Facebook.

Here is the shortcut link to the official page.

A deceased member's account can be

Facebook launders toxicity. It's and

Revoking permissions makes it easy to spot which apps rely on your Facebook account. These can then be fixed, avoiding future access issues.

Your account will be for one month (it was ). After this period it will be permanently deleted. You have plenty of time to change your mind.

Do not sign in to your account during this time unless you wish to cancel the deletion request.

Don't be fooled into a deactivation request.

In theory, deleting your account removes all Facebook data related to you. In reality it's taking about 90 days.

with National Security Agency surveillance and multiple data-privacy breaches suggest that your data may never truly be deleted.

before deletion if you'd like a copy.

You can still cleanse your Facebook presence for everyone else,

• Delete any sensitive content that you have posted.
• Contact friends about content that you would like deleted.

As hard as you try, some personally identifiable information may remain. This could be something as simple as your name on a message,

You have little control over this or what others share about you in future. The most you can realistically do is to respect your privacy.

Data shared with apps and advertisers is with them forever. As a Facebook user you are leaving behind a valuable personal data footprint.

Facebook can track non-users via the ‘like’ button and other similar means. You can minimise this and protect your privacy.

• Switch to a privacy focused browser like or try a in your favourite.
• Use a non-tracking search engine like
• Try a secure messaging app. is a great choice.

You should rethink your relationship with and

Facebook owns WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus and can share data between these and its own products e.g. Messenger.

Keep this in mind when using their apps. Here are the deletion links.

• account.

Facebook was founded in 2004. Their leadership has had well over a decade to learn from their privacy blunders. They have consistently failed to reign in their greed.

‘Demanding privacy from surveillance capitalists … is like asking … a giraffe to shorten its neck, or a cow to give up chewing. These demands are existential threats that violate the basic mechanisms of the entity's survival.’ - Shoshana Zuboff.

Need reminding why you left?

Whatever your opinion on Facebook's policies, the company's choices impact society worldwide.

Free speech is not the same as paid speech.

Paid political ads and similar topics need immediate discussion and serious regulation. These systems are currently broken and open to international abuse by malicious actors with sufficient funds.

Facebook continues to dominate. It's important to consider their future.

‘And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ -

If you produce content on the web, you can make a massive difference.

• Remove Facebook trackers/widgets e.g. ‘pixel’ and ‘like’ buttons. Use a instead.
• Avoid Facebook Connect for sign in.
• Reduce Facebook technology dependency. can help.

for helping Facebook secretly track your web browsing.

This ethical approach would make it difficult for Facebook to track users around the web. App developers,

I try to keep this site factual. Occasional interviews capture a more personal view.

‘Your data is very valuable to Facebook so they employ every possible pattern that they can get away with to keep it’ -

‘While I'm not suggesting that Facebook is absolutely corrupt, it's easy to see how an institution with that much power and reach would inevitably operate under people who don't necessarily have the best intentions’ -

The following links are to fake stories… obviously?

• ‘You're Deleting Your Account? We'll be sad to see you go,’ says Facebook prompt showing user
• As a Facebook employee, I was ordered to bury thousands of stories about Mark Zuckerberg's
• Mark Zuckerberg recalls coming up with after seeing Dopamine-addicted lab rat starve to death.

• (Edgar Alvarez, Input).
• (Kara Swisher, New York Times).
• (Jacob Silverman, CJR).
• (L. Franceschi-Bicchierai, Vice).
• (The Shovel).
• (J. Fergus, Input).
• (Aaron Sankin, The Markup).
• (Judd Legum, Popular Information).
• (Matthew Wille, Input).
• (Shoshana Wodinsky, Gizmodo).
• (Ryan Mac, Buzzfeed).
• (Charlie Osborne, Zero Day).
• (AG Letitia James).
• (Zack Whittaker, TechCrunch).
• (Brian Fung, CNN).
• (Sam Biddle, The Intercept).
• (Chris Hughes, New York Times).
• (Carole Cadwalladr, TED).
• (Alfred Ng, CNET).
• (Brian Krebs).
• (Michael Grothaus, Fast Company).
• (Josh Constine, TechCrunch).
• (Merrill, Tobin, ProPublica).
• (Gabriel Weinberg, CNBC).
• (Kashmir Hill, Gizmodo).
• (DHH, Signal v. Noise).
• (Will Oremus, Slate).
• (Edgar Alvarez, Engadget).
• (Frenkel et al, New York Times).
• (Parmy Olson, Forbes).
• (BBC).
• (Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian).
• (Ian Bogost, The Atlantic).
• (Joanna Stern, The Wall Street Journal).
• (Violet Blue, Engadget).
• (NBC News).
• (Sandy Parakilas, The New York Times).
• (Joe Miller, BBC).
• (James Vincent, The Verge).
• (Jack Marshall, Wall Street Journal).
• (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing).
• (Farai Chideya, The Intercept).
• (James Vincent, The Verge).
• (Sam Fiorella, Huffington Post).
• (Julia Angwin, Pro Publica).
• (Cotton Delo, Advertising Age).
• (Lisa O'Carroll, The Guardian).
• (Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian).
• (Lauren Hockenson, GigaOM).
• (Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch).
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