Comments on: Facebook Privacy Follies Continue http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/11/18/facebook-privacy-follies-continue/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:30:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Andrew http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/11/18/facebook-privacy-follies-continue/comment-page-1/#comment-103048 Andrew Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:46:11 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/11/18/facebook-privacy-follies-continue/#comment-103048 "You would have to manually remove all of your friends, your associations, your pages and so on. And as the article states — for many people this could take days, or weeks." This wouldn't actually work: Facebook keeps track of changes you make to your profile, so even after you've deleted it from your profile, Facebook still has the information. At least that's my understanding of it. My friend received an email from Facebook explaining that if he wanted his personal data permanently deleted from Facebook, it was possible, but only if you request it. While this is good news, it's a lot of friggin red tape... “You would have to manually remove all of your friends, your associations, your pages and so on. And as the article states — for many people this could take days, or weeks.”

This wouldn’t actually work: Facebook keeps track of changes you make to your profile, so even after you’ve deleted it from your profile, Facebook still has the information. At least that’s my understanding of it.

My friend received an email from Facebook explaining that if he wanted his personal data permanently deleted from Facebook, it was possible, but only if you request it. While this is good news, it’s a lot of friggin red tape…

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