Who is going to delete their Facebook account ?

Never had one. Cant understand why someone wants all and sundry to know what they are doing or who they are. Stupid to  let crooks know your on holiday and house empty etc.  Its bad enough that your data is being harvested by organisations without allowing some get rich firm to sell it, serves them right.  Why does CC need to have a facebook page when they have their own site. How sure are those hooked to it that the club has also not sold their data!!

I have a Facebook account, with only my name visible. I can keep up to date with our Australian cousins and their extended family, old college friends (and wonder where I went wrong when I'm not gadding all over the world like some of them), etc.

I also belong to some closed groups re local history and genealogy. The one re our nearest town is very active with discussions and photographs from way back when. 

I follow singers/bands that I am interested in (and find out about upcoming gigs - booked on yesterday that I wouldn't have heard about yet).

Plus I am a member of a couple of closed "fan forums".

If anyone want to follow me, they have to ask.

I have a FB account, and keep my privacy settings to only my friends, and info that is there is fictitious anyway. I only have friends that I trust, and use it mainly for information forums.  I never put information of when i'm away etc as that's my business, and "Careless talk cost lives" come to mind.

The government and whoever wants to now about you don't need facebook or other media to do it. Everything you do is now computer based, pension, driving license, passport, bank accounts. 

I don't need or like Facebook, it was so easy to permanently remove the account and the application from my Laptop and PC. 

K

You can't remove anything from the web, whatever you use it for it remains somewhere. 

But you have only removed the Application from your devices. Anything previously submitted still exists.

I tried to edit this post, but the site threw a wobbler.

I meant to add - 

Am I worried? Am I going to delete my account? No.

The user and all related content has been Deleted User

Please don't believe that deleting your account at Facebook actually removes your information. It just means that YOU cannot access it. It is still there, as well as all the information that Facebook has gathered on you that you did not know about.  It can be accessed by others, such as hackers, and Facebook themselves for whatever purpose they want.

Don't have a Facebook account?  That has not stopped them gathering information on you.

The dye is cast!!

"The government and whoever wants to now about you don't need facebook or other media to do it. Everything you do is now computer based, pension, driving license, passport, bank accounts."

Yet still you have fill in the same old information every time. Any sort of renewal should only be asking "has anything changed?"