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Facebook Adds Delete Account Option

roseability writes "Facebook have quietly added the ability to delete you account. 'Deactivate Account', under Account Setting, has become 'Deactivate or Delete Account', and when checked it purports to permanently delete your account and all information you have shared. Facebook is actually willing to erase your data permanently? They must be counting on very few people doing so." Mixed reports on this: perhaps this is a limited test?

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  1. Reality still wins. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well that took long enough. Real life's had this ever since cyanide.

    1. Re:Reality still wins. by YourExperiment · · Score: 2, Funny

      You only see it if you're logged in. Duh.

    2. Re:Reality still wins. by morgauxo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not really. Cyanide is no guarantee that your body won't get stuffed and put on display in a museum for generations to look at.

  2. it's only one line of code, after all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    typedef DeactivateAccount DeleteAccount;

  3. Re:Doesn't Matter by sakdoctor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn right!

    I won't be satisfied until the delete button releases nanites which crawl into the backups, and REALLY delete my profile.

  4. Re:If this would allow us to get rid of... by AHuxley · · Score: 3, Funny

    Facebook have got her down as dormanted, Yahoo have got her down as deleted,
    Twitter have got her down as inoperative... Microsoft has her down as excised,
    Apple have her down as completed

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  5. Re:A strange game... by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, he compared it to tic-tac-toe.

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  6. Re:Troll? by Idbar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Registered slashdot users also tend not to be complete morons

    Do you also have the "Apple" section blocked?

  7. Re:I'm not into Facebook - yet! What am I missing? by mjm1231 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, in fairness, most people are quite youthful at the time of their nativity.

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  8. Re:Troll? by wyoung76 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Registered slashdot users also tend not to be complete morons

    Do you also have the "Apple" section blocked?

    There's an "Apple" section??? Never noticed...

  9. Re:Doesn't Matter by JorDan+Clock · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe if his wife was really ugly...

  10. Re:Troll? by Jon+Adbott · · Score: 5, Funny

    Disregard that! I suck cocks!

  11. Re:If this would allow us to get rid of... by kundziad · · Score: 2, Funny

    They could add a "Report a dead user" button...