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Not defending facebook, but almost every social site these days, and even SaaS applications, make it impossible to DELETE your account out of their systems.

Unless laws are passed in the US to force their hand, this sort of behaviour will continue.

Anything and everything you post on the internet, is FOREVER.

Because chances are some dev somewhere has simply flipped an IsDeleted bit to true / 1 in the site's database :)




The GDPR law in the EU allow us-companies to be fined: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2007530-how-the-eu-ca...




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