{"id":533,"date":"2013-04-08T01:55:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T01:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesixsides.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2018-03-12T20:15:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T20:15:44","slug":"deleting-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/08\/deleting-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Deleting Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people know about deactivating Facebook (and my experience without it<\/a>). What they don\u2019t know is how to permanently delete it<\/a>. On a help page, hidden away, they provide a link to delete all of your Facebook data if it\u2019s been deactivated for a few weeks. The other day I decided to take that plunge and totally get off Facebook. I started by downloading all of my data with their archiving tool, and then using a third party tool to download all the photos I\u2019m tagged in. Everything was all squared away, then, several things happened, making me almost forgetting why I was there.<\/p>\n

I have a friend studying abroad in London and having not talked to her for a while I struck up a small chat with her. The value of spontaneously communicating with a far off friend is invigorating, needless to say it was probably the last thing I expected to do when I woke up that morning. Suddenly I never wanted to leave Facebook again, the interaction was invaluable. While chatting away and browsing idly between messages something else happened.
\nI was bombarded by dozens of statuses and posted pictures on the Facebook wall. Not necessarily just from people I haven\u2019t seen in a long time, but people I recently broke up with, and even people I saw just yesterday. All this struck up a totally different flurry of emotions; not good feelings, a feeling that my life was not as great as theirs. The statuses were written in a voice that did not sound like the friend I actually associate with, there’s more bragging and facaded voices, never<\/em> negative. Then, in the pictures everyone was smiling and having fun parties, which I would never have been aware of otherwise. I didn\u2019t like any of it.<\/p>\n

Again, the only thing saving this experience was the conversation with the friend I was involved with. It was still the best set of words I have exchanged recently. As the conversation was coming to a close I decided not to permanently delete my data, just deactivate my account again (redeactivate?). I definitely still do not like Facebook, there will hopefully be a day when I can delete everything, by that time Facebook will be yesterday\u2019s MySpace and I won\u2019t lose too many contacts. Today even though I\u2019m not on Facebook, it\u2019s where at a moment\u2019s notice, all my friends are available for conversation, among other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people know about deactivating Facebook (and my experience without it). What they don\u2019t know is how to permanently delete it. On a help page, hidden away, they provide a link to delete all of your Facebook data if it\u2019s been deactivated for a few weeks. The other day I decided to take that plunge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}