{"id":137990265,"date":"2025-01-31T18:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T00:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/?p=137990265"},"modified":"2025-02-01T13:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T19:52:41","slug":"take-that-facebook-you-cant-have-my-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/take-that-facebook-you-cant-have-my-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Take That, Facebook! You Can’t Have My Content!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned a few times that I have deleted nearly 15 years of my posts on Facebook. A few friends asked me “How did you do that?” because the obvious answer would have been to delete my Facebook account entirely and leave it vulnerable to being hijacked by spammers and scammers and other miscreants that are so numerous on that, and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n

The slightly better answer, in short? It’s easy, but it is tedious and time-consuming. It’s something to do while you’re watching TV. Better than doomscrolling the moment you wake up. Probably not as effective as you might hope in preventing content misuse by Meta, since they don’t actually promise to honor your deletion request immediately, or after the 30-day “don’t you want to change your mind” period ends, or after the additional 90-day “we’ll get around to it if we feel like it” ends.<\/p>\n

Here are the relevant portions of Meta’s Terms of Service as they stand today, 1\/31\/2025<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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2. Permission to use content you create and share:<\/span> Specifically, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy<\/a> and application<\/a> settings)<\/span>. This means, for example, that if you share a photo on Facebook, you give us permission to store, copy, and share it with others (again, consistent with your settings) such as Meta Products or service providers that support those products and services. This license will end when your content is deleted from our systems.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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3. Deleting Your Content:<\/span> You can delete individual content you share, post, and upload at any time. In addition, all content posted to your personal account will be deleted if you delete your account. Learn more<\/a> about how to delete your account. Account deletion does not automatically delete content that you post as an admin of a page or content that you create collectively with other users, such as photos in Shared Albums which may continue to be visible to other album members.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It may take up to 90 days to delete content after we begin the account deletion process or receive a content deletion request.<\/span> If you send content to trash, the deletion process will automatically begin in 30 days unless you chose to delete the content sooner.<\/span> While the deletion process for such content is being undertaken, the content is no longer visible to other users. After the content is deleted, it may take us up to another 90 days to remove it from backups and disaster recovery systems.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Content will not be deleted within 90 days of the account deletion or content deletion process beginning in the following situations:<\/div>\n