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Don't just deactivate your Facebook account. Delete it permanently
CNET ^ | Jason Cipriani, Katie Teague

Posted on 11/04/2021 5:31:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin

It's important to note that there's a difference between deleting your Facebook account and deactivating it. Deactivating your Facebook account temporarily freezes it... But that does nothing to prevent the company from tracking your online activity.

1. Delete the Facebook app from your phone and tablet

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To fully separate from Facebook, deleting your account is the only answer. Deleting it also severs ties to Facebook Messenger, the platform's chat app. (If you want to also get rid of Instagram and WhatsApp, which are Facebook properties, you'll have to do that separately.)

3. Disconnect your Facebook account from other apps and logins

Third-party developers such as Spotify and DoorDash have long offered the option of using your Facebook account as a way to sign up and log in to their services. It's convenient because it keeps you from having to remember yet another password. That is, until you don't have a Facebook account anymore. 4. Finally, it's time to delete your Facebook account

Facebook will give you a list of tasks and things to consider before deleting your account. For example, you'll be advised to download all of your information, or if you're the sole admin of a Facebook Page, you'll be asked to grant another account admin privileges. Otherwise, the page will be deleted alongside your account.

Click Delete Account, enter your password and click Continue. Finally, click Delete Account again and you're done.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: deactivate; delete; facebook; internet; no; privacy; socialmedia; surveillance; virtuesignalling
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1 posted on 11/04/2021 5:31:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Never got on. So I’m good?


2 posted on 11/04/2021 5:32:27 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: BenLurkin
Did. 9 years ago.
3 posted on 11/04/2021 5:34:39 AM PDT by real saxophonist (I'll procrastinate later.)
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To: BenLurkin

Facebook app, Instigram, FB messaging and Whatsapp.
All owned by FB and none are secure.


4 posted on 11/04/2021 5:36:40 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: BenLurkin

Bookmark


5 posted on 11/04/2021 5:43:22 AM PDT by 4everontheRight (You were warned)
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To: BenLurkin

i always disable the facebook services on my android devices. Even if you’re not logged into it your presence is known. Disabling the services ostensibly severs that possibility.

Who knows if its still running in the background, though? I am not an android hacker and don’t jailbreak my phones. I don’t want a $1000 device, or even a $500 device suddenly not working because i have been fiddling with things...


6 posted on 11/04/2021 5:44:29 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: Zathras
I know a couple of conservatives who still use Facebook - they tell me, "It's how I stay in touch with people; email is too inconvenient!"

Guess that could go on America's headstone:

FREEDOM WAS TOO INCONVENIENT

7 posted on 11/04/2021 5:44:47 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Shoeless Joe" played for the White Sox; "Clueless Joe" lives in the White House...)
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To: BenLurkin

later


8 posted on 11/04/2021 5:44:49 AM PDT by lysie (Labeling Trump supporters domestic terrorists is like calling trick or treaters robbers.They are NOT)
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To: HighSierra5

“Never got on. So I’m good?”

To a point, but a lot of websites have hidden 3rd party Facebook tracking scripts. These track you anyhow without your knowledge, permission, or ever being part of Facebook. Only way to stop this is with a script blocker.


9 posted on 11/04/2021 5:50:06 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BenLurkin

Before I deleted my account, in 2017, I deleted every post I ever made, which wasn’t many.............🤑


10 posted on 11/04/2021 5:50:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: real saxophonist

I got rid of mine when Obama was put in office. Went through and individually deleted every post. Took hours.
Haven’t missed it, at all.
I hear that new hires at today’s companies are required to give the company full access to their accounts and if you don’t have a FB account, they don’t hire you.


11 posted on 11/04/2021 5:51:46 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: BenLurkin

Never had a facebook account.....Instagram or Twitter either for that matter and yet the sun comes up every day and my life goes on....what a concept eh?

I’m more proud of that fact today as ever.


12 posted on 11/04/2021 5:54:04 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: BenLurkin

You can download your files first too. All those pics you ever uploaded. I had such little activity that I was able to delete every post I ever made and all the pics, at least as far as I could see. I imagine they keep a copy of everything though.


13 posted on 11/04/2021 5:57:17 AM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: V_TWIN

Never had it. Never will.


14 posted on 11/04/2021 5:58:46 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: BenLurkin; a fool in paradise; acapesket; Baynative; beef; BullDog108; Califreak; cgbg; ...
As the Eagles sang in Hotel California: Best to not get involved with the nightmare called Facebook to start with.
15 posted on 11/04/2021 5:59:23 AM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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To: BenLurkin; a fool in paradise; acapesket; Baynative; beef; BullDog108; Califreak; cgbg; ...
This is the Farcebook Is Evil ping list.


h/t SC DOC

Facebook is a perfect example of socialism:
You get it for free but the quality sucks.
You have no say in how it works.
The guy who runs it gets rich.
There's no real competition.
You have no privacy.
And if you say one thing they don't like
they'll shut you up.

If you'd like to be on or off this list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

16 posted on 11/04/2021 5:59:35 AM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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To: telescope115

“Never had it. Never will.”

Yep. And same same for covid shots.


17 posted on 11/04/2021 6:00:58 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: BenLurkin

Wife has a Facebook account but she never post anything or replies to anyone and only see’s what the kids and grand kids are doing.

FB has been deleted on both phones but you can’t get rid of google on an android phone. All google apps are disabled as well as you tube, anything voice activated and all permissions are limited. Location is disabled except the weather apps and maps and they’re only allowed when the app is in use.

Computer cache and cookies are deleted after every exit from Firefox and Local and Local/Temp files are also deleted daily. No camera on the computer, voice commands have been disabled and microphone drivers disabled and cortana is disabled as well.

Anything WIN 10 app or privacy wise is disabled or removed.

TV’s have had all voice commands disabled (none have a camera) and we’ve opted out of the ACR crap.

Regardless I’m sure there’s a things that I’ve missed. Not paranoid just sick of all the intrusion.


18 posted on 11/04/2021 6:04:49 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: BenLurkin

Bookmark


19 posted on 11/04/2021 6:08:42 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. NEVER be a peaceful quiet slave in a new socialist America.)
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To: BenLurkin
Should we delete our FB account even if FB recently changed their name to

M ust
E lect
T rump
A gain ?

LOL

20 posted on 11/04/2021 6:14:01 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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