Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Facebook Instant Account Destruction, at Last

Wow.  I thought the day would never come.  Finally, Facebook is letting you delete your account and all information tracing back to it.  At the bottom of the deactivation screen is now a box in red which allows you permanently delete everything.  Which is the only option that Twitter offers, which I find annoying.

Anyway, I think this is a good thing because of all the privacy concerns surrounding this form of social media.  And because we all know how I feel about it.  I always wondered why Facebook never allowed that option; especially when people died et cetera.  But they do say that nothing's ever really erased from the Internet.  So this could just be a temporary thing. And what you posted and photos of you from your high school prom might still come back to haunt you later.

Here's the article- Gizmodo:

http://gizmodo.com/5597476/

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