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Comment by shurcooL | Hacker News Reader

For me, these are the biggest concerns that motivate me to consider deleting my account (which I don't use actively, only occasionally):

- Facebooks creates false endorsements for products from you to your friends without revealing this to you.

- Facebook filters out your posts based on whether or not people will use Facebook more if they don’t see it.

I don't mind/can put up with the rest, but those two things really bug me.

But my concern is that there are some people I would lose the ability to contact if I delete my fb. Maybe I should ask those people for their email, etc., then proceed.

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> Facebooks creates false endorsements for products from you to your friends without revealing this to you.

Not sure anything guarantees they'll stop doing this after you delete your account.. They knew your name before you created it, and they'll know it after you close it.

That's a good point, which further motivates the desire not to have an account or do anything to support the product.

While there are no guarantees, it still helps a little, since your endorsements are less likely to appear as genuine to those who know you're not on Facebook.

You can't delete your account. You can disable it, and the moment you log back it, it's as if you have never left.

You can delete your account... I had one that I requested deleted back in 2009, and then had "reason" to get back on, and when I created my new account my prior data from 2009- was not there.

Doesn't imply that they deleted your node from the graph, only that you created a new one that might have gotten linked to the first ("disabled") one.

You can remove it from public view and remove your ability to log into it, but you can't remove any data. Facebook was never designed to "delete" that data, hence all you can really do is permanently disable your account, with the illusion of having it deleted.

You definitely can:

https://www.facebook.com/help/250563911970368?helpref=hc_glo...

There used to be a two week period where it worked as you described, not sure if it's still in place.

Can't you export your contacts? Most of them come with the email too.

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