Facebook Adding Advertisements to Personal News Feeds

[zombiesinc]

Just another reason to avoid using Facebook anymore than I currently do. The only reason I even keep my account is because I have all of my family and past friends on there. I mean, we don't even keep in touch, but the repercussions aren't worth it.

 

[Jack Rascal]

I really don't know why i still have a Facebook account. I signed up in its early days, when I lived outside my home country and wanted to stay in touch with friends. Well, that didn't really work and I still don't visit that site more than once in a couple of months. The email address I have saved there is my "spam" mail so I don't even receive the notifications to my normal email.

All I really do there is change the privacy settings every time I hear they have changed something. I really should just delete my account...

As for the news, nope, not too happy about the idea. Even though I only occasionally check my account, I think the idea is just horrid. Yes, it will start with one ad a day, but then it gets to two and eventually every second post is an ad (sorry, "story"). Why would they say no to money? And I am not a fan of anything that remembers your browsing history or spews ad's to my friends based on what I like.

Delete is a strong word when used in connotation to facebook. seeing as anything you ever post there is owned by facebook until the end of time. You "deactivate" your facebook. If you turn it off for a year and sign on one day, guess what its all still there just how you left it. So remember kiddies when your posting those really funny pics from that weekend after finals at the bar....you know the ones you dont remember taking. They are owned by a foreign entity that you have no control over as long as you both shall live. You didn't see the ring Zuckerberg slipped on your hand? Neither did I. :/

Oh how right you are... I never upload any pictures there (apart from the three I've used as profile pics) and in all honesty, it actually pisses me off when people post pictures of me on their account. I have set my account so that people will not see pictures that I've been tagged in. Not a big help, but does make me feel better, if only a little. Luckily the pictures I'm in are not "the worst kind"

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Isn't it possible to "delete" your facebook account by individually deleting every post, photo, etc. you've put up?

 

[CapitalistPig]

Isn't it possible to "delete" your facebook account by individually deleting every post, photo, etc. you've put up?

Nope. You don't own it, They do. They keep it all. Anything you've ever posted is stored on their dedicated servers.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Isn't it possible to "delete" your facebook account by individually deleting every post, photo, etc. you've put up?

Nope. You don't own it, They do. They keep it all. Anything you've ever posted is stored on their dedicated servers.

You can delete it through pretty arduous means. Even then if you even accidentally establish connection in the next two weeks it restores.