Deleting social media

[exploited]

I don't have a source, but does it really matter at this point?

Anyways, I'm trying to delete the content, but not profiles, of Facebook and Instagram. All likes, groups, pages, photos, reviews, etc. should be cleansed, but I need to maintain a personal account so I can manage various pages for organizations I'm involved with. Further, if I simply try to delete the accounts, these platforms create "ghost profiles," where I'll still have people tagging me, but without any control over what is associated with my name on social media.

The reality is that I'm quitting these platforms because I'm now sickened by them, and what they've done to our society, and how influential they've become. If it were possible for me to simply delete my account and all associated data, I would. But various professional/charitable obligations prevent me from doing so.

Further to the point, there is no mechanism to remove all content without deleting your entire profile. I've spent thirty minutes a night deleting posts and photos, etc., manually. I can't just mass select all photos or all posts and delete them, while also preventing Facebook from creating a ghost profile on me.

Even if I were want to just delete my profile without first removing all content associated with my name, I have to wait 30 days before that deletion actually happens. Which means, in the meantime, I can still be tagged by friends and what not. In my case, I've already removed all friends. But most don't have the time or care to do so.

There needs to be laws on the book about this.

If you submit data online, to a private platform, you should be able to delete it easily and without waiting. There should also be no requirement to maintain an "individual specific" profile.

[Winchester]

Can't you just delete your old accounts and make new ones to deal with your professional/charitable obligations?

Anywho only social media site I've ever been on was facebook and I deleted my account about 2 years ago.

[JockandBallTorture]

7.8 billion people on this rock.

you'll be bones and nothing anyway in a cosmically short amount of time.

your digital profiles are hardly a fart to be heard and smelt.

if you're gonna do some revolution shit

just do it

you finger banged your cousin and told myspace

that's actually endearing to have social flaws

but, if you were part of the cat haz cheezburger cringe

you ain't gon make a difference anyway.

the revolution was killed by memes

[Saz]

I agree, I would like to do the same but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this. My plan was to just download them both, delete the profile, and then make a new one. The one reason I'm reluctant to is because I don't want to remove all my friends etc, FB is still the best way to reach that random person you kinda know but obviously would never give/ask phone numbers (or phone number changed).

My alternative was just emailing FB and asking them how to do it, and then if/when they tell me they can't, forward to my congressman and the newspaper complaining.

[John Galt]

if you post something somewhere else owned by someone else you have now given it away. frankly the idea that you should be able to delete any of it, that "there ought to be a law" to allow such, is absurd. sure it's data about you but GDPR is ridiculous, especially in terms of items you willfully posted yourself with your consent since you did it. but even stuff without your consent it doesn't matter. you now have people demanding links about how they had affairs with underage people expunged from the internet, or to take down negative reviews against them as well. it's all f**k nonsense. you have no such right, suck it up buttercup

[Saz]

[exploited]

[John Galt]

They are extreme and outlandish and also actual examples

If you wrote letters to the editor you're saying it should be able to be deleted if you decide that you used to be even more of an idiot than you are right now? Naw, own up to it

[exploited]

They can already be deleted. What about this is hard to understand?

By making users manually delete each post or photo one-by-one, and requiring them to wait 30 days for account deletion, they are making it impossible to leave the platform or even maintain a trimmed-down profile (as I'm trying to do). As soon as a user deactivates the account, they start building ghost profiles.

It's bullshit bro. Obviously once something is on the internet, it's on the internet, but if you want to make billions off it, you have legal and contractual obligations to not pull this kind of bullshit. At least you would if they got treated like a publisher, which you directly compare them too ("letter to the editor"). But no, they are just a neutral "platform" that just happens to be serving up ads and content based on your personal preferences.

*2016*

f**k you Galt.

[JockandBallTorture]