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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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To: BenLurkin
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…better yet destroy all your digital devices and go back to good old analog, read more, work harder and mind your own business 😂🤣😂🤣
21 posted on 11/04/2021 6:14:59 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Peace to you and may God Bless you all)
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To: BenLurkin

I did delete my original “legit” FascistBook account about a year ago (got tired of going to FB “jail” multiple times).

But I did open a bogus account with my alter-ego just to keep a presence and to torment leftists with sound logic in various forums.


22 posted on 11/04/2021 6:15:54 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: BenLurkin
I CAN'T, I JUST CAN'T DO IT!!!

Because I never had one to begin with. 🙂

23 posted on 11/04/2021 6:22:08 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: NicoDon

My android will not allow me to delete - only disable.


24 posted on 11/04/2021 6:24:08 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: BenLurkin

I will keep my six Facebook accounts with fake names active — just so some dumbass advertisers keep paying a lot of money to advertise to people who don’t exist.


25 posted on 11/04/2021 6:27:44 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest, ‘til a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: real saxophonist
I deleted mine in 2012. I got the "we are going to keep your data for 2 weeks in case you change your mind" thing and they bugged me every day or so until the 2 weeks were up. A couple of years ago I got an emails inviting me back and lo and behold there was the little bit of data I had put up years before.

Nobody deletes anything, especially in Silicon Valley. If they say they will, they are lying.

26 posted on 11/04/2021 7:06:25 AM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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To: real saxophonist

I deactivated it once 12 years ago, I can do it again


27 posted on 11/04/2021 7:06:53 AM PDT by darkangel82
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To: BenLurkin

- never had an app
- account disused so long ago I don’t recall which email was used, and certainly one that’s dead/closed/inaccessible
- Similarly the machine last used for FB is long since gone, CPU trashed and was either a W98 or XP build
- IP and physical location changed an unknown number of times since then

So .. if I attempted to do a delete on the account, all I’d managed to do is allow them to synch it up with current emails, IPs, locations and machines — in short doxxing myself to them.


28 posted on 11/04/2021 7:24:35 AM PDT by No.6
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To: BenLurkin

lots of good information in that article. Thanks for posting.


29 posted on 11/04/2021 8:41:16 AM PDT by LibertyWoman (Guard with jealous attention the public Liberty. Patrick Henry)
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To: BenLurkin

1) To do what this article recommends I would have to log on and they won’t let me.
2) Why would I believe that they would delete everything? Facebook is run by evil liars.


30 posted on 11/04/2021 8:47:43 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: BenLurkin

I deleted my Facebook account one year ago on November 13th.

Not only have I not missed it I feel less anxious and more relaxed.

Which is consistent with what some of the whistleblowers are saying.


31 posted on 11/04/2021 9:51:40 AM PDT by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: BenLurkin

On my T-Mobile Samsung S10 I was able to uninstall Instagram but only disable Facebook. I bet they are still tracking.


32 posted on 11/04/2021 10:04:26 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: BenLurkin

Done! Like 4 or 5 yrs ago.


33 posted on 11/04/2021 10:08:22 AM PDT by Bullish (I'm only half kidding)
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To: BenLurkin
Right, nobody is using FaceBook and that POS Zuckerberg is one of the wealthiest persons who has ever lived.

It ain't the advertising. It is the data collection. His system has nearly perfected that business.

What are they doing with all of that data? Why is it so valuable?

It all makes me think on it. Why is the data worth money? This is to me a conundrum.

34 posted on 11/04/2021 10:22:40 AM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents.)
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To: BenLurkin

Morons love to keep sticking their fingers into a pretty orange-blue flame...


35 posted on 11/04/2021 12:40:16 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: V_TWIN

I’ve had 2 and the booster, but if they tell us we’re gonna need a 4th, then they can KMA…..


36 posted on 11/04/2021 12:52:36 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: telescope115

“...but if they tell us we’re gonna need a 4th...”

That’s just a matter of time in afraid my friend.

Unfortunately I suspect they want people on a covid shot hamster wheel.

I’m already hearing about trying to mandate flu shots as well.


37 posted on 11/04/2021 1:26:50 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: ArtDodger

Say WHAT! 😲 No facebook no job?


38 posted on 11/04/2021 5:42:24 PM PDT by Ikeon (One more question Alec, "did you check the gun before you pulled the trigger? " )
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