Delete your Facebook account

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[Frodge]

Location is always on. I know this because I almost never have location services on unless I’m using a mapping service. But every morning, I get in my car, and as soon as I start moving I get the message on the home screen “you will not get messages while your driving”. Surely speed and location is being tracked.

[Pez]

Glad to see I am not the only person with a bad view on FB. I have one but use it for cycling contacts and ride meet ups. I still get ads related to what I have searched and what my wife and I have talked about. Really considering going back to a flip phone.. There is entirely to much information shared through social media, much of it I don't believe is done with the approval of the poster.

To put some of it in perspective, I fell into a political group who liked to find people from riots (think Berkley) and using the help of others more technical than I where able to get names from just photos. Or news media would drop a name sometimes. It was then too easy for people like myself with little technical background to find FB accounts, Instagram, Tumblr and more. Once found that we were able to get where they worked, phone numbers, where they lived even. We could find details about their families or kids. It was scary what could be found within 30 minutes, all because people want to get more "likes" than the neighbor.
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[photogdave]

My wife just started a new job and they make you use Facebook to sign in and out for your shift and track your hours.
They didn't tell her this was the process in the interview.
I just about went through the roof because there are so many things wrong with this I don't even know where to start!
She's not as bothered as I am but I would have just turned on my heel and walked out the door.
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[Dwayne1m]

I'm not a big FB guy but my kids and Mom were talking about FB yesterday and my son said that FB is cracking down on questionable accounts and if you don't use your FB account for a certain time period, FB will disable it. My mom said it happened to her and she had to open a new account. Is this true? I rarely post anything on FB so is my account one that would be disabled?

[calvinater]

If it is disabled you the wont have to delete it
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[Beetlebaum]

I have grown to dislike and distrust Facebook and most "big data" companies. It's a shame that modernity has become so intertwined with these things.
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[67ctbug]

I have been DubWerks on Facebook for over a year, yesterday, they forcibly made me change my name (meaning no account access to do anything, not even close the account if I chose to) because they or someone else on FB thought it was questionable. I am a private person on social media and only use it for my YouTube channel. Why is it that every other social platform lets you pick a name, but Facebook needs your real name. Before being forced to change it, they wanted me to send them id; banking, birth certificate, etc to confirm if DubWerks was my name. Seriously, they aren't getting that info. This is absolutely ridiculous and I would have deleted my account if I didn't need it for sharing DubWerks videos and other things like that.

Rant over.
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[gt1953]

Don't have a Facebook account never had a Facebook account do not want a Facebook. From what I understand it is not a good thing over all for a person whom likes to be private.
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