The best advice I've ever read for the spouse who is on the receiving end of a divorce request/demand and wishes for reparation is to acquiesce quickly and approach the ordeal as a business transaction. You'll find story after story of anecdotes of that working to allow a couple to repair relations and figure out what was broken. Much better than being very emotional and otherwise reinforcing the reasons for the divorce request in the first place.
I think FB is being wise in taking this approach considering how difficult it is to find the real "delete" as opposed to "pause" button.
That's a lesson I've applied to many areas of business to very good outcomes -- customers wishing to terminate, etc.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know whether by "deleting" your account, facebook removes your account/data completely or do they just mark your account deleted?
Is facebook required to remove your account from all data sources ( dbs, failover sites, recovery sites and even the backup tapes )?
I know certain sites, when you "delete" your account, it just updates a column marking your account "deleted" or "inactive".
But I'm most curious about the backup tapes of logs/data.
This non-committal situation created some anxiety for me, it was a decision that still needed to be made in my mind so wouldn't go away.
Then Bryan Lunduke went through the process on his YouTube channel and he claims his contacts at Facebook were unable to find his data once it was deleted, so that was good enough to push me off the fence and I finally made the decision to delete.
I can never be absolutely certain but there's really not much more I can do besides use European privacy laws to try and force the issue, but that probably won't do much about the NSA backup. ;) But my mind is at rest now, I don't worry about it apart from doing my best to limit tracking online but that's another story.