inquest on her death, the coroner found that Meta was culpable in her death, but the mealy-mouthed representative from Meta made excuse after excuse for this type of content. I felt I didn't want to contribute my support to such a company and deleted my account. I did miss it at first, but this feeling soon passed and I'm glad I'm off it.
