"We have received a request to permanently delete your account. Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days.
If you did not request to permanently delete your account, follow this link to cancel this request:
Even if their backups hold my information forever, at least I'm not adding to it. The primary reason I left was because I was spending too much time looking at all my "friends" incredibly inane status updates and pictures. The vast majority of my "friends" never contacted me and of those who were genuinely my friends, I already have their email/phone number/see them regularly anyway.
It's been day two and I'm even more convinced it was the right thing:)
After deliberating for the last few months, I have just deleted my facebook account.
It feels very liberating. I'm looking forward to all the free time I will have. Looking at all the crap that your "friends" post is such a waste of time.
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I'm almost up to migrating 100 computers from XP to Windows 7 in our organisation.
Printer drivers are killing us :(
"We have received a request to permanently delete your account. Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days.
If you did not request to permanently delete your account, follow this link to cancel this request:
http://www.facebook.com/account_delete.php
Thanks,
The Facebook Team"
Even if their backups hold my information forever, at least I'm not adding to it. The primary reason I left was because I was spending too much time looking at all my "friends" incredibly inane status updates and pictures. The vast majority of my "friends" never contacted me and of those who were genuinely my friends, I already have their email/phone number/see them regularly anyway.
It's been day two and I'm even more convinced it was the right thing :)
I deleted my account yesterday. Feels great :)
After deliberating for the last few months, I have just deleted my facebook account.
It feels very liberating. I'm looking forward to all the free time I will have. Looking at all the crap that your "friends" post is such a waste of time.
Yay :)
One of the best posts on slashdot I have ever read. Kudos to you :)