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Asking for advice: Very old abandoned Facebook account - revive and delete, or leave to rot? (beehaw.org)

submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a very old Facebook account i haven't touched for no less than 10+ years. I had decided to just let it decay under the reasoning that old data is worse than useless to them, but now in light of Facebook announcing they'll take it all to train for LLMs if you don't opt out, i am unsure if to continue leaving that account to rot, or if to recover it, opt out, then doing the delete procedure. What would you say is the best choice?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

edit: you never logged in in 10+ years? Unless you know there's sensitive stuff in there, leave it. You probably won't even be able to log in without going through major hoops.

I decided to actively delete my account a couple of years back. I did NOT want to scan my ID, as they demanded, but there were always other options. None of which appealed to me since they were clearly designed to get one last bit of valuable info for my shadow profile, but I went with the option to have 3 friends vouch for me.

After that I was told that it would take 30 days or so and trying to log in during that time would be interpreted as canceling my deletion. I never did.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

I've deleted my account like 4 times and if I try it now, untouched for 2 years since the last 'deletion' I bet it'll just log in.

So yeah if there's nothing sensitive just ignore it.