On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote:

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> On Oct 26, 2011, at 9:58 AM, David Alanis wrote:
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>> I am sure you know this, but there is no such thing as *deleting* your facebook account. I too went back and forth between canceling my account and signing back in as nothing happened, which is quite a nice *feature* that facebook provides.
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>> I guess it's just a matter of how much you really value your online privacy, and civil rights at that.
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> You can also download your entire account as a zip file. Mine, after 4+ years, is about 600MB.
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> Go to https://www.facebook.com/settings and click on the "Download a copy of your Facebook data." link at the bottom of the main part of the page.

Also if you are NOT using the secure version of Facebook for your day-to-day use of it I highly recommend you look into it. There are many unscrupulous people out there.

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Ryan