That implies that we do not have any legal standing to launch a lawsuit over a delete button that does nothing of the sort.
It's also a tool whose existence does not preclude deleting the account. I've designed it around my own use case, however: leaving FB as a social network (quite visibly so, I might add -- more visibly so than a simple deletion) while still remaining discoverable through it. On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 7:59 PM, Eric Miller <e...@squishymedia.com> wrote: > Don’t know what good it would do to remove the posts from the timeline. > Most likely the ‘display’ rule is a setting in the database and is yet > another useful datapoint for mining and analysis. I seriously doubt the > post itself disappears from Facebook’s systems. Maybe Facebook’s TOC says > they actually do delete the content when you do, but now that we’re seeing > how well Facebook honors those privacy commitments... > > Eric > > Eric Miller > PRINCIPAL → SQUISHYMEDIA > O: 503 488 5951 / M: 503 780 1847 / SQM.IO > > > On Mar 21, 2018, at 11:54 AM, John Haltiwanger < > john.haltiwan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The idea is to remove all the activity from your timeline (backing up > what it can along the way), but to keep the FB account open so that you can > have a single post: the details of how to contact you elsewhere. This > alleviates a primary anxiety of leaving: how to do so without becoming > impossible to find. > > > >
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