I’ve always known that being a member of Facebook is a good way to leak personal information about yourself to those that can profit by it, so I’d removed things like full date-of-birth, information relating to family etc from my public profile.
A few months ago I cut it back even further, having noticed that even if the information is not public, you still pretty much give it away when you add a FB application, and there are so many of those - how many are scrupulous? Not to mention all the random people wanting to be your friend.
Leaving FB was not an option because the information was still kept - you simply suspend the account… until now.
Following the advice at El Reg, I have now deleted my FB account.
The response from FB:
We have deleted your profile information and removed your email address from our login database. Please let me know if you have further questions or concerns.
So that’s that then.
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