I deleted my Facebook account once, then went back. All my stuff was still there. You can try all you want, they have it, and your data is more valuable to them than regulatory compliance can ever touch. Your data is out there, and it will never be deleted.

The only way damage you could possibly do would be to download your own copy of your profile data. Then (and this would only work en masse), place it under something like a creative commons license. This might seem counterintuitive, but facebook is selling your data. This way, they lose the profit of selling it in addition to any advantage they would have from hosting it.

For a time, sharing ideas on the internet required critical thinking. Then, under the impetus of monetization, the tools of widespread collaboration were rendered passively accessible to the technically illiterate. Thus, the apes heard the echoes of their bellows returning from the ether, accepting such as affirmations of their delusions.

The worst was on stumbleupon when I would click “stumble” twice and see the most interesting page ever just to have it replaced with the next stumble. Then if you try to go back, it stumbles again… truly gone forever.

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