Facebook Is A Downer

[John Sellers]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I disabled my account earlier today. The next step is complete deletion. I found a website to guide me.

I thought Frakbook only allowed account deactivation, not complete deletion.

This is the thing most webmasters don't think about. When a user deactivates, closes, or deletes his or her account, it should be totally erased from a given website's database upon cancellation leaving absolutely no trace. It's be as if that user had never registered at that website. This might mean that if a user decides to re-register an account, he or she will have to re-enter his or her info., but it also has the advantage of allowing the user to start fresh (like I'd like to do on PayPal, Google, Yahoo, and a bunch of other sites).

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by John Sellers

I thought Frakbook only allowed account deactivation, not complete deletion.

This is the thing most webmasters don't think about. When a user deactivates, closes, or deletes his or her account, it should be totally erased from a given website's database upon cancellation leaving absolutely no trace. It's be as if that user had never registered at that website. This might mean that if a user decides to re-register an account, he or she will have to re-enter his or her info., but it also has the advantage of allowing the user to start fresh (like I'd like to do on PayPal, Google, Yahoo, and a bunch of other sites).

John, I found information on deletion at this site:

http://www.techhive.com/article/2050...k-account.html

I don't know how thorough it is, but if you want to go back to facebook you are starting from scratch with the deletion. I can still go back and regain my account with deactivating...but I don't know if I want to.

[Perry Winkle]

I deleted my Facebook account maybe 2 years ago. Couldn't have made a better decision. I wish my wife would kill her account. She spends anywhere from 1 hour to all damn day on it.

[John Sellers]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

John, I found information on deletion at this site:

http://www.techhive.com/article/2050...k-account.html

I don't know how thorough it is, but if you want to go back to facebook you are starting from scratch with the deletion.

Thanx, but no thanx. I don't care for the way Frakbook works.

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by John Sellers

Thanx, but no thanx. I don't care for the way Frakbook works.

You were saying you didnt think you could delete an account, in response to me saying i might delete my account. I was sharing where i found the information about deleting.

Note to self: no matter what he calls himself...John/Dracks/Drax/Datalyss/Mortal Sphincter will always be annoying.

[John Sellers]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

You were saying you didnt think you could delete an account, in response to me saying i might delete my account. I was sharing where i found the information about deleting.

Sorry. I shoulda been clearer. I meant thanks for the link, but I'm not interested in Frakbook one bit. I just wanted to know how you did it cuz I knew users could de-activate their account, but not delete it completely.

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

No matter what he calls himself, John/Dracks/Drax/Datalyss/Mortal Sphincter/Thanatos/Zorak/Ferdibrand Gamgee/Johnny Cripple/Gorum will always be annoying.

Thanks, I try.

[monster]

Originally Posted by John Sellers

This is the thing most webmasters don't think about. When a user deactivates, closes, or deletes his or her account, it should be totally erased from a given website's database upon cancellation leaving absolutely no trace. It's be as if that user had never registered at that website. This might mean that if a user decides to re-register an account, he or she will have to re-enter his or her info., but it also has the advantage of allowing the user to start fresh (like I'd like to do on PayPal, Google, Yahoo, and a bunch of other sites).

Maybe they do think about it (most of them are pretty smart). Maybe they know there are trolls/attention hos out there who get off on flouncing off demanding to be deleted or creating new accounts when they have run out of tricks, and the webmasters want to give the other users the option to call them out on their BS when the come back anew?