[dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account

[Gary Kjos]

I have downloaded my FB data.  And looked it all over.  All pretty
boring stuff at least for other people.  I enjoyed looking at all my
pictures, posts and comments again. In a 115MB zip file. I keep
wondering what everybody else has to hide that they are all up in arms
about.  Who cares if I like a certain musician or a particular
restaurant or golf course?  I've always been pretty mindful with
keeping my security settings restrictive and have never used Facebook
apps or used FB to sign onto other websites etc as that seemed to be a
gaping hole.  I post pictures of my cats. I post pictures of food I
create.  I post stories about my golfing escapades.  I don't do
politics. I don't do religion.  I enjoy reading other peoples day in
the life stories and seeing pictures of my friends and families
animals and children and such.

And anyone who thinks that every single keystroke or mouse move you
make on EVERY website you visit isn't stored somewhere and analyzed is
naive.  Have a look at GOOGLE ANALYTICS and ADOBE ANALYTICS and the
like.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the light of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, you may be tempted to
> delete your Facebook account. FB certainly doesn't make it easy to delete
> your account. What follows is a concise recipe for achieving this. But
> first a little preamble, that may help you in future adventures.
>
> 1. Visit Facebook in your browser. Drop down the arrow at the top right of
> your screen and click *Settings*.
> 2. At the bottom of the General Account Settings, click *Download a copy of
> your Facebook data*.
> 3. Select *Start My Archive*. This may take a while. When the process has
> completed, you'll see a little pop-up notification. I suggest that you log
> out and inspect this file, if only to realize how lax you've been with your
> data.
> 5. Go to Delete My Account
> <https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account>. (This
> link will take you directly there; no need to login again.
>
>
> There, it's done. You're free at last. You will receive another message,
> saying that it could take up to 2 weeks for FB to physically remove your
> account. Under no circumstance revisit your account during this period,
> else you'll undo what you've just done.
>
> --
> Arthur
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Gary Kjos
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