How To delete Facebook Account.

BrokenArrows · 26-03-2018 04:39PM

Permabear wrote: »

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In your mortgage example its a prime reason why you need to set the security settings correctly. Only people you want to see your stuff should be able to.

As for boasting about how much you drink etc and having publicly visible settings you might aswell be walking down the street shouting about your weekend, you cant then complain if someone treats you badly because of it.

Yes visitors should have everything possible looked at when entering a foreign country. If they have a public profile which shows they are a threat then yes they should be stopped at the border.

kunst nugget · 26-03-2018 04:58PM

I deactivated my account but I haven't deleted it yet. It's not out of security breach concerns - I'm just starting to hate people because of it. It's like this morning the missus was telling about a mutual friend living abroad who put up a post. She does that life coaching nonsense which is bad enough but now she's branching out into psychic healing and angel coaching or some such shíte and that knowledge kind of makes me hate her a little. I would have been blissfully ignorant of that piffle if it wasn't for facebook.

Guy:Incognito · 26-03-2018 05:07PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Let me re-phrase , what I meant was that it's one less way to steal data, yes I know the horse has bolted but if everyone took a stand and deleted their accounts it might make these companies realise that our data is important to us but as the pole is showing not many people care about it which is even more worrying.

What are people willing to sacrifice in order for to see all the "Likes" ? on their posts ?

So I deleted my account to say no Facebook, it's not acceptable and because there are far more important things in my life. Thinking about it the last few days , what does Facebook offer me ? nothing except the feeling I have to have it but thinking about it I lived far better without it for many years.

Why are you so determine that everyone else do what you did? You deleted Facebook, good for you. You could follow on not sharing with Facebook with not sharing with us .

26-03-2018 05:12PM

I have never, ever had a Facebook, MySpace, Bebo or any account which would have my real name out there.

Above all else, instinctively it seems like a myopic and silly move. I've seen people glued to it, waiting, often on edge, on messages hour after hour, and expending ridiculously valuable and limited personal energy on all sorts of self-inflicted dramas in their Facebook accounts. Have some kids and a busy job and you'll value your time and limited energy levels a hell of a lot more.

And privacy, protect that above all else because you'll want to retreat from the world sometimes, and you won't want opponents knowing more about you than you know about them, or would give to them.

kunst nugget · 26-03-2018 05:15PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Why are you so determine that everyone else do what you did? You deleted Facebook, good for you. You could follow on not sharing with Facebook with not sharing with us .

If everyone else deletes their facebook, he'll no longer suffer from FOMO…

26-03-2018 05:22PM

ELM327 wrote: »

Well facebook won't notice you've gone.
You or the hundreds like you, ye are like the size of a grain of salt in the ocean of facebook users.

I only joined facebook recently myself but I can't see what the problem is. You select who has access to your data, and don't approve anyone you don't trust. If you approve them then it's on you.

I must be missing something?

One thing you're definitely missing is Facebook when it was useful. Because you joined so late, all you're getting is one big rubbish dump of crap people find and share.

kunst nugget · 26-03-2018 05:26PM

Basil3 wrote: »

One thing you're definitely missing is Facebook when it was useful. Because you joined so late, all you're getting is one big rubbish dump of crap people find and share.

I'll be honest, I'm finding it harder and harder to see it as a useful tool these days.

monkeybutter · 26-03-2018 05:47PM

They are all tracking you. You think Facebook knows you are a bit of a racist/pervert, well imagine what google knows about you.

All that terrible stuff you searched for, especially while logged into gmail.

Like shooting fish in a barrel

Anyway, block the racist/pervert adverts they are pinpointing at you ya bunch of racists/perverts.

ADBLOCK Plus etc

That'll kill them off

26-03-2018 06:10PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Why are you so determine that everyone else do what you did? You deleted Facebook, good for you. You could follow on not sharing with Facebook with not sharing with us .

Why not.

Defunkd · 26-03-2018 06:25PM

What gets written on this site is owned by boards.ie. What is their approach to selling data? People give more qualitative information here and therefore more valuable for building a personalised file.

francis_begbie · 26-03-2018 06:37PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Even so, they won't get any further data , if everyone deleted their accounts it would show FB people do care but I suppose people are so addicted to social media that they really don't give a sh1t.

Lets see the poles who rather sell their souls than get rid of facebook lol.

Give a **** about what? Conspiracy theories peddled by Remoaners and clowns who can't get over Trump winning a democratic fair election? (albeit winning by the quirks of the electoral college beating the public vote, but winning nonetheless)

I'll pass, thanks.

PistolsAtDawn · 26-03-2018 07:02PM

ELM327 wrote: »

Absolutely could not care less.
This is a non issue.

How ignorant of fact can a person can be.

MOH · 26-03-2018 07:13PM

ELM327 wrote: »

Well facebook won't notice you've gone.
You or the hundreds like you, ye are like the size of a grain of salt in the ocean of facebook users.

I only joined facebook recently myself but I can't see what the problem is. You select who has access to your data, and don't approve anyone you don't trust. If you approve them then it's on you.

I must be missing something?

Two things.

Regardless of whether or not you approved it or even knew about it, if anyone on your friends list gave permission to an app, they could hoover up data on all their friends, including you. Of course FB will point to the fact that they've closed this 'loophole', but in reality they were making money out of selling access toy your data without you permission

Secondly even if you'd never been on Facebook in your life, but one of your friends had the Android app, it was harvesting not just contact details (so including your name and phone number) but also dates, times, and length of phone calls and texts they made to anyone, including you.

KERSPLAT! · 26-03-2018 07:17PM

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PistolsAtDawn · 26-03-2018 07:17PM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Facebook provides a valuable service via Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp.
The fee I pay for that service is by providing information. I know the information that is on my profile and dont care if its been stolen. There is nothing there im embarrassed about or feel is unsuitable for the public.

Any app which requires me to use Facebook as a login i make sure the only information the app receives is my name and email address.

I don't care about providing that information because it doesn't help them sell me anything in anyway.
I have never clicked on a advertisement on any website including google on purpose and i have never purchased a product via these advertisements.

Should Facebook be held accountable for data breaches. Yes of course.
Should the average person care. No they should not.

All large organisations collect information about you. Do you think Tesco gives you a loyalty card because they want to send you free money. No they give you this so they can track what you buy, where you buy it, when you buy it and they manipulate you into buying more "€10 off on spends of €50 or more", they manipulate you into buying higher profit items "20% off xxx brand". Thats just the way the world works.

Yea but Facebook and their ilk have the ability to modify the social evolution of the general populous as they see fit. Tesco might be able to convince you to buy a different brand of tea bags, big difference here. It's not about how any one person feels about their data it's all about inferring information from data contained within massive data sets and making decisions (taking action) based on said information.

Massive data sets are comprised of millions of individuals (average Joe's) information. If all us average Joe's occupy the same space (planet earth) and don't take responsibility for our data, our children and grandchildren etc... may never get to enjoy the freedoms both you and I take for granted each day.

I work in the area which the media and most likely you refer to as 'Artificial Intelligence', I know enough to know the above statement is fact. Unfortunately, and I don't mean to offend you in any way here, you simply have no idea what you are talking about. I am not trying to insinuate you are stupid or anything, i'm sure you know far more about whatever it is you work at/are interested in than I do, but in the context of this converstaion you are simply too far away from the coal face to know what the miners are really up to.

26-03-2018 07:26PM

+ their hell bent of ridding us of fake news, who decides what's fake and not ? posts get deleted all over facebook.

I'll decide thanks.

Next we won't have an internet it will be an inTRAnet like north Korea where we won't be able to access anything because it will all be censored.

PistolsAtDawn · 26-03-2018 07:27PM

Mark Acidic Wallpaper wrote: »

I don't even care enough to read up about it properly never mind go around being paranoid and deleting my facebook page.

You sir are an idiot

Skedaddle · 27-03-2018 12:30AM

I just downloaded my Facebook data to see what they actually had stored on me and what shocked me is they've a huge amount of details about calls I've made on my phone and my contacts, including people's full postal addresses.

The data captured about calls included things like how many times I'd called certain people, whether I'd bounced calls to voicemail, when I last communicated with them.

These aren't FB contacts. They're just random people I have in my phone directory.

I clearly was quite naive when I accepted the T&Cs as I did not know they were capturing that level of metadata.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!

Bye bye Facebook. Never using that site, or any of their associated services again.

_Dara_ · 27-03-2018 12:43AM

wes wrote: »

Deleted my account and instagram too (facebook owns them as well). Haven't gotten rid of whatsapp just yet, but will have to switch over to viber or something else.

Because they won’t do the same?

_Dara_ · 27-03-2018 12:46AM

kunst nugget wrote: »

I deactivated my account but I haven't deleted it yet. It's not out of security breach concerns - I'm just starting to hate people because of it. It's like this morning the missus was telling about a mutual friend living abroad who put up a post. She does that life coaching nonsense which is bad enough but now she's branching out into psychic healing and angel coaching or some such shíte and that knowledge kind of makes me hate her a little. I would have been blissfully ignorant of that piffle if it wasn't for facebook.

It’s so easy to avoid that. Don’t friend people you don’t like and if you absolutely have to because they’re related or whatever, just unfollow them so that they don’t show up in your newsfeed.

Skedaddle · 27-03-2018 12:46AM

This is exactly why we need proper data protection control. These companies clearly cannot be trusted. They should be properly regulated. It's not good enough.

27-03-2018 09:55AM

I guess we all shouldn't be so willing to trust others with our data because once it's out there anything can happen.

Facebook isn't worth any breech in data, too late, it's done but my stand is that I don't need Facebook and my life since I closed my account , more of my personal way of saying , "you don't care about my data I don't care about you, I don't need you but you need people a lot more than they need you." In other words we got the power , without FB members there'd be no Facebook, that goes for Google too. Another move I'm going to make, not signing into the browser, already got VPN etc.

Yesterday was somewhat more relaxed and I have no urge to check the phone every hour or two and reply to meaningless posts and get caught up in meaningless conversations, same goes for here too really though at least Boards.ie has not got a fraction of the traffic Facebook does.

In other words i got more time for much more important things in life, real life.

It's actually refreshing to be away from it all, like the shackles have been cut.

machiavellianme · 27-03-2018 10:03AM

Sidebaro wrote: »

I deleted my Facebook 6 months ago before it was cool to do so. I'm superior to all of you!

I never had one, so I'm superior to you :cool:

ELM327 · 27-03-2018 10:05AM

machiavellianme wrote: »

I never had one, so I'm superior to you :cool:

I only signed up a few weeks ago.
Am I superior or idiotic?

kunst nugget · 27-03-2018 10:09AM

_Dara_ wrote: »

It’s so easy to avoid that. Don’t friend people you don’t like and if you absolutely have to because they’re related or whatever, just unfollow them so that they don’t show up in your newsfeed.

The thing is I do like her, she's not someone I would have friended out of duty or some such and she's a person living abroad so facebook seems ideal in that scenario but she's also the perfect example of why I don't really need to know what's going on in people's lives. Tbh, since I've deactivated the account, I won't see any of her business launch which is something to be thankful for.

Vex Willems · 27-03-2018 10:12AM

Skedaddle wrote: »

The data captured about calls included things like how many times I'd called certain people, whether I'd bounced calls to voicemail, when I last communicated with them.

I've seen other people mention this, so I downloaded my data too to see what evil facebook had on me but found nothing unexpected, no call logs or anything not associated with Facebook.

27-03-2018 10:13AM

Don't deactivate the temptation is too great to reactivate it, delete, delete, delete !

27-03-2018 10:13AM

Vex Willems wrote: »

I've seen other people mention this, so I downloaded my data too to see what evil facebook had on me but found nothing unexpected, no call logs or anything not associated with Facebook.

lol of course not because all that's with 3rd party unauthorised companies

kunst nugget · 27-03-2018 10:26AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Don't deactivate the temptation is too great to reactivate it, delete, delete, delete !

I'll do what suits me, thanks very much. I've zero interest in reactivating my account but Messenger is the only place I have contacts for certain friends and I don't need my account activated to use it. I might only use Messenger once in a blue moon but it's still handy to have. WhatsApp is probably the only social media I use on a semi-regular basis and I check that maybe once every second day. I don't use Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat or any of that palaver.

Grateful Dread · 27-03-2018 10:29AM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

In your mortgage example its a prime reason why you need to set the security settings correctly. Only people you want to see your stuff should be able to..

This sentence proves you really haven't a clue what's being done with all your data.

For anyone that doesn't want to bury their head in the sand:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-confirms-it-records-call-history-stoking-privacy-furor-n860006

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/edward-snowden-facebook-is-a-surveillance-company-rebranded-as-social-media

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-cambridge-analytica-sandy-parakilas?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://www.thewrap.com/delete-facebook-twitter-cambridge-analytica/

This kind of mass data collection was not only allowed but encouraged by Facebook, which sought to keep developers building on its platform and provide companies with all the tools they need to influence and manipulate user behavior, the lawsuit said. That’s because Facebook is not a social media company; it is the largest data mining operation in existence.

How To delete Facebook Account.

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