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Offline Fat Rat

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Re: Facetwit
« Reply #20 on: September 16, 2017, 20:25:17 »
Account deleted. It was so intrusive it was actually worse than my paranoia  :shock: I created an anonymous personal page with a yahoo email address, false name, date of birth and location. Despite that,  suggestions and connections Facebook was making clearly showed that it was looking at my contacts, my Linkedin account (work related) and my browser cache.

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Re: Facetwit
« Reply #21 on: September 16, 2017, 20:43:05 »
You've regained my respect  :thumb:
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Re: Facetwit
« Reply #22 on: September 16, 2017, 20:44:43 »
It didn't recommend Dwarf Goat related material did it?
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Re: Facetwit
« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2017, 21:38:28 »
They only look small from your lofty viewpoint.
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Re: Facetwit
« Reply #24 on: September 16, 2017, 21:45:40 »
It was the link to Midget Clown porn that finally convinced me they were snooping.
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Re: Facetwit
« Reply #25 on: September 16, 2017, 21:48:44 »
Quote from: Fat Rat on September 16, 2017, 20:25:17
Account deleted. ...
Ah, except accounts don't actually get deleted, do they? I'm sure I read somewhere that they're simply deactivated so that they can continue to mine data in case the user wants to re-activate their account.
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Re: Facetwit
« Reply #26 on: September 16, 2017, 21:59:33 »
Yes. That's why to truly delete your account you have to manually delete all your posts from your wall - although it would be impossible to delete every comment made on other peoples posts - then you can deactivate your account, yes it is still not actually deleted but at least it will be an empty shell.
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Re: Facetwit
« Reply #27 on: September 16, 2017, 22:20:56 »
This is message I received:

All of your account information and photos are scheduled to be permanently deleted. If you want to keep your account, please log into Facebook before Monday, 25 September 2017.
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Re: Facetwit
« Reply #28 on: September 20, 2017, 13:03:42 »
Surely if you need the word spreading, your legions on minions will gladly do that for you.





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Re: Facetwit
« Reply #29 on: September 28, 2017, 10:12:08 »
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Re: Facetwit
« Reply #30 on: September 28, 2017, 16:54:50 »
I don't do BBC either, But I guess they (Faceache) have a fairly comprehensive file on all their inmates, I guess they make their money selling your profile to advertisers.
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