aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, February 11, 2008

On deleting your Facebook profile

It’s easier than you might think. An email statement from Brandee Barker at Facebook in response to my post last night reacting to the piece in the NYTimes:

“There are two different ways to remove your information from Facebook.  The first is to deactivate an account. Once a user deactivates the account, his or her profile becomes inaccessible on the main Facebook service, and the data is kept by Facebook only to allow easy reactivation. The second option is to delete the profile altogether. When a user deletes his or her profile, personal information—such as name and all email addresses associated with the account—is deleted from Facebook servers.  If a user decides to join Facebook again, he or she would need to create a new profile. We are working to better explain the simple deactivation process, and to ease the deletion process for those who want their personal information removed from our servers.  Additional information can be found on the Facebook help page at http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=5”

Next thing you know we’ll learn that Mark Zuckerberg makes a habit of going to restaurants with his girlfriend.