FTC approves job screening agency to archive all of Facebook...

Forbes via All Facebook ^ | 20May2011 | Publius

[Lexinom]

The FTC decided Social Intelligence complies with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the same set of rules that keeps your bill-payment records on file with the consumer bureaus for seven years, according to Forbes....... which is itself highly questionable, another tool facilitating the destruction of the middle class... to say nothing of use as a justification for usury...

[a fool in paradise]

You cannot delete a facebook account. You can take it offline, but as soon as you log back into FB, it’ll welcome you home. And all of your content is still uploaded there.

[upchuck]

If I see it degenerating, I will delete the account and call it a failed experiment.

Uh, you can't delete the account. Okay, I'm sorry. You can go through the mechanics of deleting the account. Except the account will still be there. Inaccessible, but still there.

Joining Facebook is kinda like checking into the Hotel California in the Eagles song:

Last thing I remember, I was running for the door, I had to find the passage back to the place I was before, "Relax," said the night man, "We are programmed to receive, You can check out anytime you like... but you can never leave"

Just one on many reasons Facebook is toxic.

[freedumb2003]

I deleted a F/B account.

I asked for it to be deleted, confirmed and never went back. You can Google, Yahoo, Dogpile, Bing, etc. (active and cache) and it just doesn’t exist.

But you need to never touch it again.

[freedumb2003]

>>Okay, I’m sorry. You can go through the mechanics of deleting the account. Except the account will still be there. Inaccessible, but still there.<<

Well, there are no data associated with it AND I will of course delete the underlying email account.

No data+no email account capable of catching SPAM=Pretty tiny footprint.

Even people who have NEVER signed onto the internet have an internet footprint. Just check that gawd-awful geneology site. They even list the SSNs of people who have passed away. Birth records are (except for the Kenyan Born) public records.

Better to actively manage it as best as you can...

[glorgau]

Like no one with a grudge might ever seek retaliation.

Better than living in fear. If someone really wants to get info on me, you, or most anyone it's pretty straightforward, cheap and fast these days.

[BuckeyeTexan]

My daughter has wanted a FB account for a few years now. She’s 15 and my answer is still “No.”

As of today, my answer is “When you turn 18 and are legally responsible for your social postings, go for it. Until then, ain’t no way in hell!”

[submarinerswife]

My Husband and I have never used Facebook.

My Husband and I will never use Facebook.

I just can’t wrap my head around posting your entire life for everyone to see.

[GOPsterinMA]

I understand.

But handing over everything on a silver platter doesn’t have sense to me.

[max americana]

>You folks think your anonymous hiding behind a screen name?<

I have nothing to hide, as my name is max americana...former boyfriend to 11 Victoria Secret supermodels, ex-secret agent and secret inventor of the Nascar block engine.

[balch3]

of course, it could be that I work in a circus..

[GOPsterinMA]

And “LinkedIn.com” is just as bad as FB.