Is the process different from it was in 2015?
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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I deleted my FB account years and years ago, and AFAIK it has never broken into my house and forced me to look at it. But of course Bonespurs takes office pretty soon so I guess nothing is certain.
Become a master hacker who can access their servers? Probably super illegal, though.
Oh hey, good reminder. The one upside to the fact that my FB account continually revived itself while I was using my Quest 2 is that now I can delete my account (for the last time, I hope) as part of a widespread protest instead of a one-off annoyance.
I did a year ago over their censorship. I don’t miss it.
Is it good to know that there ís still person in this world doesn't rely much more on social media even though that is the biggest mainstream in this world.
If it wasn’t for Marketplace, I would be off Facebook entirely.
But I am not on threads at all, and only get punted over to Instagram with reels that appear on my Facebook account.
Supreme Commanders of a few nations have that proverbial red button to delete anything (customizable selection of what to delete, too). You just have to get in contact with one of them, call them for a cup of coffee. Ask them to rid you of that problem.
I deleted mine many years ago, 10/10 would recommend!
Anyone that still has these accounts hasn’t been paying attention the last few years and is part of the problem. I doubt many CURRENT Fb, Ig, Threads users will change their habits.
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I only use it for messenger. And only then because it still has chat bubbles. There are many better messengers. But they don't have chat bubbles that draw over other apps.
I haven't posted on FB in years.
Signal has chat bubbles
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Tldr: u cant
TL;DR Only if you misunderstand the intent of the word "delete".
In the sense of getting rid of the sites themselves, sure, that'll never happen.
And in the sense that once you're known to them you'll never be forgotten, at least not without a massive lawsuit that you've little chance of winning, yes.
But you can ask Meta to delete your account(s) and everything visibly associated with you to the point that you no longer have a presence on any of their sites, and that's what this article is about.
One of the reasons Meta has been creating fake AI-based accounts is because so many people are doing this and they don't like it and want to make it look like their site is still active. Which is an excellent reason to delete your accounts, even if they weren't also doing a bunch of other heinous things.
And you can delete the apps from your phone. You should delete your accounts first though.
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If you’re still on those platforms, why would less censorship be the hill to die on?
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