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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] 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Revive and delete all media, then delete the account. In practice, it likely doesn't mean much, but it does technically mean you sort of "deny further permissions" to use the data you left there. Again, IRL they'll use it anyway.

Also, don't leave an account associated with your name there to possibly get hacked years from now and abuse any connections you have.

Also an option if it's not tied to your name, revive it and sell it. Aged accounts can be worth about $50+ to sell to scammers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Hmmm.

How about deleting old content and then filling the timeline with AI gibberish?

I don't have an account, and I'm not willing to create one just to do this, but it's a golden situation: use an account you're going to delete anyway to poison the well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Nice idea, but it'll get flagged if you do too much going back in time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

And? Are they going to take away my birthday? OP is already consisting just purging everything; it's not like they have much they can do but lock him out. And if all he leaves being is AI garbage, I don't see the downside.