Welcome to Hotel California

From the NY Times of 11 Feb 2008:

How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free
“It’s like the Hotel California,” said Nipon Das, 34, a director at a biotechnology consulting firm in Manhattan, who tried unsuccessfully to delete his account this fall. “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”

Ha ha ha ha - - - serves him right for getting on that stupid thing in the first place.

I had an account for a few months but I recently closed it and requested no emails etc and I've recieved none so far. They did send me a goodbye letter saying I could come back any time I like though. I assume if I ever decide to log in again it'll all still be there.

Facebook servers keep copies of the information in those accounts indefinitely.

To be fair, a lot of sites do that. At least, it seems like that to me.