February 13, 2008 (Computerworld) After a flood of highly publicized user complaints, Facebook Inc. this week moved to make it easier for users to permanently delete their accounts and all the content associated with them by posting instructions on its user help page.
Today, a user's profile and all information associated with it are made inaccessible to other users when an account is deactivated. However, Facebook has acknowledged on the user help page that it does save content from the profile -- such as user-generated data and photos -- on its servers in case users want to reactivate accounts.
Facebook posted the form for permanent account deactivation after it came under pressure from a Facebook group with more than 8,000 members that formed to support the need for an easy way to permanently delete profile information from the social network. The issue was also publicized in articles this week in The New York Times about users struggling to have Facebook profiles deleted.
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About time....
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