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theironduke
Original Poster
6,195 posts
57 months
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Now I know PH is very anti FB and no doubt plenty of comments to that effect will follow, however... For those on FB who has deleted their a/c? I only ask as I just have. Signed up back in 2007 but of late i've just got sick of reading s  t posted by people i don't actually like. My "real" friends i see, speak to or text, sod anybody else to be honest! So has anybody else taken the plunge?
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Terminator X
2,121 posts
73 months
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Not possible, they keep your info until the sun implodes apparently.
TX.
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12gauge
1,274 posts
43 months
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Try posting a mildly racist joke.
Im sure they'll close your account in no time.
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ArtVandelay
5,730 posts
53 months
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I've just deactivated mine for similar reasons, sick of inane s t posted by myself as well as it others. It's not deleted though, I'll be back on when I get back from sea in July
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smartypants
17,358 posts
38 months
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I have deleted it twice for those reasons. But then needed it back again, mainly for spying purposes 
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TheEnd
12,088 posts
57 months
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Tubbytommy
417 posts
66 months
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12gauge said: Try posting a mildly racist joke.
Im sure they'll close your account in no time. Not happened to me yet and I've had some close to the mark jokes as statuses.
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12gauge
1,274 posts
43 months
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Tubbytommy said: Not happened to me yet and I've had some close to the mark jokes as statuses. They need to devise some kind of scale for people like me who havent received diversity training, and are unaware of what offends liberal sensibilities It could be called the Bernard Manning Scale. 
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aucklander
151 posts
19 months
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who forces you to read all of the s te that is posted? my browser is set up so it just goes to my profile page. that way i dont have to actively use it but can still get messages etc. ok i had to delete some prick today who kept sending invites for his socialist group protests but that was painless enough. seems a bit pointless to shut yourself completely out of the loop. often things like birthday invites get sent through there and so on. i know you are probably saying 'but if they are a good friend they will call me' which is true but often people dont. fb is now such a hub for people that other lines of communication can be overlooked. its kind of like linkedin, sure you probably will barely use it, but there will be a few occasions when people use it to get in contact when you are thankful you made the account.
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theironduke
Original Poster
6,195 posts
57 months
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aucklander said: who forces you to read all of the s te that is posted? my browser is set up so it just goes to my profile page. that way i dont have to actively use it but can still get messages etc. ok i had to delete some prick today who kept sending invites for his socialist group protests but that was painless enough. seems a bit pointless to shut yourself completely out of the loop. often things like birthday invites get sent through there and so on. i know you are probably saying 'but if they are a good friend they will call me' which is true but often people dont. fb is now such a hub for people that other lines of communication can be overlooked. its kind of like linkedin, sure you probably will barely use it, but there will be a few occasions when people use it to get in contact when you are thankful you made the account. Hmm, maybe see how i feel in a week, but right now, f k it. Survived without it before.
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scotty28
658 posts
69 months
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why not just delete the annoying people? or if you don't want to do that, just unsubscribe from them, then their posts wont fill up your wall with pish.
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M@verick
965 posts
80 months
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TheEnd said: Facebook is both useless and irritating. I thought I had deleted mine about two years ago (very glad I did, good riddance and not a single regret that I have done so) but i can see information remains online (maybe i have only deactivated it) so the link above is useful cheers, I will get on and do that pronto. R.
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PSBuckshot
4,641 posts
28 months
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I was going to 'clean mine up' on the weekend. Its full of tripe from people I used to go to school with but don't really class as my friends. FB is good, just not when you have idiots spamming it.
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funkyrobot
5,882 posts
97 months
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Originally signed up to faecesbook at the request of a friend. I trundled along on there for a few years, mainly using it to look at what others were doing (rather than posting my own stuff). I deleted my account yesterday as I didn't see the point in it anymore. I used to use it to wind some people up but they removed me in the end, so it got boring. It is such an odd system. I know of some people who use it to make things official. I.e. a friend of my OH has now 'officially' started seeing someone as she has updated her status to 'in a relationship'. I have also known it to cause hatred. A woman at work split up with her boyfriend. She was more angry with him removing her from his friend list than the actual separation. Mad!
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4keymonsta
3,916 posts
17 months
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Ive never understood the point of deleting it. If you decided that you didnt want to read the moronic stuff on PH would you delete this account? No, you would just not log in. If you dont want to use facebook, just log out and dont log in again.
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ewenm
24,448 posts
114 months
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So many of the usual "complaints" about Facebook are user stupidity, either through not understanding what they've signed up to (who really reads the T&Cs?) or through not understanding the customisation options available to them.
Remember: If it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product.
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Vieste
9,069 posts
29 months
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Terminator X said: Not possible, they keep your info until the sun implodes apparently.
TX. What he said.
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Life Saab Itch
34,059 posts
57 months
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TheEnd said: Brilliant, some of the links on there are quite funny, just going through the titles$ "how to delete a location from your timeline..."
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PHmember
1,774 posts
40 months
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Hey, here's an idea, why not just be friends with people on Facebook that you ARE ACTUALLY FRIENDS WITH IN REAL LIFE - not this bulls t 1000 friends crap, 95% of whom you have never met & never will meet.
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axgizmo
434 posts
22 months
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- How to Deal with Not Having a Facebook or MySpace
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah
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