I will probably post here a number of times with anti-Facebook sentiments, so I’ll kick-start the journey with a bang.
I was reading over Richard Stallman’s personal website (wikipedia biography), and I came across a few interesting articles about Facebook (under the heading “Don’t use Facebook,” in classic RMS style). The second is an article from the Summer of 2009, an interview with a Facebook employee who wished to remain anonymous, detailing how absolutely nothing is ever deleted, and everything—yes, everything—is recorded for future reference while using Facebook.
However interesting that article might be, it was the first article presented, published in The Guardian,that really caught my attention. It details the people behind Facebook. Not the engineers (however interesting they may be), but the board and financial backing for the social engineering website known as Facebook. It talks about their history, and some of the other very interesting things those people have great interest in. Their politics, if you will.
Read this article before going back to Facebook. There, I linked to it again. It’ll give you something to think about.
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Hey. I read your article about facebook in your homepage. I told it to a friend and he give me this link
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703
It is a open to the public facebook group named “How to permanently delete your facebook account.”
They say that you really can “delete” your account if you do the “extremely hard task” of do no action in your facebook account in some days. I am not a facebook user and I havn’t researched anything more, but I supose that what this group says is false. I ask you what do you think about this. If you are sure that it is false information I think that some one should change the content of this group because they are creating a false sense of security inside the people.
Facebook has a “never delete” policy aside from any user action. More information can be found at TheRumpus. I may have linked to this article before.
Even if you fulfill the “extremely hard task” of doing no action in your Facebook account for some days, the data is still not deleted, as explained in the post. Facebook’s policy is to retain all data, including data that has been “deleted” by the user. They have many reasons for this, both claimed and unclaimed publicly.