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Facebook users flock to find delete instructions

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43 pointsoscardelben9 comments

As seen on Reddit, post something obscene as a profile pic, and they'll do it for you. Which I can't help finding brilliant.

Actually, I'd absolutely love to see it become viral; I wonder how FB would cope with having more dicks displayed by its users than chatroulette!

The data on related search terms "get facebook" and "sign up facebook" seems to suggest that the percentage of users seeking the way out doesn't change (supposing one can draw conclusions from these data anyway).

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=get%20facebook%2Cde...

Use https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_a... to permanently delete your facebook account

The interest has gone from 0 people in 2007 to 100 people in 2010?

(Yes, I know it is probably not 100, but how is one supposed to read those Google trends charts??)

Actually, it might be 14. If you look under the thing that says "Totals" with the thick blue line. I'm guessing.

No clue, but here's the explanation for Insights: http://www.google.com/support/insights//bin/answer.py?hl=en-...

Via that link, for tl;drs:

The numbers on the graph reflect how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. They don't represent absolute search volume numbers, because the data is normalized and presented on a scale from 0-100.

They scale by the top value, and they normalize. Which really means it just shows growth / shrinkage, no real volume can be extracted.

Starting to wonder if the media frenzy is partly a case of the media feeding the fire. I don't know many "normal" people who are "flocking to find delete instructions" yet.

Conspiracy theory time: News.com.au <= News Corporation => MySpace

I would love to see this Google chart's rising trend compared to Facebook's rising user base over the same period of time. This "flock" might turn out to be an insignificant and miniscule percentage of Facebook's 400 million plus pool of active users.

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