Is it actually possible to rid yourself of facebook
21 January 2012, 05:24 PM
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There have been many articles about this....
You would think that deleting your account from FB is the end...
Not so, FB holds all you data and will store it indefinatly....
the only true way to eliminate yourself from FB
is to delete every post, picture, commet from your wall or friends walls
then when you kill you account, there is no data to link to you
Mart
You would think that deleting your account from FB is the end...
Not so, FB holds all you data and will store it indefinatly....
the only true way to eliminate yourself from FB
is to delete every post, picture, commet from your wall or friends walls
then when you kill you account, there is no data to link to you
Mart
21 January 2012, 05:36 PM
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Twitter is terrible, I set up a twitter account, never posted a thing but wanted to use it for news etc, tried it for a few days and deleted my account, couldn't see the point was a terrible system
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21 January 2012, 05:46 PM
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Same here
And, I still get emails saying someone is following me, even though I deleted it all, or so I thought 
I find it amusing when someone like the moneybox man, Paul Lewis, says on Breakfast TV, he is "tweeting" his latest money advice
21 January 2012, 05:46 PM
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21 January 2012, 05:53 PM
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He probably means deleting the Facebook app from his Android phone. Well you're out of luck, thats the problem with an operating system that is so easily controlled, makes me laugh when people say Apple is controlling. Did you know that that app and others have permission to send and read your SMS messages and other nightmares, and you can't change it! So much for having control with Android.
21 January 2012, 05:57 PM
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I deleted every wall post and comment on my facebook since 2007 - it took ages. I had previously deactivated the account but wasnt happy with my info still being "out there"
Social networking is terrible.
Social networking is terrible.
21 January 2012, 05:59 PM
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He probably means deleting the Facebook app from his Android phone. Well you're out of luck, thats the problem with an operating system that is so easily controlled, makes me laugh when people say Apple is controlling. Did you know that that app and others have permission to send and read your SMS messages and other nightmares, and you can't change it! So much for having control with Android.
21 January 2012, 06:13 PM
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Im only really seriously interested from a banking / sharedealing perspective ,security wise - if as when this is ever going to happen with my bank.
i guess its the way of the modern world otherwise
i guess its the way of the modern world otherwise
21 January 2012, 08:27 PM
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He probably means deleting the Facebook app from his Android phone. Well you're out of luck, thats the problem with an operating system that is so easily controlled, makes me laugh when people say Apple is controlling. Did you know that that app and others have permission to send and read your SMS messages and other nightmares, and you can't change it! So much for having control with Android.
As for permissions, you don't have to install apps with these permissions if you're that paranoid. I guess with Apple you're quite happy that some automated process has "checked" the app for "security"? So you actually have no idea what that app can do on your phone?
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21 January 2012, 08:45 PM
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He probably means deleting the Facebook app from his Android phone. Well you're out of luck, thats the problem with an operating system that is so easily controlled, makes me laugh when people say Apple is controlling. Did you know that that app and others have permission to send and read your SMS messages and other nightmares, and you can't change it! So much for having control with Android.
21 January 2012, 09:17 PM
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21 January 2012, 11:28 PM
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I gave the correct answer, the app cannot be deleted, if it could the OP would not be here would he. Yes he can go somewhere and learn to hack his phone, which given his security concerns should raise an eyebrow. Using your logic if someone said "Is my Escort a Motorbike" the answer would be yes.