If Cambridge Analytica wasn't enough of a reason to leave Facebook, then you will probably continue using Facebook today even after reading this.

Facebook should have been shutdown then. Actually, it should have been shutdown even before then since the Edward Snowden leaks.

The actions of users (or lack of user actions) from back then have brought us to the issues of today. The information has been out there for over a decade.

You can't actually delete your Facebook account, though. They just mark it as deleted in the database, but can absolutely still use the information.

You all still have Facebook accounts???

The best time to delete your accounts was a decade ago. The second best time is today.

My friends created a FB account a long time ago, and I did end up using it briefly. I haven't logged into the account in probably 10 years and have no clue what my password is. Thoughts on whether I should bother giving Meta more personal information in order to try to log in & delete that account?

No it won’t. It will be the veneer. Like preserving the makeup and hair product but not the person it’s painted on.

I already assume everything I wrote on the Internet is eternal. Of course, data is free and people will use it for stupid stuff like this. This doesn't surprise me.

Still can't figure out why people started using that crap in the first place, didn't this seem really obvious?

In any case, that also means Instagram too, you know that right?

Deleted my account in Fall 2025 after +15 years. Felt good

I avoided that shitty website like the plague. Used a fake account to make an account for my quest 2, then used Oculess to cut it off from facebook forever, so I can just play my TeamBeef ports and indie vr games without big brother. Fuck facebook.

I saw a documentary about this. I think they called it Caprica.

I doubt it will come close to that, it would probably be a very bad copy. I doubt even the most facebook addicted person would put out enough information for the AI to make a good copy of them as a person. Their voice and face, yes, but I imagine talking to them would be just as infuriating as talking to an AI model of today.

Way ahead of ya, brother.

Deleted all my meta accounts a year ago. So happy to leave that cesspit behind

This is exactly why I've been recording personal logs and saving archives of all of my digital interactions for over a decade already. Going to make one of these for myself at some point using local models.

They laughed, called me mad. Well who's mad now?